> When we design Internet connected appliances, we need to move our minds
> away from how we perseive today's "traditional" appliances.  How do we do
> that?  To come up with a real "killer app" appliance, I think (no pun
> intended) we need to relook at appliances with the possibility that major
> life style changes are likely to occur.  Is shopping at a Grocery store
> going to change because some appliance preorders - could grocery shopping
> instead be a "take out" or "drive thru" event?  Can clothes be processed
> totally - how about a bar code on each shirt and the washer/dryer adjusts
> automatically.  May be that the physical size of a washer/dryer could
> change and become much smaller but utilize a conveyer or hopper to process
> each garmet separately.
>
> Maybe we could have GPS enhanced vacume cleaners that would automatically
> and hands free vacume the entire house while we are away at work.  We
> would first have to manually push the vacume cleaner and it would learn
> the manual movements.  Then being "internet connected" its possible that
> the vacume cleaner's data pattern could be remotely analyzed and made more
> efficient.  How about if from work we instructed the vacume cleaner to
> download a "screen saver" like pattern where we instruct the vacume
> cleaner to vacume in a manner to create that pattern on the carpet for the
> party we are going to have that night?
>
> Internet connected appliances DO have appeal -- it's just hard to put
> oneself in a future lifestyle.  And, we can surely say with confidence,
> life style changes have occurred in the past and likely will change much
> faster in the future.
>