Ok, don’t know about you’ll but I find the idea of a mattress send messages to smart phones when it detects sex being performed on it REALLY CREAPY!
Depends, if you’re away on business and you get a message …
Picture your mattress getting hacked and sharing that message with everyone in your contact list…
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Don’t even care about that, but what about when you are in the middle of a messy divorce only to find out the thing malfunctioned…
Even worse … picture your mattress getting hacked and having nothing to share 
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Same story, different magazine
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Possible outcomes…
• Your cheating partner sees that advertisement (which would be impossible to miss). Your cheating partner now knows to not have sex on a mattress that essentially has a giant neon sign on it. Your cheating partner goes on cheating. You just wasted a large chunk of money on a mediocre mattress.
• Your large dog, who is “trained” to never get on the bed but is actually smart and just waits until you leave, triggers a false positive. In the best case, lawyers are involved. In the worst case, a gun is involved. All because your dog is smart and you are a suspicious idiot.
• Your cheating partner actually uses the mattress. Now what? “Mattress motion data” is certainly not admissible in court. You don’t gain anything in the divorce settlement. You know for certain that you cannot trust your partner. But you already did not trust your partner. The net result is that you wasted a large chunk of money on a mediocre mattress.
Thomas Tusser nailed it.
The most serious problem from a hacker is knowing if you are or are not home. Normal sleep time? No motion on the mattress? Time for a robbery.
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the current generation has the mindset of “there should be an app for that” or “you could put a chip in it” or worse “we can require and IR reader for everything”
Some things should be left alone
You can provide all the safety classes and training (and apps) - and it still won’t cure “smart” people from doing stupid things.
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It’s even sillier when you realize most apps promoted by service providers just act as a front end for their website, conveniently doing a worse job than a browser in the process.
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ROFL
truer words have never been spoken written.
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I am more worried about all these “NEST” products.
What if they malfunction? Maybe having your house cool down to 40, or heat to 100 is not a big deal, but if the NEST smoke detector or CO2 detector freeze up and don’t alert you while you are sleeping, THAT could be a bad deal…
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There have been a few instances of them failing to work in critically cold environments…
People in California tend to think of environmental control as a luxury, but if your heat quits working in Minnesota, your pipes freeze
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What in the world is this thread even?
Are you guys out of things to talk about? This is the apex of discussion on this board? Cherry picking stupid ideas and criticizing them?
Come on people!
Same stuff we’d BS about in person…
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Henrik,
The current generation of “smart” people and their stupid ideas or “answers” create many things to talk about - either on here as Walter posted or from others in this post or as Jast said - typical conversation in a Makerspace or other environment. definitely not “cherry picking” - not need for that - as the market produces many stupid ideas/items on a near daily basis.
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Can you say “pet rock”? $15 from any of those little gift stores? What was it PT Barnum said? “There’s one (a fool) born every minute!”
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