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Title: Amazon Dash Button hack goes beyond mindless consumption Post by: HCK on August 20, 2015, 03:00:12 am Amazon Dash Button hack goes beyond mindless consumption
<article> <section class="page"> <p> For $5, Amazon’s Dash Button is supposed (http://www.techhive.com/article/2954256/connected-home/amazon-s-crazy-dash-buttons-on-sale-for-all-prime-members.html) 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 (https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8) 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> Source: Amazon Dash Button hack goes beyond mindless consumption (http://www.macworld.com/article/2972250/connected-home/amazon-dash-button-hack-goes-beyond-mindless-consumption.html#tk.rss_all) |