{"id":395,"date":"2019-02-22T01:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2022-08-15T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:48:19","slug":"the-2-simplest-devices-in-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/the-2-simplest-devices-in-my-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2 simplest devices in my home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2 machines in my home that I like best, are simple and not smart. Received as gifts, a new convection toaster oven that goes tick-tick-tick, and a bluetooth soda can speaker with very little intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sony SRS-XB10 portable wireless speaker with Bluetooth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/speaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-396\" width=\"140\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/speaker.jpg 522w, https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/speaker-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This speaker can pair with a phone, iPad, or a computer. It can play audio. It can act as a speakerphone. It is small, rechargeable, wireless, and sounds bigger than it is. It does not have AI, a personal assistant, skills, and does not tie into any home automation. It is just a speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Black and Decker TO1950SBD convection toaster oven<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-402\" width=\"411\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This toaster oven is convection, which means that it has a fan that blows the air around while baking. It is good at baking croissants. It has a temperature control, and a timer. With a spring. That goes tick-tick-tick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A picture of croissants baked in the toaster oven<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/croissantscropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-399\" width=\"251\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/croissantscropped.jpg 542w, https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/croissantscropped-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 machines in my home that I like best, are simple and not smart. Received as gifts, a new convection toaster oven that goes tick-tick-tick, and a bluetooth soda can speaker with very little intelligence. Sony SRS-XB10 portable wireless speaker with Bluetooth This speaker can pair with a phone, iPad, or a computer. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/the-2-simplest-devices-in-my-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2 simplest devices in my home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gordonbuchan.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}