
Amazon is killing off the Dash button later this month
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/amazon-is-killing-off-the-dash-button-later-this-month/
The idea seemed simple: If you find yourself regularly ordering the same thing from Amazon — coffee, laundry detergent, whatever — why not replace the whole ordering process with a button you put somewhere in your house? Push a button, get a thing.
And from that, Amazon’s Dash button was born. Announced one day before April Fools’ 2015, people weren’t sure if it was actually real.