“I wasn’t able to even force it to run without the solution. Somehow it knew,” Lopez writes on Medium. He popped the refilled cartridge back into the litter box, fully expecting the cleaning mechanism to whirl back to life. In a pinch, he decided to refill the cartridge with water until his new order of CatGenie-branded cartridges arrived in the mail. Lopez was enjoying the hands-off, CatGenie high life-that is, until he ran out of SaniSolution. As Lopez describes it, the CatGenie is “the Rolls Royce of cat litter boxes”-all he has to do is replace the CatGenie SaniSolution SmartCartridge on cue, and the CatGenie disposes of foul-smelling cat turds on its own. Last week, cat-lover and programmer Jorge Lopez detailed his experience with the CatGenie-an automatic, self-cleaning cat litter box. Now, even your cat’s crap comes with a steaming side of corporate crap. You know what else features DRM these days? Kitty litter. At the time, we thought that coffee barons locking their customers into name-brand coffee pods was the most boneheaded deployment of DRM we’d ever seen. Image: CC NC-BY-SA by Flickr user Sean BonnerĮarlier this year, we told you about Keurig’s attempt to quash off-brand coffee by integrating DRM into its newest model of brewing machine.
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