So you dreamt about what you'd like to see in the kitchen of the future, right? Well, if it included being able to tell a machine to cook something without having to get up from in front of the tv, you don't have to wait for the future. You can do it now! I said now!Daewoo's new microwave oven can hear me loud and clear. The countertop microwave oven has a brushed aluminum finish, and though it has a full keypad, it doesn't need it because this baby is voice-activated. It stores 40 commands and responds to anyone who speaks to it. Not only is it voice-activated, but it also has the ability to automatically determine the cooking time with 95% accuracy. Just hope that it's not popcorn in there the other 5% of the time (unless you're like me, who kind of likes the smell of burnt popcorn).
10-06-2006 @11:57AM MJ said... Can you tell it not to make soggy, hard like brick hot through not cold in middle ,and not to burn thy popcorn which is the worst smell in the world...one of!
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10-06-2006 @12:09PM Hawk said... I have no desire to tell my microwave what to do for the following reasons:
1) I have to reach over to open the door and put the food in anyway. Even if I could tell it to open the door, I'd still have to walk over and insert the food, so the extra 3 seconds to punch in "3 0 0 start" isn't really worth having to pause to TALK to it and hope it hears me.
2) I don't like talking to appliances. Text input is very absolute. If you push the wrong button, the appliance does the wrong thing. If you push the right button, the appliance doing the wrong thing is called a 'design problem'. If you SAY the right thing and the appliance does the wrong thing, that's called 'a mistake'. machines aren't supposed to make human-style 'mistakes'.
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10-06-2006 @12:53PM MJ said... LOL,#2! Explained that one better than I, somethings just need to be done yourself.
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