Android-powered microwave brings cooking to the Google OS

CES 2010: I'll have an app with that popcorn

9 January 2010 0:33 GMT / By Stuart Miles

While you'll expect to find Android in the latest smartphone or Internet tablet, one place that you wouldn't expect it is in a Microwave.

Welcome to CES 2010.

A company called Touch Revolution has done the unthinkable and kitted out not only a microwave, but washer dryer with the Google OS.

The company, using the technology to prove a point of what is possible, doesn't make any apps for the devices, but a spokesman told Pocket-lint that it would be easy to imagine what is possible.

What about a cooking app that gives you perfect cooking settings for different dishes? Or one that has feedback to help improve the way the microwave cooks stuff?

Of course, with full OS capabilities and a capacitive screen you could just use it to collect your emails and work while you cook your lunch.

It certainly makes this wacky microwave concept from IFA a couple of years ago rather dated.

As for the washer/dryer, as the pictures show, an app that allows you to manage your washing settings could make washing your clothes a lot more interesting.

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If you want to make it really slick you would add in a barcode scanner. Scan the barcode on your frozen meal and it will automatically cook it at the correct settings ( would also want the ability to specify quantity of food - if you aren't cooking the entire box of frozen goodies). Posted by Jason, USA
No, slick would be using Google Reader to view Betty Crocker's Microwave Cook Book and using Gmail to pound out an email to whomever the purveyor of the frozen burrito your heating up is, and let them know they have satisfied yet again, "the munchies". This is too much connectivity. I do not agree with the concept of being able to work from every device in your home. Time away from work is just that. Posted by Neil, USA