Mark Rittman's home is a web of sensors and control. Filaments of data pass between his house, his body, and the server in his garage. Door, motion, and temperature sensors monitor his environs. His iPhone and health band monitor him. Everything is logged for analysis, and controlling the lighting, temperature, and music is as easy as a request to Siri. With the addition of his latest gadget, the iKettle, Rittman hoped to ask Siri for a cup of tea. Better yet, he wanted to add the kettle to an automated morning routine: when the health band on his wrist noticed he was awake, it could alert the house to turn up the heat and lighting downstairs and have the kettle ready for when he got out of the shower. Unfortunately, Rittman had a hard time getting the gadget online, as he tweeted to the thousands following his saga: "3 hrs later and still no tea. Mandatory recalibration caused wifi base-station reset." When he did get it online, the kettle did not work with his other devices: "To get my iKettle to actually work with Siri I had to hack this integration together myself." He continued to tweet about this process, and when he finally succeeded, his story went global, starting with a report in The Guardian: "English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle technology."