“No longer do household machines merely bing or plink or blamp, as they might have in a previous era when such alerts simply indicated that the clothes were dry or the coffee was brewed. … You may be skeptical that an electronic jingle, however holistic, can make doing the dishes a life-affirming endeavor — or even one that might bind you, emotionally, to your dishwasher. But companies are betting otherwise, and not entirely without reason.” – The Atlantic