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George Foreman USB iGrill
luciusism writes "ThinkGeek.com is now selling the new George Foreman USB iGrill This grill is computer controlled, accesible over the internet, and is powered by USB. I couldn't wait till Christmas so I clicked on the "Add to Cart" button as soon as possible. I recommend you do the same before this gets sold out!"
dude, sign me up for one of those!!!
wait, what does it do?? hehe
i sell illegal drugs
GTRacer
- This is a 4/1 thing, isn't it? HIBT?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
That has to be real. No way I would ever think that that grill is an April Fool's joke. Never.
There are 010 kinds of people. Those who understand octal, those who don't, and 06 other kinds of morons.
Great, now even my computer can cook better than me...
you can never tell what is real and what is crap with a C.
The / in
Shouldn't this be from the George, George, George, George, and George department?
April Fools to you too!
smd4985
How long before we get Linux drivers for this thing?
Sad part is I feel for this
It's not firewire? I don't want it...
-RoxyGuy
Can an April Fools joke get any less funny?
Okay, now the world has finally gone bananas, a computer "cooking for the web set"?..
Or way, I'm already considering buying a mini-fridge for my desk so this might not be so bad... Hmmm. I guess I might get one of those grills, but I'm still gonna be a bit afraid that someone will own it via the net and start grilling my stuff too long.
Beowulf cluster (runs and hides until April 1 passes).
There is nothing inherently safe about liberty. That's why so many people died protecting it.
I already have the WI-FI grill !!!!
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it" Richard Feynman
Yeah, but does the grill set the "evil" bit on the network packets?
I'm sure Natalie Portman will be ordering up a beowulf cluster of these grills to cook up the hot grits.
Thomas Dz.
The last sentence ruins it, and makes the joke obvious for even the most thickwitted of slashdotters.
Maybe if it was a USB coffee pot...
The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
No FireWire? Not even USB 2.0? WTF is this? And they dare put an 'i' in front of the name? How dare they!
George Foreman! Pshah! Jimmy Dean Sausages. Now that's a winner.
The Political Programmer
Taco Bell Corporation has announced that they have bought slashdot and are changing the name of CmdrTaco to CmdrTacoBell.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
. . . until April 2nd, when I can start reading news on slashdot again. I don't read slashdot to laugh, and yes, one day a year is too much.
Hey, no fair! I really wanted one!!! :-P
My journal has hot
This is just another way for sun to get an ip addresses in the kitchen...
Didn't anyone else notice the "/looflirpa/" in the path to the product? For those of you who are slow, this spells "aprilfool" backwards.
You should post the "evil bit" RFC story :P
"So, once you know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
MMmmm... salmonella...
Am I supposed to leave a piece of raw meat on this all day until I start it up when I leave work? I really don't see the point.
Trolling is a art,
I won't be impressed until we managed to slashdot one...
Just think of it... post story to slashdot... eat blackened chicken...
this is proof that if it wasn't for geeks nothing really unnecessary would ever get done!
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
Just look at the URL:
h tml
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.s
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" -- Homer Simpson
And I thought AMD's drew a lot of power to run. Imagine what kind of power supply you will need to power this through the USB.
1000 watt power supplies here we come.
USB is so nineties. I'm waiting for the firewire version. That way, I'll be able to remotely burn down my house ten times faster.
This isn't funny at all. The jokes have gotten worse and worse as the day goes by-- I hope this is pit-bottom.
is that thinkgeek actually had it up too, wasnt just a dead link like some of the others...
i sell illegal drugs
The only people that would ever buy this are people with non AMD processors. We can cook our bacon right on the heat sink.
... they got to the part about being run off of the USB cable, it was actually something that you could see being made. If they were going to spoil it anyway, then the very least they could have done is make it a joint Apple project and have it powered off FireWire and have it play MP3's while it cooks and downloads all it's info from the fddb (FooDDataBase).
Maybe it's just me, but does anybody else see a problem with Slashdot using stories as an advertising mechanism? Thinkgeek does offer some very cool merchandise. I'll even admit that this item is rather leet (the iMac green and USB features are cool). But I really do not believe that Thinkgeek having this item for sale qualifies as "stuff that matters". Slashdot already runs banner ads for Thinkgeek... I don't think we need to have advertising appearing in "stories" also.
