Well, clearly it should have an accompanying mobile phone app. Those are clearly going to stand the test of time and be picked up by generations to come for pur

Well, clearly it should have an accompanying mobile phone app. Those are clearly going to stand the test of time and be picked up by generations to come for pure enjoyment. Sarcasm aside, this is the fundamental issue of software enhanced or required real world objects. Ten years ago the words "get the app" on some thingy-wazoo in a store basically screamed "won't work in about 4 years". I don't see how IoT will ever really take off without some form of stabilized long term interfaces, and you'd think basic IoT interfaces and support would have coalesced but... no. Now that I have a kid, I look at toys in the amount of years they can provide fun, constructive or otherwise, and reflect on the toys I used to have. Legos, hot wheels cars, and stuffed animals are basically the top three. Everything else is basically junk.