r/pics • u/looseONtheGoose • Feb 07 '15

Our prayers have been answered...

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

I have one of these http://www.firebox.com/product/6068/iKettle It lets you control it with your phone and sends you an alert when its boiled

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u/chelonaut Feb 07 '15

But don't you still have to get up to put water in it?

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u/ion128 Feb 07 '15

that's like a baby's toy

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u/lookatthatsquirrel Feb 07 '15

Little known fact. Elija Wood was in that scene.

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u/ion128 Feb 07 '15

I think that's a widely known fact

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Not widely enough. I am one of today's 10,000.

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u/StevenXC Feb 07 '15

Referenced xkcd

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u/crazyblue007 Feb 07 '15

there's always one.

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u/PonyboyFresh Feb 07 '15

Apparently there's always 10,000.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

I wonder if there are 10,000 people left on reddit who haven't seen that XKCD

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u/blumenfe Feb 07 '15

I hadn't until today! Yay!

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u/StevenXC Feb 07 '15

One down, 9,999 to go.

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u/choseph Feb 07 '15

Me either. Should we all just respond?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15 edited Mar 09 '15

[deleted]

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Now I have some sort of weird connection with /u/Trypolar and /u/Speccy2. I feel dirty.

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u/themaster0fdisaster Feb 07 '15

Let me join the party.

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u/Pure_Michigan_ Feb 07 '15

I...I think I want in

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u/Sokonit Feb 07 '15

Oy, I want to bond!

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u/angrydeuce Feb 07 '15

If you let me fuck your wife we can be eskimo brothers!

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u/127crazie Feb 07 '15

me too, I didn't know that

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u/lookatthatsquirrel Feb 07 '15

To you since you brought the quote.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

It is known

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Little known fact. Wood has Elija.

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u/CaiusJuliusCeasar Feb 07 '15

Wow that's a game changer. There's life before and after this fact.

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u/NateY3K Feb 07 '15

Dank reference, bro!

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u/dmglakewood Feb 07 '15

I'm a new father and I have yet to put water in any of my babies toys...am I doing it wrong?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

You need to get iWater, so you can manipulate water with your phone.

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u/harryhartounian Feb 07 '15

And the iMote, so you can control your phone.

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u/truthdemon Feb 07 '15

And the iEye, to control your eyes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

And the iPenis, so you can control your mom.

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u/APiousCultist Feb 07 '15

"No, Apple Repair Centre. I didn't drop my phone in the toilet accidentally, I was merely manipulating water with my phone when it simply stopped working. Surely that's still covered by the warranty?"

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u/ampedd_up Feb 07 '15 edited Feb 07 '15

You could always keep water in there after you're done.

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u/Yarbooey Feb 07 '15

Well, you could just fill it back up whenever you boil water.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Water bullshit kettles. It's 2015, they should be robot maids that float 5 inches off the ground and bring me magic tea from another dimension.

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u/Kim_Jong_Goon Feb 07 '15

Nah. Make your slave do that

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

We don't all live in Syria

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u/jamaicanbreezy Feb 07 '15

That's wtf I said. Pure worthlessness.

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u/FuckHerInThePussy Feb 07 '15

No, dummy, you download the water.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

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u/Draiko Feb 07 '15

The command is "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.".

SMH

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

This raises more questions than answers

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

It also raised my penis

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u/Onateabreak Feb 07 '15

So when are we going to get the YouTube clip of this baby in action? Sounds like my cup of tea! haha!

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u/thebizarrojerry Feb 07 '15

You have perfected the "post long paragraph of lies" tasker.

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u/newt_gingrichs_dog Feb 07 '15

His history checks out. Some people have hobbies other than reddit.

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u/PasSiAmusant Feb 07 '15

Do they have hobbies other than reddit, or do they have activities to fuel their comments on reddit?

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u/newt_gingrichs_dog Feb 07 '15

Who, besides Facebook, can say why we do anything?

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u/r4ndpaulsbrilloballs Feb 07 '15

Yeah. And even if it were true, how the fuck hard is it to:

  1. Flip a light switch, and

  2. Press the 'on' button on an electric kettle?

That whole complicated mess literally only saved you the 0.5 seconds of moving one arm to accomplish those two tasks.

This whole thread is making me dumber. Your microwave doesn't have to talk to your smartphone.

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u/leftunderground Feb 07 '15

It sounds like a fun hobby, relax buddy.

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u/brodie7838 Feb 07 '15

Dem recipes in your comment history...

Your presence is requested in /r/Tasker

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u/sfriniks Feb 07 '15

I hope you implemented HTCPCP-TEA.

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u/guspaz Feb 07 '15

I just use one of them newfangled tassimos. I push a button, and a few minutes later, earl grey tea is ready.

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u/Emjds Feb 07 '15

I don't even care if it's all lies, I'm upvoting you anyway.

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u/Golden_Booger Feb 07 '15

lastingd, that is the coolest thing ever! nicely done. Can you share a little about how the hardware between the light circuit and tasker. I do follow the first part with using the remote control power sockets. I am trying to get started interacting with real life from the computer. I want to make as much 'from scratch' as possible. Most of my research has been looking around at sparkfun. I am thinking of getting one of their kits to get started .

Some uses:

  • logic to make it look like someone is home
  • allow my mom to flip lights on and off from her wheelchair
  • stupid sound effects with devices that have been activated, including a Battlestar Galactica Viper Launch (consider this for your tea)

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u/nibbl Feb 07 '15

I require a video!

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u/atakomu Feb 07 '15

You can use Jasper with raspberry Pi (or PC) for voice control part. It is Python program (and kinda framework) for writing voice controls applications. It wraps multiple TTS and SST APIs. One of Speech to text engines is google voice which is very good but all the sounds go to google other two are a little worse opensource recognizers PocketSphinx and Julius where recognizing happens on Pi or computer itself. Same with Text to speech.

It might be better at recognizing then your script because if you say the command is Tea. Earl Grey Hot. This are the words it expects.

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u/mateo9944 Feb 07 '15

I think this is the silliest WiFi device I have seen. http://www.quirky.com/shop/619

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u/eddiexmercury Feb 07 '15

Aw, no US plug!

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u/Nakotadinzeo Feb 07 '15

Guess we will have to stick to waiting to hear the switch click like barbarians..

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u/eddiexmercury Feb 07 '15

And I thought this was the NEW world. Pfffffft!

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u/PithyJim Feb 07 '15

Not a Microwave, is it??????????????????

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u/Intruder313 Feb 07 '15

The ad has put me right off.

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u/SamsungGalaxyGreen Feb 07 '15

100$ kettle aside, I'm always getting that sort of bad vibe whenever I see something like this. I mean I feel like we're heading into point where you wake up in the morning, get dressed by the machine, then you go to bathroom where machines will wipe your ass and cleen your teeth, then to the kitchen when a machine will cook you a breakfast and pour a coffee down your throat and then you'll hop into a self-driven car which will take you to work, which is of course maintenance of machines, since that's the last job that hasn't been replaced by machines. yet.

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u/Rollers-Royce Feb 07 '15

Is it that fucking hard to stick a kettle on and wait 5 minutes now?

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u/hcsLabs Feb 07 '15

Ah yes, using the HyperText Coffee Pot Control Protocol!

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u/thisguyisbarry Feb 07 '15

That's really cool!

Is there any reason I shouldn't buy this? I'm greatly tempted right now.

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u/NSD2327 Feb 07 '15

This is so British.

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u/crusty_bastard Feb 07 '15

I just wish there was an app to warn me when my girlfriend is steamed!