While I share the general lack of disregard for the overall state of IoT connected objects (such as connected Juicers) - there are certainly a lot of great applications out there. I just added a We-mo outlet to my cat’s feeder, so now I can feed him automatically in the morning, or in emergency situations when I won’t be home from work on time to give him his can of food.
It’s also impressive how accessible the technology is to do what he did. It only takes a couple lines of code to get an Arduino to do what he did. For designers who are working in any type of converged space, these technologies are so accessible now that it should be viewed as an enabler of good design opportunities rather than a “spread this on anything” type of thought process. You used to need a team of engineers to get up and running what you can do with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi these days.