/<en
So glad they're using 2.0. With 1.1, cooking steaks took hours. I wonder if they'll offer a firewire version for Mac users?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.sh tml
Gee, let me get out my mirror to "decode" that one!
I grill MY burgers on the palm rest of my 12" powerbook!
pretty funny....UNTIL George's legal-staff gets a whiff of it......
Of course, its not quite as funny as some actual products that have been released over the years such as the continuous stream of AOL CD's offering one thousand free hours (in the first 45 days), as if any dial-up user sucked into AOHell would exceed 20 hours per day of usage
Did anyone read the html link : looflirpa reads in reverse ......
aaah! mod me 5 funny
iGrill to cook hamburgers? No need! I've got an overclocked Athlon!
George Foreman grills promise to 'knock the fat out.' .... right.... Let's make already scrawny geeklings look even more like ethiopians... Hehe...
While I respect thinkgeek.com and enjoy the idea of a USB grill, I just had to point that out. %)
Why does every news-web-site feel it obligated to post fake news, on April 1st? Does April 1st even have a meaning outside of the US? Readers from outside the US, will be looking at all these news bits with confusion. It is a waste of everybody's time.
Mad Hatter
I don't know, but NetBSD already runs on it!
Since I couldnt make myself a sandwich if my life depended on it, I would get one if it really did exist... I can just imagine how many people really did try ordering this thing hehehe, Only prob is it's USB 2.0 and I my USB isn't up to par so my steak would take 2 weeks till it was ready anyway... oh well
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
All your coals are belong to us.
You could prepare dinner in seconds!!!
Where is my April Fool's "My name is Linus Torvalds and I decided to quit Linux" article?
...fry apples in it? Or is Apple going to fry someones ass over this?
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
George Foreman USB iGrill
Patch, version 1.1
--fixes conditions which can cause a burger overflow.
--previous version allowed P4 heatinge element to enter powersaving mode. This has been corrected.
Shrinter is something that might have been a hot item for Enron and other fallen companies.
a = april fools = 200 b = stupidity factor = 10> c = dupe = 2 d = troll bait = 2 e = horrible plug = 2 f = involves i anything = 100 g = Linux = 100 h = Microsoft = 2 i = bofh, or any cool network enabled gear = 2 g = something that makes sense = .0001
now (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i)(g)=post factor
if a value is zero treat it as a 1
thus (200)(10)(1)(2)(100)(100)(2)(1)=80000000
now if the total is over 10000 it gets posted, real simple huh, thus the editors are really piss poor bots
Another few hundred of these stories, and you might come accross one which is actually funny!
Thinkgeek has a whole slew of 4/01 products on their main page.
;)
Thinkgeek main page
My favorite is probably the atom collection
http://almostsmart.com
debian:/home/joeflies# lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0500:0005 Gnu/Foreman Grill Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Printer Bus 003 Device 003: ID 07cc:0030 Carry Computer Eng., Co., Ltd Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0110 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1650
Do you think I could cook enough food for eveyone if I made a beowulf cluster of these?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
yet so little planning seems to have gone into it.... Come on, for your favorite holiday can't you do better?
Lasers Controlled Games!
has anyone managed to install linux on it as a stand alone usb grill? sounds like a plan....
Noone writes jokes in base 13!
Because I want to seperate it for whatever I want to do with it
(If you don't get it, you have to watch more futurama)
Try and buy one and you'll see it's an April fools joke.
I'm waiting for the firewire version.
/syle
Well, it certainly doesn't look like it supports Java...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Why buy a USB Grill when I can already fry hamburgers on my P4!
..of this April Fool's prank is that it's a damn good idea, and I'm pissed that it doesn't exist.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
I hate to contribute to this painfully unfunny April Fools joke, but...
This would be a great addition to a water-cooled and/or vapor cooled system. You could store the meat in the case, and then just open the side panel and pop the meat into the grill and click the "Cook" tray icon. Amazing!
Beware, Nugget is watching... See?
...can it play Ogg Vorbis?
but just wait until someone puts theirs on the net and gets their burger slashdotted!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Are you telling me this is a joke? Damn! I wanted one so badly.
Here's a cool site with a bunch of April's Fools pranks that were done. This is just a list of the top 100.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html
A few of my favorites are:
#13: The 26-Day Marathon
#16: Kremvax
#22: Arm the Homeless
#24: Drunk Driving on the Internet
--'Next, I'll show you my balls to your fist technique!'
