Eshan Maitra
Cool new gadgets are always hitting the market. Including attractive house-gadgets to make your house more efficient, hence to make them “Smarter”. But bad news for you who always wanted to buy that doorbell with internet-connected camera. Last time a disappointed victim of this product wrote on Quartz.com how annoying it was. It just stopped working, even manually, cause the camera couldn’t be connected with the WiFi. Nick Bilton at the New York Times reported about his Nest thermostat that, one night it’s battery died and froze his house. Arlo Gilbert, the CEO of Televerojust went furious over the news when Revolv discontinued their service on Nest server via TechCrunch. Since, this smart device connects doors and electric switches with his phone. Picture yourself you can’t you are locked inside your own house cause some website is down. What if, it was connected to your toilet and you just took a shit? What if the flush was connected as well?
Many of these stuffs are being introduced daily with the smart controlling functions with internet. Such as stove or basins. What if some bug occurs when you are not around and causes an accident?What if there was no manual option? It is just better to stay away from these kind of devices that are still being tested and has constant complaints about them. Also the reasons why these gadgets often getting discontinued and rarely making profit in the market. Don’t hustle up to make your house smarter. In arecently deleted Reddit post byan employee from Nest (A leading smart house-appliance innovators) hewrote, things are so bad and Tony Fadell(Their boss) is so toxic that, people “fall asleep in corners and cry in the bathrooms.”