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So; for $2k upfront, $19 a month in saas fees, you get a bed that you can adjust the temperature of online? And also, opens up your whole house to being remotely hacked? And our guy in the article has chucked his electronics and replaced it with a tropical aquarium heater pump for $180, which suggests that it's just the bog standard kind of waterbed that you could have bought for about $300, with unnecessary tech attached?
There's plenty of "silicon valley tech" that seems to have a ridiculously poor value proposition - this isn't the Juicero, but might challenge for second place. Have to wonder exactly what they're thinking, though. And what the devs were thinking, putting it into production with a live AWS key in the firmware.