Has anybody made the seemingly-obligatory 'Cult of the Dead Cow' joke in relationship to this thing yet?
The IGrill Sucks Balls...
Hello, this is George Foreman. You didn't get permiseon to use my name in your April Fooles Joke. I am going to sue you now.
George.
I knew this would happen! Right after I buy my iGrill with a parallel port connection, they go out and release this cool USB model.
This is driving me crazy, from now on I'll have to get all new kitchen appliances to be compatible with the latest interface connector.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.sh tml
looflirpa is backwards for aprilfool...
Now if I could only get my laptop to set the table.
The sum of our knowledge today becomes the reference point of our ignorance tomorrow.
I sure hope this is april fools- I wouldn't trust a grill being on when I'm not in the room. Great way to start a fire;
Is it wrong that I actually want one of these?
NO CARRIER
I think they should actually DEDUCT GeekPoints if you put this in your cart.
is only for the flambe option.......
HA! Gotcha! April Fools, silly monkey!
The mistake here was mentioning another holiday. Gave it away immediately.
That, and you don't use USB for cooking. You use Firewire.
Now even your FOOD can DoS!
Yeah, but do you remember those ads (was it General Electric) where all these applicances were being sent "to university" to become smart? I never did understand why anyone would want an internet-enabled 'fridge or microwave. Okay, so you fridge can tell you your milk is out of date. If it it can't take it and throw it away for me, just what the hell is the point?
So, funny as this story is, there are people seriously trying to give brains to applicances that are just fine as they are.
Apple allowed the use of it's patented "i" prefix for software and hardware only on the condition that George Foreman would sponsor apples new quicktime exercise video "iBod". And that the firewire version of iGrill be limited to apple hardware. There are on going discussions on creating a cheaper "eGrill" but George isn't happy with the color white.
Hmmmm. Someone needs a hug. And a new account - this one's hitting the negative karma really quick.
1. First of all there is a tradition of fooling people on the first day of april...that's kinda why we call it April Fools Day in the first place.
/. didn't come up with a gag of some kind, most of us here would think of something and prank someone. It's part of the tradition mentioned above.
/. always and I mean *ALWAYS* pulls something like this every year. Sometimes it's the "Find the fake story", others it's the "Find the real story" game. If we all know that they do this then why don't you pissed off people go and read something else today.
2. If
3. We all know that
People in here need to chill out. They way that half of the people in here are bitching I think they must really need to get laid.
-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
This similarly wacked out product IS NOT:
Who brushes their teeth by their computer!?!?
just = (My)Opinion.toCents();
1. Raise and Lower temperature
2. Raise and Lower lid
3. Replace grease spill tray
4. Replace "cooked" meat with "fresh" "uncooked" variety
So who's gonna be first?
You're right...
/. is not anyone's but EVERYONE'S. The owners of /. CAN do whatever they want. However, likewise, the owner's whole idea was that the posters speak their mind, including his, yours and mine. Here are mine...
/. are nerds
:P Have a nice day.
Indeed,
[1] Most people on
[2] April fools joke or not it's still advertising, they are getting hits from the link. [3] Why are YOU so upset?
[4] Nerd implies smart. "Retarded nerd"?
[5] Using the word fuck so many times in one sentence detracts from the impact of the word.
[6] I'm probably the only one that will reply to your message. Some may wonder why I replied to an obvious flame bait. I like the taste of it. Besides I have nothing to do for the next five minutes waiting for a meeting.
PS. I hope this makes you feel stupid for posting it. Don't bother replying. I never check. I don't like to give people like you the satisfaction.
"Last one in is a rotten goblin!" - Kepp
Internet-accessible cooking is all fun & games until someone starves to death as a result of Denial of Supper attack..
In SOVIET RUSSIA, April fools are on YOU!
Jesus fucking christ. It's 10:46PST, and I'm so sick of Dumbass April Fools jokes!
Admittedly, I was falling for the Gentoo/RPM one, but the rest were damn obvious.
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
> Your steriotypical geek is incredibly scrawny and has no fat on him
Oh, sure. None whatsoever.
Dumbass
I don't see any reply to comment links in comments after a parent comment.
Anyone else having this problem, or was there a recent change I didn't read about?
