Goodbye Useless Amazon Dash Wand, May You Rest Peacefully in Eternal Obscurity

Goodbye Useless Amazon Dash Wand, May You Rest Peacefully in Eternal Obscurity

In an email, Amazon notified $30 credit for Prime members. Or you know, basically free. It even put the damn thing on sale for under $30. That’s the equivalent of Amazon begging anyone, literally anyone, to take its unloved gadget to free up space in its warehouse and mask the stench of failure.

If you have a Dash Wand, after July 21 it will simply cease working. This isn’t the sort of product death where you can still use the gadget, but it won’t get updates or new features. After July 21, the wand will be bereft of all functionality. Dead as a doornail. Literal e-waste garbage taking up space in your drawer, where it was likely collecting dust. Amazon is currently recommending owners to send in their Dash Wands to its recycling program.

Amazon killed off its Dash Buttons ” which also became increasingly ridiculous as time went on ” last year. But at least the buttons died because customers had shifted toward subscriptions and digital automatic reordering options. Plus, Amazon assured existing Dash Button users that they could continue using existing buttons until they crapped out. The wand seems more like something Amazon wants to forget ever happened.

Not to worry Amazon, after today, everyone will.


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

It’s the most popular NBN speed in Australia for a reason. Here are the cheapest plans available.

At Gizmodo, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.