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Networked Refrigerated Microwave
shades6666 writes "BBC news is reporting that Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens has developed a refrigerated microwave that can be controlled over the net or by mobile phone. The prototype uses a Peltier cooling device.
It expects the appliances to be ready by the end of the year, costing around $2,000."
is Internet-enabled ingredients that know how to prepare themselves and then hop into the microwave!
Great
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When I walk to the pantry from my home office to get munchies for the day, I can take last night's pizza out of the refrigerator and put it in the microwave. This will save me the trip later. At lunchtime, I won't even have to wait the two minutes until the pizza is hot. I can turn the microwave oven on from my office, nearly fifty feet away!
Wow. Technology is grand. I'll hit that 350-lb mark yet!
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I only hope that it can talk to my Bluetooth-enabled heated ice cube tray.
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And I bet defrosting the fridge would go like *that*...
For $2,000, the front window better be an active overlay that renders a thermal scan of the contents of the microwave, so I can see exactly how hot the AOL CD that it's nuking is getting.
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(I wonder how many RC5 keys this new microwave can break.)
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Now I can have my exploded gerbils chilled promptly afterwards.
Sweet!
What percentage of Slashdot users do you think will try to install Linux on it?
How about an integrated metal detector too?
We all know why....
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Anything thats costs this much and poses a potential nuke threat to my beer is just not on.
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Marge, can you set the stove to cold?
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I'd be more worried about some unethical varlet cracking into my meal preparation system and turning my Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam into a small, black, krinkled thing that looks like a strip of bacon just returned from the core of the sun.
"Well, what've you got?"
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Doesn't this sound an awful lot like having a brake pedal that's also the gas pedal in a car? (but with an ethernet port!)
I can just see it now...
"This here is a brake pedal, that also runs the gas! Want to speed up? Push that pedal! Want to slow down? Push that same pedal! Want to speed up or slow down REMOTELY, when you aren't even in the car?!? Just load VNC, and click on the 'PEDAL' button on your screen!"
OOOOH! aaaaahhhhhh!
Some ideas are just too stupid to take seriously. Anybody remember the bar code reader that was supposed to revolutionize reading magazines?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Um, what brand of microwave are you using, and do you accept dinner guests?
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A webcam in the fridge, so I could check if I needed to hit the store...
Yes, you can finally settle the age-old question of whether the light is on when the door is closed!
Wow. That's a genuinely good idea. Especially for my mom, who refuses to believe that there are cooking instructions, right on the box of all places...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
I mean, its cooled, its internet enabled, makes snacks. If it runs quake, it's my new lan-party machine.
And this long long speach comes to one point... That-- OOOO! QUARTER!
If you have all of your frozen meals in those little plastic cylinders that they use at the bank, you could pick your poison, WHOOSH, it gets tubed to the microwave, cooks it, and then when it's done WHOOOSH! have it delivered to the little port that comes out by your computer! If done properly it could even the clean and reload the little cylinder that it delivers your food in!
All you will have to do then is mount all of this up in your fully networked bathroom and you will never have to move again.
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