Twitter Reacts to Airbnb Guest’s Malfunctioning Smart Fridge That Won’t Stop Making Fart Sounds

Get ready, everyone: the future is now, and it’s full of faulty ‘smart’ devices. Technology has brought the human race some wonderful advancements over the years, but not everybody would agree that AI-driven appliances are one of them. While these inventions are apparently advancing at lightning speed, they have a funny habit of doing things …
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Stupid Smart Devices That Exemplify Why Connecting Everything to the Internet Is a Bad Idea

Decades ago, the more optimistic futurists probably thought that we’d eventually be living on space settlements in a scarcity-free utopia where robots do all the work for us and no one wants for anything. Few predicted that the future would look more like accepting «terms and conditions» before ordering a cheeseburger at the drive-thru, or …
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Dystopian Times Connecting Objects to the Internet Went Extremely Wrong

While it is true that a home that calibrates its vibe to your liking as soon as you walk in the door sounds like a cool, futuristic detail from a Philip K. Dick story, but in reality it looks like a refrigerator that blue-screens every time you try to open it and shower that forces …
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Dystopian Times Connecting Objects to the Internet Went Very, Very Wrong

While it is true that a home that calibrates its vibe to your liking as soon as you walk in the door sounds like a cool, futuristic detail from a Philip K. Dick story, but in reality it looks like a refrigerator that blue-screens every time you try to open it and shower that forces …
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Ridiculous Times ‘Smart Devices’ Were Laughably Dumb

They say capitalism breeds innovation, but the need to spend extra time answering your smart dishwasher’s product survey in order for the thing to function hardly feels «innovative.» They say artificial intelligence is going to replace humans, but a pathetic little robot that needs a human to help it out of the snow doesn’t seem …
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Dystopian Times Connecting Objects to the Internet Went Wrong

While it is true that a home that calibrates its vibe to your liking as soon as you walk in the door sounds like a cool, futuristic detail from a Philip K. Dick story, but in reality it looks like a refrigerator that blue-screens every time you try to open it and shower that forces …
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Compelling Reasons Connecting Everything to the Internet is a Mistake

Ever look around and get the sense that we’re living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it’s cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the ‘Internet of Things’ has gone too damn far. Once you start …
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20+ Times ‘Smart Devices’ Were Laughably Dumb

They say capitalism breeds innovation, but the need to spend extra time answering your smart dishwasher’s product survey in order for the thing to function hardly feels «innovative.» They say artificial intelligence is going to replace humans, but a pathetic little robot that needs a human to help it out of the snow doesn’t seem …
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People Are Bewildered by TikToker’s Excessive Smart Home Gadgets

While I’m still sweeping my kitchen floor with a basic, dollar-store broom, some gadget-obsessed people out there are living in futuristic ‘smart homes’ where devices have their own devices. TikTok account @shopping666 advertises a vast array of absurdly specific household gadgets through a series of videos in which people demonstrate the usefulness of the products …
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30+ Times Connecting Objects to the Internet Went Wrong

A home that calibrates its vibe to your liking as soon as you walk in the door sounds like a cool, futuristic detail from a Philip K. Dick story, but in reality it looks like a refrigerator that blue-screens every time you try to open it and shower that forces you to watch three commercials …
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