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English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on from the all-things-wifi-enabled dept.

All data specialist Mark Rittman wanted was a cup of tea from his all new Wi-Fi kettle. Little did he know that the thing would take 11 hours for that. The issue, in the case of Rittman was, that the base station was not able to communicate with the kettle itself. According to The Guardian: A key problem seemed to be that Rittman's kettle didn't come with software that would easily allow integration with other devices in his home, including Amazon Echo, which, like Apple's Siri, allows users to tell connected smart devices what to do. So Rittman was trying to build the integration functionality himself. Then, after 11 hours, a breakthrough: the kettle started responding to voice control.

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  1. The worst part by Shane_Optima · · Score: 5, Funny

    The worst part was the liquid it ended up producing was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

    1. Re:The worst part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, that's not the worst part. The worst part is his kettle is now completely pwned and mining bit coins for ISIS.

    2. Re:The worst part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought it was that his kettle unexpectedly transformed into a whale.

    3. Re:The worst part by David_Hart · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought it was that his kettle unexpectedly transformed into a whale.

      Oh No..... Not again.....

    4. Re:The worst part by fluffernutter · · Score: 3, Funny

      More depressing than Marvin.

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    5. Re:The worst part by tomhath · · Score: 4, Funny

      the kettle started responding to voice control.

      And the kettle responded by calling the pot black.

  2. What. The. Fuck. by jenningsthecat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously? I'm not sure what has me more gobsmacked - the fact that somebody would make a WiFi kettle, or the fact that anybody would actually BUY the fucking thing and burn 11 hours of his life trying to make it work. "Yes, I willingly wasted 11 hours of time, plus however much time I had to work to pay for it, on a kettle, just so I could connect it to the Interwebs! Isn't that cool?"

    Soon we'll be hearing stories about people being DDOS'd and spammed by their own appliances, and I will laugh heartily.

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  3. Wrong tool for the job by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldda got a Galaxy Note 7. Heats up shit quick.

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  4. Re:More accurate headline? by CODiNE · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must have very thin fish.

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