Well, fortunately, this Mother is a lot friendlier. She has no hidden agenda like her counterpart aboard the ill-fated the Nostromo in the Alien film and she doesn’t think that her human crew are expendable. She’s cute like one of those Russian Nesting dolls, but a lot more useful and interactive. She comes with 4 ‘cookies’ which are like retrieval tags that do a lot more than just find your lost keys. The MSRP on this package is $299, but Woot has these on a short term sale for just $89. The sale ends June 19 at 12 a.m., CDT.
You can place one of the cookies on your front door to be alerted if your front door opens. You can pop one in your pocket to measure your activity goals and even stick one on your bottle of Rx pills to remind you to take your meds. You can even plop one on your mattress to measure the quality of your sleep. The cookies can even report the ambient temperature.
Mother connects to your Internet router via Ethernet and into the wall for power and comes with a companion app for Android, iOS and Windows phone. Yes, you read that right – an app for Windows phone – it’s not just a Zune, ya know! The app lets you customize what you want to be notified about for each cookie.
That thing on the door is a cookie. You can program it via your app to alert you if the kids got home – or if you haven’t got kids, to call 911!