#include "monty_python_bruces_sketch.txt"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Guess they used up all their Photoshop skillz cranking out the main page image.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA GEORGE FOREMAN GRILLS YOU
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
it's a fact.
P
Can we stick CmdTaco into one and grill him shut?
Until I saw the picture. Nice one! Almost as funny as the iToilet
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
How about the iBrator, would be a lot more "fun" having a Beowulf cluster of these little babies rather than a bunch of grills ;) (unless the users are into S&M)
Although I don't know wether ThinkGeek would ever stock them (if they existed of course)!
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
I thought that the items from last year where better. ALthough I still think that they should let you put these items on your wish list. I know I can't buy them, since they aren't real, but I wish I could have a Desktop Zero-Point Infinite Power Generator or the George Foreman USB iGrill.
madness takes its toll please have exact change
without a Wi-Fi FirstAlert Fire Alarm. So you know when to turn off the grill.
BTM
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
It's really a rather neat idea, if you think about it, and even plausible (except the rather obvious sentence about how it needs no external power supply).
Computer-controlled cooking? Heck yeah I'd buy it, since I have a tendency to endanger the entire household whenever I step into the kitchen. Seriously, I can't even make microwave popcorn without painfully-detailed instructions (and you could probably still get Salmonella from it!).
Curse you, Taco... I would have bought this, even in that stupid dayglo color choice...
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
I have a feeling that today's date has more to do with this than anything....
The Democratic Party: We've been pussies since 1968!
The only problem is that you have to call Microsoft and have them approve each meal before you can cook it. And the FBI is trying to get a
bill passed to let them tap into it and record everything that you eat.
--- Brian
Abort, Retry, or Burn?
Whirlpool Polara GR556LRK combines an oven and cooler.
Infuriate left and right
Translucent plastic? USB?
.. the world's first combination microwave oven and 802.11 access point. Since microwave ovens and 802.11 operates in the same unlicensed band, it makes perfect sense! Just take the original GE Monogram microwave oven, add a data modulator, remove the door, and you have a convenient, high-power* access point the whole family can use**!
That's SO year 2000.
These days, it's matte white and WiFi.
Personally, my vote goes for the GE Monogram NetRange
* 800W transmitter may exceed FCC limits.
** Electromagnetic interference is unpredictable. Unit may cause death.
Ah, I wish I had time to photoshop up a fake ad for this....
It might be an aprilfools joke, but my class bought it. hook line and sinker.
snowulf.com
No bleedin' way.
ceci n'est pas un sig.
... Toxic Hell
Infuriate left and right
Jack
Powered by AMD
Set to 1Ghz for Hamburger or 2Ghz for a steak.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Its a great idea for a joke but the image just looks too fake. They at least could have made a picture with George Foreman in it with that big smirk. But the specs are the best part. Cooking a patty in 1:45 that is damn quick but it can't compare to McDonald's grill offs where people can grill a patty in less than 20 seconds. But really the grill can't be beat. Imagine the possibilities of remote grilling over the internet how good can you get? All you need is Fujitsu's Linux Powered Robot to load up the grill.
Checking out my form of escapism.
ok, back to work
sic transit gloria mundi
Suggestion: Everyone who's pissed about this should boycott the site for a month. That's the only way to get the message across that we don't want our time wasted.
No way dooderz this thing is :cool:
http://www.dct-net.co.jp/special/usb_hot.html
I SO need one of these. If only I knew someone in Japan.
but does it run Wheatonix, which ThinkGeek was selling this time last year?
I just 0wnz0r3d your hamburger patty.
Breaking News!!
The George Foreman iGrill now provides an 'evil bit' that can set to infuse the food with "the essense of evil" as it cooks, while still draining unhealthy grease and oils.
Super villains worldwide are lining up at their local geek-shops waiting to get their villainous hands on one. Healthy people around the world are doomed!
As an additional added bonus, upon purchasing the now infamous iGrill, you will receive a coupon that will ensure that you dont pay alot for your next muffler.
More at 11:00.
http://www.digifuzz.net
Here. Includes USB blanket, USB toothbrush and USB coffee warmer. And that stuff isn't dated April 1.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Someone PLEASE tell me why I'd want to buy a clone of BillyG. Please. I just can't figure it out.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Gives new meaning to the term "hot plugging".
