It isn't so interesting to find out what this text editor here or that IRC client there was programmed with, also it isn't really hard and neither are there really suprising things to come out. Wow so it was programmed in Python, I didn't expect that.

What I'm asking is: What are the things that we daily see, use or generally need programmed with?

To name a few (really only a few of those out there):

• My alarm clock

It has many features so it would probably be hard programming it with assembler or whatever, so did they probably use a programming language? If yes, which?

• My electrical tooth brush
• The (stupid) board computer of my car.

(6 years old, has few features but a red LED display showing me how cold/warm it is outside and how much gas I'm using up per hour at the moment)

• Those (old) plastic mini-mini computers with the LCD(?) displays that only had one game available on them: PacMan, tetris or so.

I'm not directly thinking of this but it may be similar:

• Other, probably more interesting, things I didn't mention