Typically smart buttons cost £40, but the Amazon Dash Button costs a fiver. With a little tinkering and subversion, Amazon Dash can power anything from smart bulbs to alerts on your family’s smartphones to logging your billable hours.
The Internet of Things has two flaws: the name, and the need to get your phone out of your pocket, unlock it, swipe to the appropriate app, and wait for the app to load before you can do perform a basic task, such as turning on a light. Buttons are handy for a reason: they’re exactly where they need to be, and you can just press them. So if we’re going to have smart things, we need smart buttons.
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