How about cars with software interfaces so you can download software that will assist with driving. Download driving software from an app store. Everything from red light timers to voice activated mileage calculators to self-driving apps. Little toy apps that let you take pictures of the license plates of douche-bag drivers and tweet about them, to sophisticated safety apps that apply the brakes if you're going to run someone over.
How about bathrooms with some hardware installed that controls valves on your shower, drain, toilet, sink, etc. Has some sensors: temperature, pressure, whatever. Has an exposed "reset" button that, when pushed, allows it to be connected to through WiFi. You connect on your laptop through WiFi and configure it like a router, or you give it your wifi password and configure it through an internet webapp.
You could have it do things like automatically adjust the temperature of your shower so it never goes cold. Put a limit on the temperature of the water coming out so your kids don't get burned. Tell you when the drain is getting clogged. Shut off the water when the toilet is overflowing.
Put a few hardware controls in the plumbing, expose the controls to a software interface, launch an app store and let people make apps for your toilet and shower. We need this.
Ditto for smart houses. Create little wifi plugs that you install in your light fixtures and then have a software interface that lets people write apps to control lights from your iPhone, or from a remote web interface when on vacation.
Plug a little hardware device onto your blinds that will open/close them based on a software interface. Hooks up to your wifi. Lets you program it to open with the sunrise and close at sunset, or whatever the programmer wants. Have toy apps that communicate with neighbours using morse code for $4.99 on the app store.
There is infinite potential. A wifi connection, a microprocessor, and some piece of hardware to plug everyday things into. Every single morning I wonder why someone has not invented a simple hardware unit to plug into your shower that lets you regulate the temperature. I want to have an interface on my iPhone where I set the temperature of my shower in degrees fahrenheit and then push "start" and the shower turns on and heats up to my desired temperature automatically.
How about bathrooms with some hardware installed that controls valves on your shower, drain, toilet, sink, etc. Has some sensors: temperature, pressure, whatever. Has an exposed "reset" button that, when pushed, allows it to be connected to through WiFi. You connect on your laptop through WiFi and configure it like a router, or you give it your wifi password and configure it through an internet webapp.
You could have it do things like automatically adjust the temperature of your shower so it never goes cold. Put a limit on the temperature of the water coming out so your kids don't get burned. Tell you when the drain is getting clogged. Shut off the water when the toilet is overflowing.
Put a few hardware controls in the plumbing, expose the controls to a software interface, launch an app store and let people make apps for your toilet and shower. We need this.
Ditto for smart houses. Create little wifi plugs that you install in your light fixtures and then have a software interface that lets people write apps to control lights from your iPhone, or from a remote web interface when on vacation.
Plug a little hardware device onto your blinds that will open/close them based on a software interface. Hooks up to your wifi. Lets you program it to open with the sunrise and close at sunset, or whatever the programmer wants. Have toy apps that communicate with neighbours using morse code for $4.99 on the app store.
There is infinite potential. A wifi connection, a microprocessor, and some piece of hardware to plug everyday things into. Every single morning I wonder why someone has not invented a simple hardware unit to plug into your shower that lets you regulate the temperature. I want to have an interface on my iPhone where I set the temperature of my shower in degrees fahrenheit and then push "start" and the shower turns on and heats up to my desired temperature automatically.