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Amazon Dash buttons were the ultimate single purpose networked device; it really can’t get much simpler than a push button that sends a single message to a fixed endpoint. It was an experiment in ultimate convenience, an entry point to a connected home, and a target for critics of consumerism …read more
Continue reading Orphaned Amazon Dash Buttons Ripe For Hacking
Amazon’s Dash Buttons are useful little devices, that let you automatically order a wide variety of common household goods at the press of a button. They’re cheap and wireless and readily available, and that makes them ripe for hacking. In just this vein, [Inbar] and [Ezra] found a way to …read more
Continue reading Making a Dash Button Update Your To-do List
When Amazon introduced AWS Lambda in 2015, the notion of serverless computing was relatively unknown. It enables developers to deliver software without having to manage a server to do it. Instead, Amazon manages it all and the underlying infrastructure only comes into play when an event triggers a requirement. Today, the company released an app […] Continue reading AWS introduces 1-click Lambda functions app for IoT
Amazon has over 100 Dash buttons now. Some of them are more sane than others. The post New Amazon Dash Buttons Let You Instantly Order Condoms for Some Reason appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading New Amazon Dash Buttons Let You Instantly Order Condoms for Some Reason