Internet of Spin? The most useless IoT devices ever

Larissa Fedunik
5 min readJul 8, 2021
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Innovation. Must-have. Revolution. These are words that get thrown about a lot in the tech sphere, and the land of internet-connected devices (aka the Internet of Things, or IoT) is no exception. But what happens when connectivity adds approximately zero value?

Redundancy doesn’t seem to be barrier for the manufacturers of useless IoT. In an article on The Conversation, David…

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Larissa Fedunik

Freelance writer and science communicator based in Canberra, Australia. PhD in Chemistry.