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developer for practical gadgets: WANTED

wondering if there is someone out there that can develop something practical and useful for a kitchen? I am not referring to add flat panels to the fridge to watch TV or similar “innovations”. I am talking of REAL life needs and problems. Let me explain what happen to me (again 🙁 )

Yes, shame on me, I know. I born in a country of such rich culinary tradition, I have a wonderful family which cooks delicious and I do not know how to cook. And to make it even worse, I do not give myself time to improve it (to much gaming I guess 🙂 ) . No, really this time I was working, and I completely forgot the pot on the stove. Of course, as you can imagine and see in the picture below, all was burned. DAMN!!!  (sorry if the picture is disgusting).

Then I wonder, how with so much intelligent systems, “smart” buildings, user center designs and all those stuff, still there is not a useful intelligent stove that tuns itself off once it detects that the food is ready, because the human at charge of it has forgotten to control the cooking process.

Btw, microwave is not an option and those cooking-alarm clocks neither. Nor I want a sign in my mobile or any other gadget informing me about anything. I just want the stove to work and finish its work successfuly. It is just this wish to have fresh food when my stomach requires it, without me having the “must” watch out of the whole entire cooking process. Of course this device should be optional, not everybody (thanks god) are as bad cookers as myself.

 

Pasta burned and stock inside the pot
Photo, of the pot upside down of today’s food adventure :/

east or west (2) ….

just three days after my previous post and, in this race our participants start to move. 🙂 This topic is just facinating.

From china, handheld nintendo emulator goes solar. And as this person mentioned, the solar cell idea is brilliant!

On the other hand in the following video shows the first trials for coding native SNES emulator on iPhone

Nevertheless, as good technology agonisc I suggest it will be good to test any of those first before believing 😉 But without a doubt excites me this topic and the race will be interesting 🙂 . Then, just let ourselves surprise what it will happen next ….

east or west…

as we know there is “trend” of a convergence to have everything in one device.

Right now I am kind of divided myself between Nintendo and Apple mainly. I know there are more players on the field, but loyalty has a price 😛 and those are the ones I know the best right now. Nokia is making its path through my heart, but still is work in process. Anyway, right now I am a complete observer and let’s see the philosophy and creativity of each company.

If you think they are not comparable, well, right now in Japan, for example the Nintendo DS, just need to be a phone, because it can be used to watch TV (digital TV),  listen music, surf the internet, listen music and of course play.  From a bigger console perspective, Nintendo has the leadership of the game market .

Now, Apple is trying to converge as well everything except in games, to my surprise, is quite behind I would say. However here are some attempts in that direction.

Let’s see what it will happen!

mac add

In spite of being a mac fan, I could shoot that guy if I was flying next to him. Nevertheless, I admit the idea made me laugh!

Unfortunately I still see it practically unrealistic (the movie production). If I am doing a video on the road, the laptop’s battery is not enough, it is a must to plug to a energy source.  Some airlines start to think about this, and for example Air Canada leaves on each one of the back sits access to USB connections and electricity. It looks good, nevertheless it will be nicer when it is working.

This is turning interesting!

 

air canada