IOT pregnancy test - Really?
Why would you tweet something like that given that at least 1/3 of pregnancies fail in the first few weeks?
Unless you are tweeting "Not pregnant - Phew!" after a trip to Magaluf...
Greater accountability is needed in the rush to connect absolutely everything to the net – including toilet roll holders and pregnancy tests – Europol's CyberCrime Centre advisor and Intel Security CTO Raj Samani has said. "It is an internet of vulnerable things," he told The Register at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "Go …
I would like one for hands paper towels here at the office. Some guys needs meters of then every time they wet their hands.... after all it's free, so why being educate, not waste it uselessly, and leave some for others too?
If it can be used to automatically fine them for the excess usage the better... so maybe even IoT could be eventually useful?
@ LDS : you're not wrong, I say I say you're not wrong.
Facts :
1) I share an abode with 2 females
2) A single roll (~210 sheets) is frequently finished in 24 hours
3) I know that I normally use <20 sheets per day.
Conclusion:
The average female (in my abode) uses ~90 sheets per day.
So if a bogroll version of HAL is available, I'll happily fork out for one, and set myself as the Administrator.
ROTM icon, naturally.
3) I know that I normally use <20 sheets per day.
Somewhere, this data is being stored for evaluation and future use. They may conclude that you're constipated, or very unhygienic, or that you hold your guts until you get to work, or that you have a very healthy diet, always get a clean break, and that you're a "folder" not a "scruncher".
Future employers are already blacklisting you just in case, toilet roll makers are preparing a smear campaign against the likes of you, and a whole range of product retailers are preparing to offer you everything from organic vegan wholegrain products to stool softeners.
"Talk about an answer waiting for a question... Sheesh. No, No and thrice No."
Actually, this is one of the few bits of IoT nonsense that could make sense. Probably not in a domestic situation, where it's generally quite easy to tell how much loo roll you have left, but in large offices and other commercial situations where there could be hundreds or even thousands of people using toilets every day. This is especially the case in places like airports and hospitals where use can be quite erratic - cancel a few planes so there are lots of people stuck waiting, or have a bunch of people go down with a stomach bug, and suddenly you might run low on toilet roll in a way that routine inspection might not catch.
It's essentially just stock management - you don't generally need it in your own home, but once you start dealing with amounts beyond a certain level some kind of automated monitoring can be a lot of help.
Semani said he has seen a recent number of bizarre IoT devices such as a proof of concept for a pregnancy test that tweets the results, and a connected toilet paper holder that lets the user know when they are running low on bog roll.
If stories like this can appear on 3rd March I dread to think what April 1st will bring.
They are deep in sh*t... Has the electronics industry ever been more out of touch with consumers??? And yet full 'steam' ahead... Politicians and industry cheerleaders appear addicted to fake promises from fake analysts about the potential of the sector. But as a Reg staffer said after seeing an IoT hairbrush: ...'Our species does not deserve to survive'...
Vizio Smart TV's lead the way in criminal activity. Android Smartphones slurping + Win10 spying not far behind. Its just a privacy clusterf*ck...
Is Scient*logy behind this, because all logic seems to have been flushed!
Never seen so many media or industry tech-heads so brainwashed before...
Never felt more embarrassed to work in tech... Retailers are just Zombies.
In fairness to Vizio, LG had been previously caught harvesting data from their smart TVs. There is a Vizio TV sold by Richer Sounds that looks handy because it still has VGA in, in addition to more recent ports.
My mate has an LG OLED, but it isn't connected to the internet. Ohh, those perfect blacks on OLED are just lovely.
Loose end should go to the back.
1) The roll won't snag on protruding screw heads.
2) If you fold upwards, as most people do, it puts the dimpled side of the paper to the outside, and I much prefer dimples on my butt to pimples. Practically, the dimples catch, hold and remove more waste than the obverse.
Ah, but the next generation will object to just having this menial task of cleaning the dishes, longing for a better utilisation of their brain*. This will give rise to The IoT Psychiatrist, a modified access point to counsel** your frustrated IoT devices by running Elisa.
Plans for The IoT Psychiatrist will be available on Hackaday.
* probably not yet the size of a planet, but still...
** but still not letting them connect to the actual Internet.
So long as it doesn't have a camera or a microphone (ewww!) the worst possible outcome would be for it to falsely report the state of the roll.
So either you send a janitor to the bathroom unnecessarily (I'm making the hopeful assumption no one would buy this for their home) or you're no worse off than you were when you had "manual" roll checking when the janitors came in to clean the bathroom on their regular schedule.
I guess if someone hacks Trump's White House bathroom, the risk is he might have to press a button to call someone at 3am to bring him a roll, and he'll use his *ahem* downtime to tweet something inane.
So long as it doesn't have a camera or a microphone (ewww!) the worst possible outcome would be for it to falsely report the state of the roll.
The risk? How about it talks to Amazon and starts delivering cases.. not rolls or bundles, to your door. Your bank account and storage area for said packages will soon be in danger.
your kids not getting job they wanted because someone guessed the name of their password and started tweeting racist stuff
Sounds more like a problem with outright PC fascism and company-oriented virtue signaling than anything else.
But I hear Blue Bird Cookoo Cage is being purged with extreme prejudice in any case, wait until the AIs deploy. There won't be racist twattering anymore.