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Daewoo’s Voice Activated Microwave
Now that fridges have been connected to the Internet and LCD TVs have
been built into cupboards, it was only a matter of time before someone took
another stab at another kitchen appliance: the humble microwave.
Daewoo’s approach is to give it voice recognition. The Voice Recognition
Microwave is not just vapour-ware though with Daewoo planning to launch it to
the masses next year. It stores up to 40 voice commands and will take commands
from anyone that talks to it. That should be fun in a kitchen filled with
screaming kids.
You can tell it what food you have put in and it will calculate
the time and setting itself before getting down to some serious nuking. Via Bornrich.
I have used voice recognition software on the PC and I must say it's not perfect. I can't imagine how it would be in a kitchen where the person could be a few metres away from the microwave and with many people talking.
Not a good idea in my opinion.
thanks for reading.
Posted by: David | May 3, 2007 11:37 PM