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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by letsgetphysITal on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:40AM (#16151114)
Right, sure, but we're talking in a thread about a machine which folds your clothes for you, or a house with two dishwashers so you can use them straight from one and put them into the other afterwards. I'm not advocating lying in a La-Z-Boy wearing a VR headset, eating nothing but Cheetos and Mountain Dew for 6 days straight. I'm talking about dimming all the lights in the room when you put on a film, or having them slowly brighten as you wake up in the morning.

And as for diminishing returns, I would argue that it is not. With proper configuration you can automate the entire morning routine; Lights up with your alarm, off when you leave the house, on when you arrive home, off when you go to bed. Just minor conveniences that make life more pleasurable.

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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by coldtea on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:30AM (#16151464)
>I'm talking about dimming all the lights in the room when you put on a film, or having them slowly brighten as you wake up in the morning.

Yes. And while that is nice to have, it's by no means as useful as "automatic clothes folding". A dimmer takes like 5 seconds to dim when you put on a movie -- whereas clothes folding takes up to tens of minutes.

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