I love tech, I love gadgets, our smart home is full to the brim with automation and information-gathering. So I’m a full-blooded nerd for 45yrs now.
But this? This and cars is where I draw the line. What could possibly be one single tiny benefit of having a toaster like that? Is there even one? I couldn’t find one. Except that there’s a cool display on it that can’t serve any useful info.
I have no smart home stuff and don’t want any, but I could see it sense who is using and what is put in… then from that set your personal perfect toast setting.
Local smart home I should’ve added. No cloud shit.
Who is using it? Who cares? 😁
Perfect setting…hmm…yes, maybe, with many people using it and everyone likes it different.
But I’m sure there are toasters with like custom presets without all this.
I dunno even, I rarely eat toast 😐
I can actually see the value in screens / Internet access on a lot of devices.
On a refrigerator? That’s great. Especially if there are cameras inside and it scans things as you put them inside. Then you could have your fridge show you items that were going to expire within a few days so you’d know to use them. You could check with the fridge while you were shopping and it could tell you if you needed to buy more milk. You could even have the fridge start your shopping list for you based on what items you used and how frequently you used them.
Naturally, I’d want control over this process and it would need privacy protections. But, with all that it could be really useful. $100 in electronics would probably pay for itself in under a year just by letting you use things before they went bad, and preventing you from overbuying.
A smart thermostat / heat pump / air conditioner makes sense. A smart oven is a bit more dangerous but could be useful. Smart lighting is a great idea. But, a smart toaster with Internet connectivity? Are we really expecting innovations in the millennia-old technology of “bread” that requires a firmware update? Do you need to be informed that your toast is done while you’re not at home? Or do you need to get your toast started early so it’s ready exactly as you get home, rather than having to start it after you arrive?
Aye. Same here.
Also, that “get toast done right the moment you get home” can also be done with a tiny smart-switch. Wouldn’t need a firmware-updating computer for that :)
I love tech, I love gadgets, our smart home is full to the brim with automation and information-gathering. So I’m a full-blooded nerd for 45yrs now.
But this? This and cars is where I draw the line. What could possibly be one single tiny benefit of having a toaster like that? Is there even one? I couldn’t find one. Except that there’s a cool display on it that can’t serve any useful info.
I have no smart home stuff and don’t want any, but I could see it sense who is using and what is put in… then from that set your personal perfect toast setting.
Local smart home I should’ve added. No cloud shit.
Who is using it? Who cares? 😁 Perfect setting…hmm…yes, maybe, with many people using it and everyone likes it different. But I’m sure there are toasters with like custom presets without all this. I dunno even, I rarely eat toast 😐
That could be done with separate buttons. Indeed I believe I had one with different settings at one point but I only ever used the one.
I can actually see the value in screens / Internet access on a lot of devices.
On a refrigerator? That’s great. Especially if there are cameras inside and it scans things as you put them inside. Then you could have your fridge show you items that were going to expire within a few days so you’d know to use them. You could check with the fridge while you were shopping and it could tell you if you needed to buy more milk. You could even have the fridge start your shopping list for you based on what items you used and how frequently you used them.
Naturally, I’d want control over this process and it would need privacy protections. But, with all that it could be really useful. $100 in electronics would probably pay for itself in under a year just by letting you use things before they went bad, and preventing you from overbuying.
A smart thermostat / heat pump / air conditioner makes sense. A smart oven is a bit more dangerous but could be useful. Smart lighting is a great idea. But, a smart toaster with Internet connectivity? Are we really expecting innovations in the millennia-old technology of “bread” that requires a firmware update? Do you need to be informed that your toast is done while you’re not at home? Or do you need to get your toast started early so it’s ready exactly as you get home, rather than having to start it after you arrive?
Aye. Same here. Also, that “get toast done right the moment you get home” can also be done with a tiny smart-switch. Wouldn’t need a firmware-updating computer for that :)