Using the USB current to directly charge high voltage capacitors, the iGrill does not require any additional power supply, making it perfect for dorm or office cooking.
According to the USB specifications USB only needs to provide 2.5W per device (5V x 500mA), they couldn't resist laying extra emphasis on powering that grill only via USB power supply.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
Unfotunately, it's also powered off USB, so it takes about 40 hours to cook a burger. You'd be better off putting the food directly on your CPU.
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
Am I the only one who isn't sick of this already.
No thanks, I'll wait for the Bluetooth version.
But it only works with a (Big) Mac....
And you'll soon be able to have the grill and the refrigerator working together to prepare the entire meal. If you're one egg short, it could even send an imessage to the grocer to order more. But unfortunately, that will only work when we teach the frig how to answer the door when the delivery person shows up.
George Foreman is so innovative; he is like a modern day Thomas Edison.
It actually looks almost identical to an accessory being sold with a real Foreman grill (in this months Makro catalogue if you're in the UK), described as a "translucent bun warmer" - same colour/size etc etc.
Why not use bluetooth and give it it's own power supply? Leave it in the kitchen, get yourself the bluetooth Oven, Mixer, et al. You could program your meal from across the world (or across the room). They could all talk to each other so they know the doneness and adjust appropriately so that everything is done at once! Although the Microsoft Toaster Service Pack 3 might enable them to find out if you are using white or wheat bread, thus being able to control the grain markets in the future.
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
This idea lacks some watts
Too bad you really can't buy a Linux is for dweebs shirt off thinkgeek. I've got several friends with upcoming birthdays, I'm sure they'd love to have that to go along with their other Linux attire.
scott
Does it play OGGs?
If it won't cook me an Ogg breakfast, I don't want it!
unless it plays ogg files. And I'm not falling for that "a bios update will come soon that supports ogg" again. That's how I got tricked into buying an iToilet!
This may be closer to real than you think.
Among other silly concepts at this site, we have the internet microwave oven
or
Another internet-controlled microwave and health monitoring toilet.
or
The "other" Echelon, who are into "Internet Control of Restaurant Management"
ThinkGeek has a long tradition of April Fools' jokes. Look at the other stuff on their front page - it's absolutely a joke.
looflirpa is April Fool spellt backwards.
ph33r.
Extraordinary Vacations. Exceptional Prices
Someone keeps putting pictures of improbable USB devices seen in Japanese stores on HardOCP. Stuff like electric blankets. I found the idea of a USB Foreman Grill plausible until they claimed it was powered from the 100 millivolt USB connection :)
Personally I think monkeys are silly, and if someone is acting silly you can call them a monkey. But apparently that's only true if they are not black? I once called a black guy a silly monkey and he got all pissed off. I had to explain to him that if I didn't call him a silly monkey because he was black, but did call all the other people silly monkeys because they weren't black, then I would be discriminating against him by singling him out based on his race. Thus, to be non-racist everyone, even he, is a silly monkey. He didn't agree and kicked the shit out of me. Silly monkey indeed. What do you think? (not off topic, as when you click add to cart ThinkGeek calls you a silly monkey)
Beats the IPv4 silly bit repeat stories!
Let's see, thats 1500watts thru USB2.0....
Hmmm...
Relive the BBS Past - One Byte at a Time! www.ssabbs.com
Did anyone else catch that the action = 42? Nice touch, thinkgeek!
Suncoast Linux - Sarasota, FL
Jini?
My notebook outfitted with a solar power supply, satellite internet uplink, and the new USB George Foreman grill.
Bring on those dinks at Survivor!
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Beats the heck out of my ol' crockpot's serial interface. Thank you George.
Even funnier...
These are REAL usb powered devices:
USB electric blanket
USB hot coffee mug
This is simply a (il)logical progression:
Fan->Toothbrush->Hot Cup->iGrill
http://www.kensington.com/html/1265.html
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/2003
http://www.dct-net.co.jp/special/usb_hot.html
props gizmodo!
If there were a beowulf cluster of these operated by a petrified natalie portman while she pours hot grits down my pants!
Oh yeah...
All your George Foreman Grill are belong to us!
Someone set us up the George Foreman Grill!
Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM
If this were real. Two months to the day it comes out someone finds an exploit to get control of your computer through the iGrill connection. Getting your computer grilled by an iGrill would really suck.
