This made me realize I’m not sure what counts as a smart appliance. Just stuff with an app or network capabilities?
My Anova sous vide has an app, but it’s not mandatory (I don’t think I’ve used it—just checked and it’s not on my phone) and I don’t think it’s much more than a glorified timer—fuzzy logic rice cookers are a lot “smarter” (in the sense of taking action without user input) and have been around for, what, almost 40 years.
(Oh, I have used a smart coke machine … in the sense of the vending machines you could finger to get their inventory.)
