{"id":2941,"date":"2017-02-13T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:09:44","slug":"coder-turns-amazon-dash-button-donation-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/02\/13\/coder-turns-amazon-dash-button-donation-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Coder turns Amazon Dash button into donation tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coder hacked into an Amazon gadget designed to instantly order consumer goods for the home and coded it donate $5 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with every press, a media report said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to see these become a real product that organisations across the political spectrum could offer,\u201d NBC News quoted Coder Nathan Pryor, who is based in Vancouver, Washington, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more that can be done to lessen the friction of giving, the more people will donate, and I think the immediacy of it would increase their sense of involvement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon introduced the Dash Button in 2015 to allow frazzled consumers to reorder essential home supplies by literally pressing a button that sticks to a surface at home.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the \u201cCascade\u201d Dash Button might be slapped onto a dishwasher and the \u201cCharmin\u201d button might go next to a toilet paper roll, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon responded by releasing a developer kit and a customiseable Internet of Things (IoT) button called the AWS IoT. Amazon did not respond immediately to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture source: Alamy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coder hacked into an Amazon gadget designed to instantly order consumer goods for the home and coded it donate $5 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with every press, a media report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}