BMaximus
While at Thinkgeek I'm ordering me a: Shrinter
and a Executive Atom Collection
Check out their other new products at Thinkgeek.
SCO (noun.)- A Slimy Corporate Ogre. Often seeks free money.
consider this: you're PC power supply is likely 250W, total. the USB spec (I believe is 2A at 5V). the power ain't going to be there. I think that my REAL George Forman grill is well over 500W. enough said.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
Wait until that 3v1l bit (packet) gets hold of your iGrill - you'll be eatin' salmonella chicken and green burgers in no time!
On a serious note, George Foreman grill is a great product. You don't need to spend $5k on a Viking range to achieve the same results.
For April 1, I changed my company's local DNS servers so Yahoo resolves to Google's IP, Google resolves to Altavista, and Altavista resolves to Yahoo.
So far, nobody's noticed. Damn.
The Feed the Homeless Initiative at one organization is asking for donations of grill time. This distributed grilling project will attempt to make the world's biggest grilled cheese sandwich one small section at a time. Please help if you can!
Hey, at least "a" and "j" rhyme.
Charge 'em up at 2volts, release all at once to flash fry the food.
Yum.
I wonder how many capacitors it would take for that.
Are there Linux Drivers?
And does it work on any other day than April 1?
I take no responsibility for what I say. Even though I'm never wrong
I use the bottom of my laptop to cook all of the stuff I eat.
With no way to send food from my work to the iGrill, I definitely can set it, and can't forget it.
Given the amount of cooking I do with my GF grill and that it takes like 10 minutes to heat up...
I want one! I could leave my shitty job and come home and eat my burgers.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/LOOFLIRPA/igrill.sh tml
the bold part of the URL (emphasized by me) read backwards should tell you the nature of this story.
They're great! The web interface makes them work over a LAN, and I hooked mine up to my .plan so I can see if my burger is done or not while I am in another office.
_ ___________ ___________
The GFDK (George Foreman Development Kit) that you can download off their site is really rockin', too! All you need is a compiler like gcc, and you can make your own modules. I used perl for more complicated meats, like fillet mignon.
Note: this does not cook as well as my P4/3.06ghz and NVidia together, but it's really handy because I was always too lazy to clean the grease from the fans anyway, and when I wrapped stuff in foil, I tended to short out my mobo.
Cool think is, I got it to work with Quake, and when I'm getting fragged, I can smell the meat cooking! I may be gibbed meat product, but that doesn't mean I go hungry.
Mmm mm! That's good gibbed meat sizzling!
______________________________________
www.punkwalrus.com - quality bantha pudu for the masses
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.sh tml /looflirpa/ /aprilfool/
reversed becomes
ét voilá
How many dental cleanings does it take to cure Blue Tooth?
igrills are for ifools
With the trend-setting iGrill, does this mean that I'll finally get a chance to buy an iToast that /. originally advertised?
My grill telling me 1 Oz3D J00 M34T.
I think the shrinter over at thinkgeek was pretty damn funny. Altough I hate hard-copy so this would be the perfect gift for me. :)
Ansi's and stupid tricks!
Think about the fire hazard associated with running a george forman grill from the office. This is obviously a ploy by Microsoft to burn nerds out of house and home. Then they can finally kill the open source movement. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
...as well as MS's patent on computer-assisted living. I bet sales of traditional countertop grills are already plunging.
Somebody should design a tiny device specifically to run the "iGrill", one that has a bunch of little control knobs on it. That way, you wouldn't even need a computer to run it...think of the possibilities!
Upon closer inpection of the "iGrill", it appears to be smaller than an average-sized laptop (using its USB plug as a relative size comparison). I see this as an insult....George Foreman thinks of geeks as overweight slobs and thus made an incredibly small grill to prevent the slobs from adding too much mass to the bodies. Perhaps this is a good thing? yes....i know it's not real. i sort of wish it was....
The sad part is that all this stuff is the exact stuff that would've got you 20 million in venture capital three years ago. Amazing how times change.
This already exists. Just remove your heat sink, and replace it with a decent-sized slab of meat. Overclock your computer incessantly, and in no time, blammo! Hamburger/Chicken Sandwich/Cooked Haggas!
...because if you do a lot of cooking, the grease can cling to the underside of the unit and drip elsewhere, thus causing you to panic because of 'bad trap' errors...
