In terms of milestones in human development, I would definitely rate the connected tea kettle up there with cars, computers, and robots.
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Review: Heat Water for Tea From Afar With the iPhone-Connected iKettle 3.0
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In terms of milestones in human development, I would definitely rate the connected tea kettle up there with cars, computers, and robots.
Mad conventional tea kettles do that already, they attack by spilling hot water on the owner.
Social collapse is closer than many think. Things like Black Lives Matter, the digging up and in some case fabricating all these sexual harassment allegations, are bits of evidence that we as a country are no longer working for the common good.
In many ways I actually believe the Norks could do the USA a big favor by nuking a few select cities in this country. Cities are where the dis-functionality issues from and a few million dead, in one or more or the more dis-functional cities, would cause people to wake up and work together.
Now you’ve got an iPhone, HomeKit, Raspberry Pi, HomeBridge, WiFi router and some glue code to run house current through a resistor to heat water...
Rube Goldberg would be so proud!
Now you just need to figure out how to cloud host this...
Now you’ve got an iPhone, HomeKit, Raspberry Pi, HomeBridge, WiFi router and some glue code to run house current through a resistor to heat water...
Rube Goldberg would be so proud!
Now you just need to figure out how to cloud host this...
Are you kidding, I’m working on a way to have Control Center brought up and have the relevant buttons pressed so my coffee is ready for me waking up.
All I need is a Newton’s cradle, some twine, a model train, a stylus, a gun, some dominos, a kitchen scale and a rooster.
I’ll soon have it ready
I plug my phone into a charger each night and turn it off.
Being British the first thing I do in the morning is brew a cuppa. What I need is a kettle that turns my phone on.
Being British the first thing I do in the morning is brew a cuppa. What I need is a kettle that turns my phone on.
So it essentially forced a change of habit? I don’t even think about my kettle unless I’m about to make a brew.
German here: Our family actually uses an old-fashioned tea kettle on the stove. (The whistling kind.) It‘s cheaper to use than an electric kettle, since the stove runs on gas, and the whistle is practical if you’re not in the kitchen when the water gets to a boil.
I usually poo-poo this kind of thing, but dang, I actually need this. I keep turning on the heat and forgetting about it. I used to solve that by keeping it near my desk, but a few accidents changed that. "pssh- Bomb has been planted -pssh" *kicks over 1 liter of boiling water under the desk*
... Eh, nvm. I could just set a timer. Don't need more stuff lying around my house.
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... Eh, nvm. I could just set a timer. Don't need more stuff lying around my house.
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The stove uses gas, which is a lot cheaper. But no, most use electric heaters.
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Touché.
I'm not going to come down on any particular side, but I certainly agree that there's been an increase in civil unrest of late. I was actually being pretty generous with my 80-year timeline.
On the other hand, as the author of Ecclesiastes writes, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
I understand what you're saying, but I cannot agree, and I don't know if you truly feel that way either. Unfortunately, the "if only this, then that" sentiment is all too common in our species. Who is to be the judge of such things?
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
“I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
“No, no,” said Scrooge. “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.”
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
“Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
“I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
“No, no,” said Scrooge. “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.”
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
“Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
For when you weren't going to walk over and make tea in the first place, now you can not walk over and heat up the water.
Perfect for when you aren't ever going to walk over and pour the tea into your cup.
Perfect for when you aren't ever going to walk over and pour the tea into your cup.
It didn’t FORCE a change of habit, since you can use it like a “dumb” electric kettle.
But like programmable coffee makers that give you the option of setting everything up the night before, there is now an opportunity to proactively choose to perform the task before going to bed, if that’s a better choice for you.
Yeah, that's the biggest reason I can see myself buying one. It's just, I don't feel like having more tech to maintain :/
What a crock of racist, sexist, bigoted medieval crap! Obviously the Enlightenment, modernity, civil rights, and social justice just passed your lonely two neurons by, causing no friction whatsoever betwixt. You must be a total riotous hoot at your peasant Klan parties...
“Working for the common good”... You mean generations of black slaves and brown immigrants being abused so you can cling on to your self-righteous, hypocritical privilege? Don’t tell me that white folks built this country — had that been the case, there would have been absolutely NO need for tens of millions of slaves or undocumented workers busting their backs picking your cotton/fruit/veggies or building the infrastructure.
If this country will ever collapse is because of narrow-minded pseudo-patriots like you who actually would welcome the nuking of American cities, just as you undoubtedly continue to fellate Putin, your dear puppet-master.
Ooh, sorry to go off topic but - that Cuisinart kettle looks like it’d be a nice Christmas gift for a tea drinker!
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Me. Every day. The less I have to do in the morning the less chance of waking up my family.
That said this is a stupid product. Even with my habits.
Can confirm. Mine was a Christmas gift a few years back. It's a great idea for someone who likes green, white, or oolong tea since you don't want to use boiling water with those.
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You'd probably need to compensate for this manually by adjusting the temperatures you set. There are no built-in high elevation settings.
