I can not see a time where a 'hacker' could light it and cause a fire but it not have the issue of accidental fire.
Skipping that, it an amazing product. Candles are for some reason important to human beings. This would sell well and it's what people want, and I think make lives a little better, actually tying abstract technology to something real.
I have no idea how you can mitigate the fire risk, if you could though you'd probably save lives given current candle deaths, but I think it's not possible.... Certainly in it's current form it will kill people through accidents.
I think the use case is incredibly obvious.
Exactly the same as lighting! And smells too if you want.
Being IoT it is also safer than candles once you solve the lighting it safely without being able to see it issue. If a cat physically knocks it over it can warn you, normal candles don't.
You could argue it'll make candles more common and cause more fires, but that's a different issue.
Warning you when they knock over would be pretty neat though. I hope that feature is implemented in this product.
I am not sure if you’re trolling or serious. Why would anyone want a candle in places they can reach?
Has humanity become so lazy that we have candles at home, but think it is too much effort to find a match and light them???
Most dangrous perhaps.
This is an absolutely great idea. An actual use for IoT that makes sense.
But it is very unsafe.
If could be put away and accidentally ignited, or have been knocked over.
If you can't see how useful it is, then you are quite short-sighted.
But the reason it's so great is people haven't designed non IoT versions because of the extreme danger.