I heard this while listening to a recent Le Show podcast and laughed myself silly starting at the third iteration. It's like these companies go out of their way to hire dumb people to create these "smart" devices.
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What would be better?
Just about anything. Even a UI/UX novice knows that making someone wait for one unnecessary second is a design failure. What's "better" depends on everything else the device does, and GE isn't paying me, so I'm not going to bother with an in-depth analysis. In general, I'd say a device like this light should operate in different "modes" (e.g., regular, strobe, timer, game, etc.), and from a command/admin mode you could choose to do a reset, and then confirm that choice (kind of like every other computer system you're familiar with). To signal their intentions, users would toggle in specific codes (@Jef joked about using Morse code, but it'd actually be a cool retro/geeky solution). For actual security, you could even set up a challenge-response mechanism to prevent random or automated activation.
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