Air Wick's New Scented Oil Diffuser Can Be Controlled With Your iPhone

I'll go ahead and rank this one down there with the shower you can control from your iPhone. Humanity has (again) reached a new low. So useless.

Friendly reminder that humans and dogs and cats did not evolve under conditions of high concentrations of directly vaporized essential oils (which are otherwise largely safe to ingest and or encounter topically, as we have evolved encountering for eons).

Also that there are many epidemiological cases showing that these highly concentrated vaporized oils are deadly toxic to household pets.

Not to mention several studies and Material Safety Data Sheets showing certain compounds (like vitamin E oil) to be incredibly beneficial when ingested or applied topically, but cause severe respiratory collapse if inhaled in relatively small quantities.

TL;DR: Vaporizing oils in our homes is a brand new frontier of human/animal medical experimentation for which there is practically no precedent scientifically or evolutionarily. I choose not to be a subject of this experiment.

It’s amazing how stupid so many of these IoT products are.

I wonder too how bad the security is on this product.

OMG .... who the heck needs this garbage!?!?!?

We're long past the point where folks should have just stopped and revaluated what the hell they're doing with their products, so now we're just going for absurdity instead.

The year is 2045. A father and son are rummaging through a mall flooded by sea level rise.

SON: Dad! Look at this thing. It says it’s some kind of... scent diffuser?

FATHER: Yeah. People used to buy stuff like this. You could make a smell come out of a little electrical device, over the Internet. So you could do it from anywhere in the world.

SON: Even while the ecosystems were collapsing? Wasn’t that considered a waste of resources? I mean, to think of the carbon emissions involved in designing, manufacturing, and transporting millions of those things. Seems like—

FATHER: Son? That’s enough. Just keep looking for cans. There might be soup here somewhere.