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    #11
    <rant>
    I find this IoT thing complete bollocks.
    If I walk into a room, I don't want the kettle to boil (I've been away for a month and it's full of green stuff or worse, it's empty - bang!), I don't want the tv to switch to my favourite station (Oops, sorry Vicar), I don't want the stereo to play my favourite music (It's ******* three am), or the lights to switch on (Oooh! Naked!), or off(Owww). The cooker doesn't need to cook my favourite meal(OK, it can't), the fridge doesn't need to bleat that there's something off in there (three am again).

    The majority of it is thought up by grown-up kids playing 'wouldn't it be great if.....' without thinking out a proper business case, use cases, the possible unintended consequences.

    It's like walking into a bar and the barman has already poured 'my' pint. I really hate that.

    </rant>
    Worst thing is, I'm working on IoT stuff.......

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      #12
      Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
      All the decades of design innovation and the decide to make the first Wi-Fi kettle the worst looking pile of crap I think I've ever seen. That gonna put off even the tech geeks surely.
      If you weren't such a good looking bastard yourself, i'd have told you to feck off. However, there is this as an alternative:

      another kettle

      At the end of the day, it's a kettle - if you stuck a pair of tits on it then you'd never get SWMBO to make you a brew

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        #13
        Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
        If you weren't such a good looking bastard yourself, i'd have told you to feck off. However, there is this as an alternative:

        another kettle

        At the end of the day, it's a kettle - if you stuck a pair of tits on it then you'd never get SWMBO to make you a brew
        I'd burn me feckin hands on it all the time as well!!
        'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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          #14
          I had one of these for nearly forty years.

          The Secret History Of: The Russell Hobbs K2 kettle - Interiors - Property - The Independent

          ..until the wife dropped it.
          It's still in my list of things to fix, just a little seam weld and it'll be good as new.

          - that and a firmware upgrade....

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            #15
            Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
            I'd burn me feckin hands on it all the time as well!!
            If that's all you burnt then i'd say it was a result.

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              #16
              THE Kettle

              Quite possibly the best looking kettle...ever

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                #17
                Originally posted by Goatfell View Post
                Quite possibly the best looking kettle...ever
                Amazon selling them for 170 quid as well.. Very nice.
                'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by RSoles View Post
                  I find this IoT thing complete bollocks.
                  IoT isn't about fridges. Idiot.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Goatfell View Post
                    Quite possibly the best looking kettle...ever
                    God, if that's good looking, I'd hate to see your missus

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Goatfell View Post
                      Quite possibly the best looking kettle...ever
                      each to their own..
                      Growing old is mandatory
                      Growing up is optional

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