Smart speaker ? Seriously? What next? Smart water bottles? Smart toilet paper holder? Oh, right, there are already those things. http://seebo.com/concept-page-smart-water-bottle/ http://www.rollscout.com/index.php/article-category-list/74-what-does-rollscout-do This IoT thing is getting out of hand ... (and then scientist wonder why E.T. has never visited Earth )
I've just had a vision of a scenario similar to the start of the Airplane movie, where IoT devices from different competing manufacturers start abusing each other. An Alexa vs Siri vs Cortana bunfight.
"LED light source signals when it’s time to drink" The consequence can be, that private conversations can be uploaded to the cloud, because "Machine hearing" is not error-proof: