UWave microwave plays videos and sends messages to Twitter

Refrigerators connected to the Internet, about which only jokes used to go, have long been a reality. I do not know if there are such in the CIS markets, but in Japan, the USA and some other countries such devices are sold for a couple of years for sure. Anyway, now manufacturers create such combinations of “bulldog with rhinoceros”, that you just wonder - who will buy it? Of course, there are also useful hybrids, but still more than those that can be classified as useless. One of these devices is a microwave with a display and connection to the web. The device is called uWave.

In general, right after their appearance, the microwaves themselves were not very popular. Housewives thought that it was possible to heat food on the stove, and an incomprehensible box would only take up additional space. A few years after its appearance, microwaves nevertheless became popular due to the competent marketing policy of manufacturers. Now there is a microwave that can entertain the owner by playing YouTube videos while cooking. In this case, uWave finds the rollers of exactly the duration for which the heating (or cooking) is set.
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In addition, the "smart" device is able to report on the actions taken on Twitter. The action is also of doubtful usefulness, but for the time being that they just do not post on Twitter. Somewhere I read about a flower pot that reads soil moisture, and if anything, writes on Twitter on behalf of the plant that “I want to drink.” Well, here followers can see when their Twitter colleague cooks food or heats something.

So far, uWave exists only in a single copy, this is a project that won first place on the hackathon conducted by the University of Pennsylvania. The display here uses the HP TouchPad, connected to a conventional microwave. The developers are four people: Kevin Conley, Varun Sampath, Benjamin Shyong, and Teddy Zhang. In general, the project itself is interesting, as a curiosity, but the likelihood of its popularization is in doubt.



Via DVICE