Internet-of-things water bottle will inform you of your drinking habits

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And then it will DDoS somebody.

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Distributed Denial of Essence surely?

I bet it’s programmed for water woo:

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Then it gets hacked and a MEDI-SWAT team smashes your door down because they’ve been informed your kidneys are failing.

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I wonder if it compares notes with your smart toilet so you can get an alert when you need to pee. It’s like living in “The Sims!”

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I’ll wait for the MartiniGenie, so I can know when I’ve had tee many martoonis…

Seriously, though, I’ve used apps like Cron-o-meter to track liquid intake, particularly when I was trying out a keto diet (getting enough liquid is apparently important for keto diets).

Soda, coffee, even beer…they may not be great for you in lieu of water, but they still count as liquid intake. Conceptually, this is a nice idea, but there are significant gaps in data collection.

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[quote=“peregrinus_bis, post:2, topic:99804, full:true”]
The phrase “…and you’re good to go” has become a sure indicator of rubbish.
[/quote]Yes, indeed. This rather reminds me of the shock - real genuine visceral shock - when I first used spellcheck on an updated Word, to get the message “no errors, you’re good to go”. My fellow employees can attest to the stream of shocked profanity aimed at Microsoft during that incident. I do not recall seeing it since, so perhaps they quietly realised they’d gone too far, and fixed it in one of the silent and invisible O365 updates.

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which presumably need a special machine for squeezing all the water out of them?

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I have a feeling that the only people who will buy something like this are the people I hope spend their money on things like this. You know, moneyed morons.

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I think I have undiagnosed ADD and I often fail to drink stuff even when I’m really thirsty. I’m all like “Hey I’m thirsty oh wait a tvtropes article this will just take a minute…”

On the other hand, I don’t really think this product would be a worthwhile solution to my problem.

Now that is something I could actually use.

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Seems like that would be solved by having a (dumb) water bottle next to you whatever you’re doing, so you could drink at the same time.

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