What's the dumbest thing you could sense and connect to the internet?

For the vanity concious, a "does my bum look big in this sensor" which could send a response to the users smart phone. A feature would be to scan the codes on clothing to save people trying things on. Obviously the key technological issue with this particular item would be making a case robust enough to survive being droppd out of a 20 story window, run over by a car or drowned in fish tank.

I think a sensor in a chair that says whether you are sitting or standing and display the information on a website would be a pretty useless.

Another extremely useless sensor is a sensor that senses if it is a sensor or not (which it obviously is) and displays the fact that is absolutely a sensor (albeit one that only senses itself as a sensor).

There's only one answer to program: "of course not, dear"

There's only one answer to program: "of course not, dear"

or alternatively ... "I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself"

As I am typing this I can hear, somewhere in the distance, a burglar alarm that has been sounding on and off for over 2 hours, apart from the annoyance to people trying to get an afternoon nap, it has as far as I can tell been ignored. Therefore I suggest that this alarm and many others should be connected to the Internet so that it can be ignored by millions of people around the world.

BTW it's not yet time for my afternoon nap.

is a sensor that senses if it is a sensor or not

reminds me of Blade Runner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPyRSURYFQ

and more surprisingly.

https://www.quora.com/Was-Deckard-a-replicant-in-Blade-Runner

Didn't see that one.

Mark

mcb1 wrote:

 

There's only one answer to program: "of course not, dear"

or alternatively ... "I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself"

...  to me you look wonderful whatever you wear, but I can't comment on what other people may think.

Perhaps a random selection from those three, here's something similar I wrote just the other week.

case "BUMP": {
                if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
                    this.player.play("./audio/Bump.wav");
                } else {
                    this.player.play("./audio/Oops.wav");
}

Andy Clark (Workshopshed) wrote:

 

For the vanity concious, a "does my bum look big in this sensor" which could send a response to the users smart phone. A feature would be to scan the codes on clothing to save people trying things on. Obviously the key technological issue with this particular item would be making a case robust enough to survive being droppd out of a 20 story window, run over by a car or drowned in fish tank.

Admit it Andy, you so want to make this for yourself

According to my boss I need a sarcasm detector, that filters my outbound emails.