Ray brings up an excellent point. It seems more about adding an app or controlling something with a phone than actually innovating. There has never been a better example of this than the Fisher Price swing that is controlled by a smart phone. Do we really need a baby swing that you control through a phone? It seems like more work to do that than to actually flip the switch when you are putting the kid in. Just seems like another product jumping on the feature creep bandwagon. I wonder what the problem was that they were trying to solve by adding in another UI to the product.
*disclaimer: my kid is pretty easy in that I can just put her in it and turn it on. I never had the need to adjust the swing once it is on.