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It had to come, didn't it? You knew I'd get round to iKettle - The connected kitchen - a new way to start your day Smarter[^]
Yes. It's a kettle. Bit more, so much more. You can turn it on remotely, and monitor how boiled it is. So you can make tea at home while you are in the office!
Well ... no. You can't. You can boil the water, but you have to actually walk to the kitchen and pour the water into something and stand around like a nana trying to find an app that tells you when your tea / coffee is brewed.
So what exactly do you save for your £130? Sod all that I can see ...
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Be in bed, boil water, get out of bed, immediately pour water and make some tea.
No standing around for a few minutes waiting for your water to boil.
They aren't exaggerating when they say "seriously ramp up your daily routine!", SERIOUS business indeed!
This is, without a doubt, the best invention since sliced bread!
May I suggest a new calendar using BiK and AiK (Before and After iKettle)? 
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Provided you have iFillTheDamnThing alarms set to remind you to add water before you go to sleep.
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OriginalGriff wrote: iFillTheDamnThing alarms
That's an add-on, you'll have to pay extra 
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Bloody DLC!
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Sander Rossel wrote:
No standing around for a few minutes waiting for your water to boil.
That's what going to the washroom first second thing in the morning is for.
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I thought in Wales you'd just leave it outside, bound to rain sometime during the day (and night). After that you only need to train the cat to drag it inside.
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It took me long enough to teach the cat "Sit!"
And Herself doesn't let him out at night: he has to timeshare his territory with his worst enemy (Cookie from next door), so he gets the morning shift, and she gets the afternoon. That way we all avoid vet bills ...
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Aha, this proves that my decision to revert from a smartphone(*) ( which I had for maybe 3 months ) back to a folding model "old people" phone, yes: with big buttons, was the smart thing to do. I don't need to bother with all this smartphone mumbo jumbo because my perfectly capable "granddad" mobile phone can't deal with it. Hooray for that!
(*) I dumped it because the stupid device, which was running android 6, could not perform its wake up function with any more accuracy better than 0...+5 minutes with respect to the set time. For crying out loud; if you can't do that these days why do you even bother putting the damn thing on the market.
Sometimes I like being an old fart as once in a while it does make perfect sense.
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fd9750 wrote: Sometimes I like being an old fart as once in a while it does make perfect sense.
Sadly "senior moments" are underrated, for mine a damn useful tool one should always bring along.
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But, it is high tech and expensive therefore it must be better than an ordinary kettle. Or so folk with more money than sense will think. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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6 months, 6 reviews - this baby is going viral!
Whilst I generally regard myself as being easy to please, I'm just not quite as easily pleased as this reviewer:
Quote: I enjoy waking up and switching the ikettle on with my phone
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I also enjoy waking up - it's way better than the alternative - but the kettle isn't the first thing that crosses my mind. Maybe about fifth or so, as part of the "I NEED CAFFEINE" phase of my morning rituals.
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My kettle can often lie around unused for several weeks at a time as I gave up the caffeine many years ago. I'm just wondering though, if I did get an iKettle, whether I would gleefully wake up every day and turn the thing on with my 'phone just for the sheer thrill of it.
I'm rather suspecting that I wouldn't.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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20 ... 10 ... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
Launch looked good ... passed Max-Q ... 2 mins in, 8 to go ... 70Km ... separation ... 120Km, 6700 Km/h,
And the Beeb cuts from that to blabber about sod all ... 
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didn't see it, but am I right in guessing they couldn't wait any longer to get in some words from some "experts?"
you know, like when they rip off youtube cat videos and turn it into a TV show: MUST have "experts" (even if unrelated fields) commenting on each clip to make it ummm, "BBC worthy?")
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It is privatized now (space travel that is), which also means that everyone and their grandma is going to try to make money off this somehow, some way, especially when we start sending people up consistently.
Then everyone will be an expert. 
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Reading the SpaceFlightNow post[^], and others, I'm always awestruck (emphasis on "awe") on how much testing, retesting, tweaking, re-retesting, etc., goes into all of the various bits and pieces.
Quote: “We’re going to test its navigation capabilities, we’re going to test avionics, telemetry, we’re going to test the reaction control system, its ability to dock, its ability to re-enter,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
And that's just the high level bits (probably leaving out a bunch of stuff too.)
This stuff puts my unit tests (when I even have them) not to shame, but, well, into perspective.
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ST(r)EAM => STEAM
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... Yeah. Maybe it's ...[^] 
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She's a dedicated follower of fashion...kinks?
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