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Networked Refrigerated Microwave

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the press-enter dept.

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."

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  1. What a GREAT idea! by de_boer_man · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re: What a GREAT idea! by de_boer_man · · Score: 5, Funny

      > Next year's model will have a Snickers dispenser mounted on the side.

      I don't need that. My second-hand vending machine is sitting there between my theater-style popcorn popper and the second-hand soda fountain I made after reading about it on Slashdot yesterday.

      I have all the major food groups -- sugar, salt, fat, and cholesterol -- all within reach of my computer!

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  2. Two thousand dollars?! by Dossy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    "Excuse me, what's that racked next to the Cisco 7000?" "Oh, that? That's our new stackable 24-port 10/100 switch and microwave combo unit."

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    (I wonder how many RC5 keys this new microwave can break.)

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  3. Doesn't this sound like... by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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