Amazon’s first foray into smart home technology, the Dash button, is officially defunct, as the company announced it would discontinue the functionality of all existing buttons later this summer.

The idea seemed simple: If you find yourself regularly ordering the same thing from Amazon — coffee, laundry detergent, whatever — why not replace the whole ordering process with a button you put ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chris Walton is a former Target executive turned retail journalist. Amazon announced that it will kill its famed Dash Button, ...

The Internet of Things will revolutionize everything! Manufacturing? Dog walking? Coffee bean refilling? Car driving? Food eating? Put a sensor in it! The marketing makes it pretty clear that there’s ...

This story is part of a collection of pieces on how we spend money today. Amazon’s Dash Buttons were either the pinnacle of gimmickry—a bunch of plastic purchase-dongles that served no use except to ...

Amazon’s Dash buttons are about to become little more than small household ornaments after the company announced it’s going to disconnect them from the internet. In a statement to Digital Trends, the ...

Amazon Dash buttons were the ultimate single purpose networked device; it really can’t get much simpler than a push button that sends a single message to a fixed endpoint. It was an experiment in ...

Amazon’s four-year dalliance with plastic “BUY! BUY! BUY!” buttons appears to finally be coming to a close. The Amazon Dash line of physical, Internet-connected buttons, which allowed customers to ...

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Amazon has officially killed one of its more perplexing products: the Dash button. Literally just a single button next to a brand’s logo on a rounded bit of plastic, the Dash button was for people who ...