Amazon Dash Button hack goes beyond mindless consumption<article>
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For $5,
Amazon’s Dash Button is supposed to be a dead-simple way for Prime subscribers to replenish household goods, but a seemingly simple hack has turned it into something much more interesting.</p><p>
Ted Benson, cofounder and chief technical officer of spreadsheet tool Cloudstitch,
discovered last week that a short Python script could repurpose the button to automatically fill out database entries. In his case, he retooled the Dash Button to make a note whenever his infant son had filled a diaper.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2972250/connected-home/amazon-dash-button-hack-goes-beyond-mindless-consumption.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Amazon Dash Button hack goes beyond mindless consumption
