Livin On A Prayer

My IoT daydreams🤖

They already store all my data, they’d better use it all to make my life easier.

Understand me plz — Computer Love🎵

I wish I could explain to Google sheets what I want it to do with the data instead of puzzling over ways to automate tasks across google apps.

imagine this, in a hiring pipeline sheet, instead of looking for plugins, trying to understand how Zapier works (no offense intended, Zapier is awesome) or looking for a free alternative, you simply type:

Hey Google,

when I change status to “hired” for one row; send thank-you-emails to rows with the status “interviewed”.

**where that email is a ready template created previously. With the right names.

But this action requires confirmation of course.

This will do wonders to CEOs of small startups who wear so many hats, have so many things to do every day….

I’m not lazy, but I’m just a busy girl who is tired of searching for tools to get a powerful computer to understand what I’m trying to do.

Find my jam — This Ain’t A Love Song 🎵

I wish my music app could gauge my mood from my activity on the device that day and put together a playlist that matches it.

I don’t understand how I feel (who does??!), how am I supposed to choose what I’d like to listen to now? I end up skipping more than 80% of any playlist I choose, which is ridiculous😞

If an event had just drastically changed my mood and my device couldn’t detect the change, I could just choose another song. But don’t force me to make that choice every time.

Sometimes, a girl could work and focus with upbeat music, you know. None of that library quiet stuff 😒 I’m already half asleep..

need a quick beat ASAP

Baba, I’m home — Sweet Child o ‘ Mine🎵

I wish that Uber or Careem would send a notification to loved ones when we get home safely.

I’m old enough not to use Careem kids, (Ahem, much older…)but my parents are constantly worried when I’m out and about.

So if I used Careem to get home (a saved location), I wish my phone would use the billing email trigger to send my parents notifications that’s I’m home and safe. I don’t always remember to do it and that makes me feel guilty when I do remember that they’re waiting for a call😓

I know I can share my trip with someone, but if I remembered to do that, I’d remember to call my parents, wouldn’t I?

Dude, where’s my suitcase — Down Under🎵

I wish that retrieving luggage in airports worked like the door-machine in Monsters.inc

imagine a wall of 30 “machines”; you scan your boarding pass and your luggage comes up from the floor STANDING UP, mind you. Not all of us can lug heavy suitcases from moving belts.

As for how that can work, I imagine an automated system operated by human workers. It scans luggage codes while unloading it and stores all items in individual slots. Once one is called, the platform beneath it pushes up to a track where all called luggage moves towards respective gates.

it’s scary to think of luggage moving over people’s heads. that’s why it easier under the floor

Pick up the phone — I’ll Be There For You🎵

I wish that wearable gadgets for females understood the silent danger of high blood pressure & tachycardia and notified someone when that happens.

she can ignore the notification, but will have to respond to a loved one calling, which will at least force her to step away from what’s bothering her for a couple of minutes.

This requires cooperation from both ends, but it’s worth it. The danger is real.

Skirt today? — I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For🎵

I wish my closet did something other than stare back at me while I try to choose an outfit.

I wish that my closet understood my modest clothing style based on my purchases and Pinterest boards and offered me combinations featuring all my collection items but also taking into consideration the weather outside and my health vitals that day.

Shutdown — Livin On a Prayer🎵

And finally; I wish that all networks shut down on their own for at least two hours everyday.

When our devices understand that this particular time is a down-time for us and we can really go offline, I wish they’s automatically shut down so we can actually pay attention and spend time with family and friends. More time for long walks, games, days in the park…and any other real activity. Life is short, I don’t want to go without spending as much time as possible with those I love.

Just for emergencies, it should naturally be a choice. Devices only shut down with out consent. And we can switch them on if we needed to.

Silly, childish or whatever, these are things I truly wish for. Do you have any IoT dreams?

Disclaimer, titles in this post are all 80s hits. I don’t own any of them.