The Tertill is a perfect case study of the Internet of Trash and e-waste.
Marketed as a solar-powered robot gardener, it promised to automate one of the most tedious jobs in the home garden. Today it’s discontinued, unsupported, and headed toward the growing pile of e-waste created by abandoned tech products.
The Kickstarter crowdfunding project backers raised more than $300,000 and ultimately failed to deliver a product that could function more than a few years. Whether you call it mismanagement, over promising, incompetence, or something worse, the result for many backers was the same: money gone, promises unfulfilled, and a little more for the landfill.
LOL so much for “smart” products.
A garden hoe from 1950 still works.
A rake from 1920 still works.
IoT gadgets are one failure away from becoming electronic landfill.
REMINDER DON’T BUY INTO SYSTEMS YOU DON’T OWN.
The Tertill wasn’t just a weeding robot. It was a reminder that when companies sell convenience, cloud services, apps, subscriptions, and proprietary ecosystems, they’re often selling a product with an expiration date. The weeds in my garden are still here.
The company isn’t.
