Chad's Crappy Corner and another gadget for his August theme: cheap Smart Home gadgets.

Chad's August theme (As voted on by our loyal patrons) is “Crappy Smart Home Gadgets” and Chad's 2nd cheap gadget of the month is the Wink Egg Minder Smart Egg Tray. 

Here's what Amazon says about it: From Quirky and GE comes the Wink Egg Minder Smart Egg Tray that adds a new level of intelligence to your everyday lives and the kitchen. The Egg Minder features a built-in Wi-Fi chip to allow it to sync up to your smart device via the Wink app. Once paired with your smartphone or tablet you can now open the app from anywhere to view how many eggs you have which can be incredibly handy on impromptu grocery shopping trips or if you simply just don't think to check on your egg count before heading out the door. This alone is very convenient but the Egg Minder can still do more. In the actual egg crate next to each egg is an LED light that will alert you to which egg of the bunch is the oldest and should be used next and when that egg is removed from the Egg Minder the next oldest will be indicated and so on. The Egg Minder will also communicate with you through various push-notifications to alert you to when an egg has gone bad, an egg is close to going bad, and even set the Egg Minder to notify you when you are running low on eggs. $10.99 and Amazon Prime, so free shipping for Prime Members.

And Chad's take? Chad was not eggactly bowled over with this device! As a matter of fact, it laid an egg. (Okay, enough with the bad puns.) As you'll see in Chad's demo, this device works rather badly. It couldn't keep track of how eggs there were in the tray or where the eggs were. Since that's pretty much the purpose of this thing, it's not very good. About the only thing that surprised us about this device was the price. It was just $10.99. My guess is that it's that price because it was a failure. I believe it actually was priced at about $60 to $70 when I first saw it years ago at a time show. Since it's not worth the $11 Chad paid, I can imagine how disappointed people were who bought it at 6 or 7 times that price. Chad calls this a 'rotten egg'. (That was the last pun, sorry.)

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