I unshackle her from her pink plastic coffin, download the app, plug the doll into her toilet-shaped charging station, and she awakens.
Out of the box, you download the app, plug the Lightning or USB-C dongle into your phone and choose a scene.
Once you've downloaded the app, plug the device into an outlet in the wall and it should immediately display a four-digit pin with the LEDs on the front side of the Awair.
A compact, three-day on-screen calendar view is a new feature in the latest update to the app, plugging in a useful, at-a-glance overview of your availability for the current and two following days.
Instead of hiring an application development team internally, TrackVia helps firms quickly build and deploy apps plugged into their information streams, for around $25 per-seat, per-month.
It's a veteran in this space, having launched an SDK that let mobile apps plug into its 'platform' way back in 2011.
Social mobile apps plug into channels powered by the activities people share with friends every day, including sending invitations, passing one another on a leaderboard, and – the biggest driver of traffic to apps – posting to the News Feed.
Once they are the default platform (think OS on a PC), more and more apps plug in and then customers (or the 'OEMs' of our time) are willing to pay – think "OS in the cloud" paradigm.
Instead of users harvesting data from multiple apps and places individually within a device, Dillon envisages a platform where more and more apps plug into each other to funnel data to where it's needed rather than sitting in separate silos that the user is required to visit.
And the Hound app plugs into outside services.
