Amazon creates a button for those who are tired to go on the Internet – BBC

The “Dash Button” allows US Amazon customers ordering a specific product, connected through a switch, installed in the home.

At the beginning of the millennium, online supermarkets have started with a clear argument, which could attract people and overwhelmed lazy: shopping for real, it’s too tiring. Now Amazon decreed that going on the Internet, it’s too tiring. The e-commerce giant has unveiled the Dash Button, a physical button for simple function: order a single product.

A small score marks are partners Amazon to launch this button in the United States. If an American needs razors, there is a button ‘Gillette’. Within 48 hours, he will receive his products. To order the layers, there is a “Huggies” button for coffee capsules, a “Maxwell” button, and so on. These buttons the size of a USB key are provided by Amazon to “Amazon Prime” subscribers invitation.

Connected Wi-Fi, Dash Buttons can be installed anywhere in the house on the fridge, changing table or the toilet. It may therefore be a button sponsored by a brand of detergent or toilet paper. The launch of such a product around April 1, is surprising. Amazon, however, confirmed the information, and service use conditions are too precise to be a joke

Dash Buttons prove it once again. One of the most inexhaustible source of inspiration for new technologies is in human laziness. For a year, Amazon is testing a remote connected with bar code reader, Amazon Dash. It can scan the products that we want to buy, and then place the order at Amazon.

Along the Dash Button, Amazon opens the “Dash replenishment service” that allows an object connected directly control supplies to Amazon. The company boasts its usefulness for coffee makers or printers.

Recently, other services have pushed very far beyond laziness. Unfortunately, they are not yet available across the Atlantic. In February, for example, has launched Magic, a start-up based on a SMS service. Just send SMS to any application, within the limits of the law, for it to be met by an employee of the company. The caretaker of the future makes all the necessary steps before sending you the total score.

In August, another US enforcement had the ambition to make life easier: “Push for Pizza” offers its users to order a pizza in one push of a smartphone. The future is wonderful, and it’s terrifying.