Amazon Dash and EyeWatch
Heard of Amazon’s latest innovation, the Dash Button? Let the Wall Street Journal describe it : “Each button bears a different brightly colored product logo…The buttons mount with an adhesive strip on the back, or fit into a plastic clip.” See pic below for an example of where/how the button is placed: Here’s how the Dash Button works: “You set up the buttons using the Amazon mobile shopping app, connecting them to your home Wi-Fi network and assigning the specific products and the quantities you’ll want to receive with each click. When the button is clicked, you get a smartphone notification, and you can cancel that order within a half hour. And if somebody in your house pushes the Gatorade button 15 times, you won’t get 15 orders—just one (or none, if an order is already on its way to you). ” (This is in addition to the hand-held Dash device that can automatically place orders for household goods by scanning barcodes or speech recognition). The same “action at the pr...