A year ago, two MIT Media Lab graduates raised half a million dollars on Kickstarter to create Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of Internet magic that promised to turn any object in your home into a web-connected, interactive "smart product." Want your basement pipes to send you a text message when they’re in danger of freezing up, or your garage door to ping you if you forget to close it? No problem: With Twine, building your own personal "Internet of things" is supposed to be easier than programming a VCR. And now that the product is available for purchase, it looks like creators John Kestner and David Carr have very nearly delivered on that ambitious promise. (..)
But you can get much more creative than that. Twine’s forums are already filling up with clever ideas from other users. My favorite: A parent who uses Twine’s magnetic switch to send him an alert if the kids break into the closet where their Christmas presents are hidden.
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