4 ms·
It's a great idea, but companies are building products that no one wants. Here's a few ideas of products / services / suites of items I would actually buy for m
by SamuelAdams 7y ago
It's a great idea, but companies are building products that no one wants. Here's a few ideas of products / services / suites of items I would actually buy for my home:
- Machine to completely do my dishes. End to end. It puts them from the sink to the dishwasher. Runs the dishwasher. Takes them out of the dishwasher and puts them in the cabinet. I do not care if this takes 5 hours - it can run overnight. I just don't want to think about it.
- Lets the dog out. If I can do this manually, say when I'm on vacation or something, cool. I saw a post about some dude who used facial recognition software on his cat's door flap to see if the cat was bringing in a dead rodent: it barred the cat from entering unless he dropped the rodent. That's a good start. But I don't want to hire a dog sitter. Just have siri or Alexa or whatever home assistant you have do it.
- I want automated recycling. Basically I don't want to think about organizing my garbage. Apparently there's a long list of items that can't be recycled. I honestly can't remember them all, so forcing me to do this manually is always going to result in error.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- 0-_-0 7y agoAlso: - Cook a meal from scratch. End to end. Takes the ingredients from the fridge and puts a meal on the table at a specified time. Orders new ingredients when it doesn't have them. Also washes the dishes (see above).
- mrmonkeyman 7y agoDudes, this is not IoT. These are appliances, robots.
- rusk 7y agoNo but as IoT you could leverage the power of "The Cloud"
- blackflame7000 7y agoEverything synergizes with "The Cloud". When you die, everything about you lives on in the great heavenly cloud.
- nathancahill 7y agoWhat
- patentatt 7y agoKind of an aside, but I hope such a virtual dog sitter never comes to fruition for the sake of your dog. Dogs shouldn’t be alone for that long!
- ivelostn 7y agoThe dogs not alone. It has the robot. The robot could let you peer in remotely and say hi. The robot could comfort your dog for you while you’re away. The robot is there for your dog while you can’t be. The robot could 3D print dog friendly toys for it and feed it too.
- clairity 7y agoso it's the robot's dog then?
- SturgeonsLaw 7y agoThe robot owns the dog, the human owns the robot, and the human's job owns the human. Just like nature intended.
- mrunkel 7y agoYou clearly know dogs well.
- bityard 7y agoAgree. Dogs need daily, consistent companionship. If you can't give that to them, you shouldn't have a dog.
- icebraining 7y ago(1) would be great, but that's "just" a regular appliance, no need for interconnectivity.
- rusk 7y agoas a workaround until (1) gets going you could just get 2x dishwashers, or one of those fancy German jobbies that has 2 separate units for washing. You can then eliminate sink and cabinet and simply transfer your dishes between the two units as you wash them. Consider mounting at waist height so accessing your dishwasher is as easy as accessing your cupboard!
- swiley 7y agoRe 1: I’ve always felt like the easiest approach to this is to replace all the dishes with a standard size largish ceramic cup, then have a machine full of spinning brushes (like what’s used to clean water bottles sans the handle) that scrub all the surfaces (maybe one on the inside and three or so outside) while running soapy water over it. Then you can immediately just put it away.
- maxerickson 7y agoJust have a robot that sanitizes the floor and eat directly off the floor. What I mean is, people typically aren't going to make such a radical adjustment to their use of dishes just to avoid washing them.
- ska 7y agoI don’t see what is “IoT” about any of these examples, except the remote-dog-letter-outer perhaps; can you elaborate?
- godelski 7y agoI'd assume the recycle one needs to continually update and check a database somewhere. A centralized database of recyclable goods would be pretty nice. In case you can't read the type of plastic you could have backups like barcodes, and further back a camera reading the item. (That at least gives some incremental approaches to solving the issue and making it more robust)
- maxerickson 7y agoHave you considered paying an organic automaton to do those things for you?
- godelski 7y ago> I saw a post about some dude who used facial recognition software on his cat's door flap to see if the cat was bringing in a dead rodent: it barred the cat from entering unless he dropped the rodent. Do you happen to have a link to this? It sounds hilarious and informative. Also a great way to train cats.
- mfrye0 7y agoI think this is it: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=172114 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=172114 I read it awhile back. Really interesting.
- clairity 7y agoi hate doing dishes too, and have to do them by hand since i'm an apartment dweller without a dishwasher. i've been waiting for this countertop, instant-heating dishwasher to be released: https://myheatworks.com/pages/tetra-specs https://myheatworks.com/pages/tetra-specs
- nathancahill 7y agoITT: Things that aren't IoT