Easter Eggs In Consumer Electronics?

BBSOD asks: "I spotted this short article in Wednesday's paper. It states that Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) police are going to carry out tests on some models of Nokia phones for what appears to be a built-in speed trap detector. Now this got me thinking, often software writers add Easter eggs to their software so what about designers of consumer electronics? Can my microwave also be used as a personal organizer? Sure it's bulky, but try getting your Palm V to heat last night's special fried rice in under three minutes. So, what extra features have you heard of or seen in electronics devices that the manual didn't exactly feature?" Well, since we've already talked about Easter eggs in software, why not hardware?

Comments

Hot Palms

[Dannon]

Sure it's bulky but try getting your Palm V to heat last night's special fried rice in under three minutes.

I've read about some overclocked x86s that could do this... Get it into a Palm with wireless internet and GPS, and you'd have a great camping tool!
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Hardware easter eggs

[Baloo Ursidae]

Its not much, and its computer hardware only, but here's a few hardware easter eggs.

TI-92 Calculator

[Raetsel]

Granted, the TI-92 is more computer than consumer electronics device, but there is an egg in there crediting the authors.

There's also a lot of other hardware listed here. Look under "hardware" and "other".

A short list:

• Elevators (get to your floor in express mode!)
• Libertel MN-2 phone (tetris)
• HP ScanJets (music, among other things)
• HP Oscilloscope (credits & games)
• Canon Printers (music)
• LG televisions (tetris)

Look at the site for the complete list, it's not terribly long (but it is fun!)