English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle

The iKettle is advertised as the worlds first Wi-Fi kettle. Mark Rittman got one and said it took 11-hours to make a cup of tea.

From The Guardian:

A key problem seemed to be that Rittmans kettle didnt come with software that would easily allow integration with other devices in his home, including Amazon Echo, which, like Apples Siri, allows users to tell connected smart devices what to do. So Rittman was trying to build the integration functionality himself.

Still haven't had a first cup of tea this morning, debugging the kettle and now iWifi base-station has reset. Boiling water in saucepan now. pic.twitter.com/lC3uNX5WTp

— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016

@markrittman why don't you just get normal fucking kettle

— ready 4 december (@onekade) October 11, 2016