The Amazon Dash Button: A Retrospective

The Internet of Things will revolutionize everything! Manufacturing? Dog walking? Coffee bean refilling? Car driving? Food eating? Put a sensor in it! The marketing makes it pretty clear that there’s no part of our lives which isn’t enhanced with The Internet of Things. Why? Because with a simple sensor and …read more

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Making a Dash Button Update Your To-do List

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

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Internet of Unwanted Things? Amazon Dash buttons pricey for brands, but is anyone tapping?

There was endless pontification about Amazon Dash when it launched. The service, which lets consumers re-order products with the tap of a single-purpose button, was hailed as the potential future of shopping as well as the end of civilization, often … Continue reading Internet of Unwanted Things? Amazon Dash buttons pricey for brands, but is anyone tapping?