The Internet of Things that constantly break
Oct01
This morning, I was late for work because my alarm didn’t go off. The problem? It couldn’t connect to the WiFi, so the device turned into a glorified paperweight instead. The best part was the push notification I received in the middle of the night and only saw this morning — “please connect your Sense to the internet, we lost your WiFi credentials!” There’s so much hype about the Internet of Things replacing our humble, disconnected gadgets right now, but few people talking about what that looks like in practice: many internet-connected devices can be kind of shitty at times. Errr… okay Just last…
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