re: The Internet of Things...

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the new oral b electric toothbrush has bluetooth :nopunintended:

i want to laugh at the ridiculousness of this..but then realized i could use this to tell how long my kids are brushing their teeth and what nights they went to bed without brushing.

then i was like hmmmmm, here's a solution for a problem i didn't know i had until presented with the solution.

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This is usually exactly why we see these "trivial" additions to things. People always just try to say they want to track them somehow or that it's useless. If there wasn't some person who had the issue and thought it'd be a good addition, it'd have never even been put in in the first place. If people weren't using it, they wouldn't waste the cost of putting it in there.

I wrote an app for fun to keep track of things in the refrigerator for my roommate and I. When you put in or take out something (for example, a beer), you just hit the plus or minus button, and if someone else is looking at it on their phone, they'll know what they have. It keeps track of when milk and eggs go bad as well and notifies you beforehand. It obviously sucks to start putting stuff in there for the first time, but it wasn't meant to be really complex anyway. My roommate was like "I don't think I'll ever use that. There's no reason to." Now, he uses that shite way more than I do. Every time he goes grocery shopping, he tells me how badass it is to be able to see what's in the fridge from the store to know what he needs.

Such a stupid, trivial little idea that took very little time to implement, and it ended up being incredibly useful.