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Monday, December 14, 2009

Watching YouTube Videos on Your Microwave | WebProNews

Watching YouTube Videos on Your Microwave
Duo Develops YouTube-Capable Microwave Oven

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By Chris Crum

There's a microwave that has been getting some attention this week. It's
called CastOven, and it plays YouTube videos while you cook your food.
Not only does it play videos, but it plays videos specifically catering
to the amount of time you have the microwave set for.

The CastOven was created by two designers from Keio University in Japan,
Keita Watanabe, Ph.D. and Shota Matsuda. Their description of the
CastOven reads as follows:

CastOven is a future microwave oven, which plays a You Tube movie clip
to fit into your cooking time. Watching movies, playing video games, and
browsing web pages are fun, but all of them require certain amount of
time of us to spare. For example, one would hesitate to purchase a new
roll playing game, because it would take him some tens of hours to clear
the game. We think differently. One should not make his activities
adjusted to a length of contents, but the contents should make
adjustment to it.

Our effort around the concept of "Ubiquitous Society" was over. We have
been taking a novel step along the idea of "how those products and
services have users spent their time?" The next business market is
placed at the core, where a time as a flow of user's activities.

Seeing it in action is a little more impressive. Watch the following
clip to see how it works:

Go there...
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/12/13/watching-youtube-videos-on-your-microwave

Ok, pretty neat... But one Big Little thing, that they forgot about. How
the heck are you suppose to see if your food is Burning or Boiling Over!???

Don

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