In what feels like the first good use for an Amazon Dash Button, a programmer hacked his button to donate $5 to the ACLU whenever he wishes. In a post published to Medium, Nathan Pryor detailed the ...

Thanks to the Internet, shopping has become increasingly convenient. Amazon and other Internet retailers have extended this convenience to household items, infringing on the usual territory of grocery ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

R.I.P., Dash button, we hardly knew you. Or needed you, for that matter. The Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) device that allowed you to reorder individual products at the touch of a button is no more. The e ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chris Walton is a former Target executive turned retail journalist. Amazon announced that it will kill its famed Dash Button, ...

Amazon Dash buttons never seemed like a very good idea for anyone but Amazon. When the devices were announced on April 1st 2015, some suspected they were an April Fools’ joke. The buttons extended ...

This story is part of a collection of pieces on how we spend money today. Amazon’s Dash Buttons were either the pinnacle of gimmickry—a bunch of plastic purchase-dongles that served no use except to ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon is expanding its lineup of Dash buttons, its "Jetsons"-style devices that let you reorder a particular product with a single touch. The online retailer says the buttons offer ...

Amazon’s first foray into smart home technology, the Dash button, is officially defunct, as the company announced it would discontinue the functionality of all existing buttons later this summer.

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 ...

Amazon stopped selling its Dash buttons earlier this year, which spelled the death knell for the gimmicky product. After this month, you won't be able to instantly order household necessities when you ...

Amazon’s four-year dalliance with plastic “BUY! BUY! BUY!” buttons appears to finally be coming to a close. The Amazon Dash line of physical, Internet-connected buttons, which allowed customers to ...