During a recent trip, I met up with some good friends and had a conversation about a new hobby of theirs: collecting technology that did not do so well in the marketplace, or, better stated, “market failures.”
This got me thinking about several IoT products I have collected for my IoT research lab that seemed, well, a little out there. Regardless of whether they performed well in the marketplace, I picked these items up because they intrigued me and made me wonder why someone decided to create them, how the technology works, and who would be attracted to IoT tech like this.
With that said, let’s dive into a few of these items:
The Quirky Egg Minder
One of the first items I purchased was the Quirky Egg Minder. I picked this item up a few years back and initially had a nice, hard laugh when I first saw this on the market. Of course, I had to buy one. Well, actually I bought four. Hey, they were cheap!
The Quirky Egg Minder is an egg crate that holds a dozen eggs and allows you to keep track of them in your refrigerator so you know how old any individual egg is and how many you have in your refrigerator so you can buy more if you’re running low. With this device and its associated mobile application, you can keep track of your eggs from anywhere in the world over the internet.
These devices are still available on Amazon—maybe they’d make for that perfect holiday gift for that special person in your life!
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Another item I came across and had to have was the
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