Ok… a ‘smart’ bed with adjustable angles and heating I can see happening… and it isnt THAT complicated. I am certain there were luxury beds last century that were capable of this. But why the FUCK do they need an internet connection? Why the FUCK do they need communication with some server in the middle of bumfuck nowhere to function correctly?
We are literally opening up the way go cyberpunk style ‘murder by hacking furniture’ around the home. I mean they are also HIGHLY insecure devices to the extent that I am surprised we haven’t seen script kiddies fucking around with people on these already.
Obviously this whole bs makes amazing stock go up because capitalism.
Not so smart anymore eh?
How is this my problem? Am I an idiot with a smart bed? I’m just a regular idiot!
Because electric blankets are too simple and practical I guess
Wasn’t one of the appliances in the Brave Toaster an electric blanket?
Wtf. How did they not at the very least build in a reasonable safe state whenever the thing gets disconnected. Something like “keep current position, disable heating” or return to flat position.
But the more pressing question is: why does a bed have an internet connection? Who does this help? And why does it NEED an internet connection? Surely a few Back-up buttons for when the service eventually goes down isn’t too much to ask? Who would buy such a thing?!
You can unplug the bed then it becomes a normal bed. People are complaining because they didn’t want to unplug it, they wanted to narrate a story about how their internet bed was disabled by internet problems. “Oh noes, what has the world come to, click for more details” attention-span economy BS.
Because it has to be hooked to a subscription, duuh.
That’s what you get for having a smart bed
I don’t mind internet connected devices (ignoring privacy issues). What I have a problem with is internet dependent devices. All critical devices should have a backup mode for a lost connection, and all devices should fail safe, not run at max temperature.
My smart lights are controlled by Home Assistant, so they still work when my internet connection goes down. I also have physical switches so I can control them like basic lights if Home Assistant breaks.
Always have backup plans.
Sitting here rather comfortable on my bed that doesn’t connect to the internet
I only got a SleepNumber so I could control the bed’s softness for back pain. They said I could also connect it to my phone for monitoring my sleep and all this nonsense. Hard pass.
Must we connect everything to the cloud?
Look, I’m not proud of this next comment but it jumped into my head after reading yours so I guess we can suffer together.
If one’s penis was connected to the cloud, it would give a whole new meaning to the term “cloud seeding”
Of course. My meat tenderizer connected to the internet has an accelerometer and sensors. For a small monthly subscription fee it tells me how hard I need to beat the meat, and for how long. All powered by AI for my convenience.
No, but techbros must.
A bed that connects to the internet is not a smart bed. Thats fucking stupid.
Imagine someone knows that you are sleeping because your hacked bed says so
Imagine someone knows that you are sleeping because your bed’s software’s owner sells the info.
I, like most lemmings, object to the idea of having my bed be cloud connected … But putting that aside, couldn’t the bed just be unplugged? I don’t know if that would solve the angle problem, but surely the bed needs power to generate heat.
Someone who bought such a thing is 100% stupid. Don’t try to argue with or suggest logic.
Definitely. This is just clickbait hyperbole.
They weren’t bricked, they were unresponsive for most of the day), and they could be unplugged if needed. An internet-connected bed is stupid, but this clickbait is even more so.
but this clickbait is even more so.
A device randomly overheating is a great thing. Totally not a fire hazard.
Calling such unsafe and stupid things as what they are (stupid) is clearly and idiotic thing to do.
I would hope that like damn-near every other electronic device, it would include at least a thermal cutoff to kill the power before it got hot enough to start a fire.
Seriously, they’re in pretty much everything, any sort of tool or appliance with a motor probably has one, of course anything that generates heat like a hair dryer or space heater, I’ve seen them in lamps, they’re everywhere. They’re also a pretty common point of failure, so if you’re a little handy with a soldering iron, for any random device that suddenly stops working, there’s a pretty good chance that the culprit is a brown thermal fuse and can be repaired for just a few cents and a few minutes of mumbling curses to yourself while you try to get the damn thing open.
I think the bigger issue with this is probably people with mobility issues, who I imagine are a pretty big part of the target market for a bed like this, if they have trouble getting out of bed to adjust the heat or whatever, a bed like this is probably pretty attractive. But if they get stuck in bed with the heat stuck on high, that could be a pretty big medical problem.
Come on people, this is why you make cloud enabled devices that can still function offline. And why I will never buy a range with wifi (or at least never connect it if there’s no dumb model available).
But…why? I can see cloud connectivity for some things… but a bed? The entire point is data harvesting from suckers. Internet of Shit product.
That’s exactly what it is. I wonder if any of the users being “roasted” figured out they ought to unplug it.
Yeah, whether or not a bed should be connected to the internet aside, internet connected appliances should still be usable without a connection.
Reminds me of an anecdote about a company that did cloud-connected toilets (for some reason?) that one user found they couldn’t flush when they had an internet outage. Their technical support suggested they flushed it by filling a bucket of water at the sink to manually flush the toilet, which would’ve been a janky but usable solution, if the user in question didn’t also happen to have cloud-connected faucets.
I once ordered an Wi-Fi-enabled automatic dog feeder because I had to attend a work thing for a few days, and I wanted a guaranteed way for my dog to get fed at a reasonable time (in case of an unreliable dog-sitter).
Coincidentally, lightning fried my modem the day before the feeder was delivered, and I discovered that the feeder is incapable of working without Internet.
So, there exists a product that is 100% dependent on the functionality of some remote servers and all of the infrastructure that connects the feeder to them, or the dog doesn’t eat. Horrible design/engineering.
if i can’t control it with home assistant with only LAN access, i am not buying it.
Some people pay extra so they can sleep in a warm bed.