Imagine the looks of coworkers as they pass your cubicle, to see a grill cooking a steak, that is plugged into your usb port!! The smell drifting across the office. The look the CIO would give you.
Maybe we can still get one.... Anybody know of a USB power inverter, I could hook up my normal george foreman, and use electrical tape to make it look authentic.
Remember that you are unique, just like everybody else.
Oh, they exist alright. Not the usb thing, of course, but a battery powered one that looks like that.
'course, I'm in the office, and I can't browse 'tool' sites from here, so you'll have to trust me on this.
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Ranks up there with Sock City for bad business ideas. George!
I personally can't come up with too many occasions where I'd need to have more than a couple of those puppies around.
Unless you get into some really interesting stuff at your lan parties.
-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.
as the worlds largest remote controled car. Doesn't say if it has a USB 2.0 port.
h tml
Did anyone actually stop to look at the URL? http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/LOOFLIRPA/igrill.s
me thinks this was an April Fools joke... and it seemed to have worked :P
--- WAL
I wonder what part of his brain is dead now?
25% - Name all children George
50% - create George Forman Grill
75% - "i"ilize Grill with USB
100% - ????
Life is like a jar of jalapeños, what you do today may burn your ass tomorrow.
some people might sit on their grill...
imagine this:
dave@box:~$ telnet moronpc
Trying 666.666.666.666...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
login: cook
password:
Login incorect
telnet> quit
dave@box:~$ crackgrillpwd 666.666.666.666
ok... password is ICOOKSHIT
dave@box:~$ telnet moronpc
Trying 666.666.666.666...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
login: cook
password: ICOOKSHIT
% set setting "max"
max
% set power "on"
on
I used to work at a department store that had a housewares department. We sold George Forman grills, and we would no sooner have them stocked on the selling floor than they would be sold-- they were that popular.
To me, this seems like the next logical step for the George Forman grill line. Hungry? Have an available hunk of raw meat nearby? Maybe in your brown bag? Got some spare CPU cycles? (most everybody does) Boy, are you in luck! Just plug that grill into your USB port, and in about 10 minutes...Lunch! Lean, mean, and grilled to perfection!
Okay, I'll get out of Ron Popeil mode, and just say that I hope it comes with Linux drivers-- I'm just concerned it will get a little underdone if you run it with Windows ;)
?tahW siht si na lirpA slooF ?ekoJ
Always look on the briight side of life! (whistle, whistle)
...hooks this somewhat useful contraption up to a computer and this makes slashdot headline news?
what in the fuck has gone so completely wrong with the geek world that we find attaching a hamburger grill to a computer and making it "accessible" even somewhat interesting?
yeah, my karma is bad, but, every time i read anything on this website anymore, i wonder why i even care.
we're geeks, not fucking morons.
we'll be waiting till next Christmas before even one bacon rasher is so much as luke-warm.
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
George iGrill has caused a general protection fault in module HAM00x1224. Your hamburger is now burnt! Press control + alt + del to reboot or waitan indiscriminate amount of time for nothing to happen.
The George Foreman Lean Mean CPU Coolin' Machine. Ever fired up lm_sensors and wondered if you could fry an egg on your heatsink? Well, now you can!
Optional grease tray can keep your fans lubricated. Approved by AMD.
AP/STT. Helsinki, Dec 5th, 6:22 AM. For immediate release.
In order to allay fears about the continuity of the Linux project, Linus
Torvalds together with his manager Tove Monni have released "Linus
v2.0", affectionately known as "Kernel Hacker - The Next Generation".
Linux stock prices on Wall Street rose sharply after the announcement;
as one well-known analyst who wishes to remain anonymous says - "It
shows a long-term commitment, and while we expect a short-term decrease
in productivity, we feel that this solidifies the development in the
long run".
Other analysts downplay the importance of the event, and claim that just
about anybody could have done it. "I'm glad somebody finally told them
about the birds and the bees" one sceptic comments cryptically. But
even the skeptics agree that it is an interesting turn of events.
Others bring up other issues with the new version - "I'm especially
intrigued by the fact that the new version is female, and look forward
to seeing what the impact of that will be on future development. Will
"Red Hat Linux" change to "Pink Hat Linux", for example?"
-- Linus Torvalds announcing that he became father of a girl
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