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Nifty Kitchen Appliances

Posted by emmett on from the food-a-rack-a-cycle dept.

Project Gamma writes "Techserver reports about how being lazy just got easier. Too lazy to read the directions on that TV dinner? Soon you may not have to. Your microwave oven will do it for you with the swipe of the package bar code across a special sensor." Okay, fine, but will it E-mail me when it wants me to stir it?

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  1. This won't last... by MattMann · · Score: 5
    This will never last. Everybody knows in the future our best computers will still not have solved all the problems of natural language recognition, and we will have to ask for our foods backwards: computer, tea, Earl Grey, hot.

    Attempts to keep track of preferences between sessions all fail in the food realm because for most meals people reject cookies.