The food replicators on Star Trek that manufacture piping hot, perfectly cooked food in seconds or the thinking, talking kitchen appliances of The Jetsons' family home might seem like science fiction but the reality is, the thought behind these "sensible" appliances are not so far fetched.
In fact, home appliance makers including GE, Maytag, Samsung and Whirlpool are now teaming up with the technology giants like Cisco, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems to bring futuristic kitchen appliances into these days's homes. These good appliances will keep notes, generate recipe ideas, calculate cooking times and warmth food at warp speed. Oh - and some of these kitchen appliances can even play movies while you wait.
A heap of the prototypes beneath development will never see the outside of the lab since studies show that householders aren't quite ready to fork over the big bucks required to bring these good appliances into their homes. So for now an oven that starts cooking with a telephone decision or kitchen appliances that are networked to a laptop computer can not be obtainable to the average consumer.
But do not worry tech-savvy gourmets, there are some kitchen appliances on the market that integrate high-tech gadgetry that can build your time in the kitchen convenient and fun.
Samsung produces a barcode-reading microwave in partnership with a grocery chain in Europe that estimates and sets the right cooking time automatically when the frozen item is scanned.
They've additionally developed a wireless-enabled refrigerator that options a removable LCD (liquid crystal show screen) that may be used to leave voice messages, post notes, manage a family calendar and even play TV shows or DVDs.
Uninterested in having to scrub your dishes after they have been through the dishwasher? Those days are over currently that the most recent dishwashers have built-in sensors that can estimate how dirty the dishes are, choose the right water softness and cycles for the types of dishes (plastic or china), and dispense the correct amount of detergent to cut back waste.
Wine lovers might like GE's new intelligent wine vault, a free-standing home appliance with cool options programmed at the factory. With a price tag of over $30,000, the wine vault tracks details such as the name, vineyard and year and generate barcodes for every bottle. All the data is secured on a GE server through an online connection.
Induction ovens, which are found in European kitchens for a lot of than 15 years have finally made their manner into Canadian homes. Rather than the burners generating the temperature, induction technology creates an electro-magnetic response in iron or chrome steel cooking vessels thus the "burner" stays cool to the touch from start to finish. The technology is reported to be twenty five to thirty per cent more energy economical than a normal stovetop - and it's fast. A massive stockpot of water will be brought to a boil in as very little as 2 minutes.
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