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Cooking Dinner From the Road
Roland Piquepaille writes "After 12 years of development and with the help of NASA's Embedded Web Technology software, the TMIO company is delivering its first smart ovens. You can monitor these refrigerator-ovens from any Internet connection. For example, you can adjust and control the oven settings from your cell phone and be sure that dinner is ready when you get home. But cooking from your office or your car won't come cheap: these ovens carry a price tag of $8,699. Right now, they're only available in North America, but I bet there soon will be distributors in other parts of the world. Read more for additional details about these smart ovens."
As a sufferer of obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is worth almost ten grand to not have to spend my entire day worrying if I did, indeed, leave the oven on.
Now if they could only port this technology for my coffee maker.
Sig Sig Sputnik
Hmm. All has been completed. With this, I no longer need my wife.
My ZooLoo
OH crap, my cell phone is dead. OH crap, my house burnt down.
Did anyone else see the headline and thing the link was going to teach us how to look dinner on the engine block?
Mikey
I've always been the kinda guy to fall for the girl dressed like an eskimo.
$8000.00 to cover the cost of the manufacturer's liability insurance.
Yes! Now I can fill my arsonist tendencies by simply hacking into someone's oven and overheating it! Or perhaps I'll simply get them back for getting that raise before me by burning their turkey on Thanksgiving...beats the heck out of ordering 20 pizzas...they'll never catch me
i think a lot of food doesnt go bad sitting out. i'll eat stuff that's been out for 6 hours if it's not all crusty.
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I can't even begin to imagine how this works. But I'll try..
You're sitting on the toilet with your iBook in your lap. You open up Firefox and connect to tp1.domain.com and are prompted for a username and password. After entering the username and password, you see a field called "sheets" where you type in the number 6, and then you click the check-box labeled "auto cut". You click submit and look ever at the toilet paper and it dispenses 6 sheets and cuts them free.
Once you're done wiping, you check the screen for stats on sheets used, sheets remaining, average sheets per session, per day, per week, etc.
Yes. Totally awesome.
Until they include a fire extinguisher I can also control from the road, I think I'll pass, thanks.
"The upside" is that your food doesn't turn into a swampy mess that tastes like over-boiled ass. Crock-pots - ewwwwwww.
Was it only me who thought that the headline meant cooking animals that been killed by cars?
11. Thou shall obey Da mighty Swing
Man if you can afford $9000 for an oven, then why bother ...
Go out to a funky cafe/resteraunt, and spend that $16 on a well made pizza/pasta/stake and 3 beers.
You don't understand the term conspicuous consumption do you? You're supposed to spend 9K on the oven, then go the funky cafe. Then you tell your companion "Excuse me for a moment," pull out your blackberry and do a few taps, casually explaining off hand that you're telling the oven to put the Kobe steaks back into the fridge and not to decant the 1855 Château Latour.
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