It looks like it's time to oil your bike chain. Would you like to 1) check warranty instructions 2) just oil it already and/or 3) check if the kids' bikes need attention? A new mobile app called Qipp aims to help you organise your life by putting all of your possessions into a database. You enter details of your things such …

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Monday 10th February 2014 12:34 GMT Livlondon

Great

So I either live on my knees in servitude to the whims of my bike, vacuum, etc.. or die on my feet battling in obviously impending 'Internet Rise of Things.'

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1. Monday 10th February 2014 12:37 GMT vonBureck
  
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  Or you die on your knees milking your snake, it seems.
  
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  1. Monday 10th February 2014 13:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    @vonBureck
    
    Brilliant!
    
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  2. Monday 10th February 2014 13:37 GMT Toromoloscu
    
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    >Or you die on your knees milking your snake, it seems.
    
    Is this a euphanism?
    
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    1. Monday 10th February 2014 13:42 GMT Anonymous Custard
      
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      No, that'd be on your knees milking someone elses snake...
      
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      1. Monday 10th February 2014 13:56 GMT vonBureck
        
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        Either way, not something you'd need (or want) you phone to remind you of.
        
        Wonder if you have to tag your snake before you can milk it, though...
        
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        Tuesday 11th February 2014 02:01 GMT Trevor_Pott
        
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        Tag the enclosure.
        
        "Change UVB bulb on snake tank every 6 months."
        
        "Drop in frozen pinkie every 10 days."
        
        "Change substrate every 10 days (offset by 4 from pinkie addition)."
        
        "Milk snake every 21 days."
        
        "Begin the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism when $_tag_Austin_Powers is in range."
        
        It all seems rational to me.
        
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Monday 10th February 2014 12:57 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson

It may remind me to install a back-up personality in all the doors with a GPP feature. I am getting sick of their cheerful and sunny disposition and the intolerable air of smugness they generate when they are about to open.

OK, time for me coat it seems

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Monday 10th February 2014 13:11 GMT Heisenberg

Where's the advantage?

If I need to oil the chain on my bike, I know this because my bike has started squeaking. If my snake needs to be milked I kind of have a way of knowing that too. What is the advantage of entering these items in to an app which will then just arbitrarily tell me something needs doing, whether or not it be true?

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1. Monday 10th February 2014 13:20 GMT Richard Taylor 2
  
  Re: Where's the advantage?
  
  But have you thought that it might well be of advantage to many commercial customers for this data to know what you have, age, potential replacement window - or in the case of more actively entrepreneurial businessmen, a shopping list from your house?
  
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2. Monday 10th February 2014 13:53 GMT 's water music
  
  Re: Where's the advantage?
  
  If I can schedule reminders for all of the low level maintenance tasks that need doing around the house then I free myself up to milk my snake all day without the rest of my life falling apart. Qipp get to sell my data to tissue vendors.
  
  Everyone wins.
  
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Monday 10th February 2014 15:20 GMT Simon Rockman

If I remember correctly Cobras only need miking every three days.

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Monday 10th February 2014 17:15 GMT Anonymous Coward

So they've invented a scheduling app with alarms. Wow. Technology is marvellous.

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Tuesday 11th February 2014 01:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

Old school burglary brought into the 21st century...

In the old days, burglars would nick your telly and more or less throw it away because what they actually want to steal is the brand-new, shiny replacement courtesy of the insurance company.

Now with this app they can hack in and save that tiresome first step.

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