Kettles, frogs and fridges unite on the dark side
The kitchen is not enough
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Tuesday 11th October 2005 12:32 GMT
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Letters The world was rocked yesterday by the news that PG Tips had designed a kettle that can be controlled by text message. Well, we were confident that this utterly astonishing news would provoke much serious and sensible discussion among our beloved readers. And boy, did it.
Well, not so much of the sensible or serious, but you certainly made your opinions known:
This is it. Everything changes now. When I calm down from my excitement I can hear the seething masses of the world cheering.
At last, at long last, we can boil our kettle using SMS! Surely the MIT Media Lab must have had a hand in this?
In the far future, Tuesday 11th October 2005 will forever be celebrated as SMSKD (SMS Kettle Day), and years will from now on be known as xxxx-BK and xxxx-AK for Before Kettle and After Kettle.
We can only hope that they decide to market it as the 'iKettle'.
It will come in white or black, and be prone to scratching; thus rescuing the world economy from disaster by making a massive market for pink silicone rubber 'iKettle Gloves'
Modders will create versions that can also boil water for coffee.
Water providers will region-encode their water, so the iKettle will only work with your local water; exploits will appear that enable non-DRM (Drip Rights Management) water to be boiled in it.
This is fantastic! Wonderful! Emergent! etc. etc. etc.
Adrian
taken from
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/letters_1110/
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