I bought some lightbulbs. Nice ones. Wiz colour-changing LEDs that can do 16 million colours, warm whites, cool whites, animated scenes, the lot. I screwed them in, downloaded the app, and watched my phone send a request to an AWS server, probably in Frankfurt, so that the server could send a command back to my house, through my router, to a lightbulb that was three metres away from me.
To turn on a light. In my own house. Via Germany.
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