> That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

I fail to see how electronics in these (unpowered) devices in any way reduce the amount of power that they use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In theory you could have a system that monitors input and then uses a precise amount of water to vacate the bowl.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Oh sick, a toilet with bowl cameras

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I figure a scale would probably work better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

It's not nearly tech bro enough though. We need to jam pack this baby with Deep Learning Neural Network Image Recognition to count the corn kernels in your shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I think that was just a general statement regarding old devices, since they brought up a 1950s refrigerator as an example of a powered "dumb" device

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Sprinklers and all kinds of stuff are more efficient with sensors and electronic regulators