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Title: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Sidepocket on December 10, 2006, 02:33:40 PM: Do any of these Tech Hardware Companies get the idea of a Kitchen Computer? This pisses me off. I'll give you an example...

Here is the Honeywell 316, a Computer for the Kitchen in 1969 that stored Cook Book recepies and not much else. Why did it not sell? It was huge and expensive. See for yourself.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Kitchen_computer_ad.jpg/352px-Kitchen_computer_ad.jpg)

(http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Honeywell_H316_System_1.jpg)

Looks funny huh? "Awww those poor 1969 bastards! We have better tech these days!"

Well...look at this. The new Kitchen Computer of 2006/2007. The HP IQ770 "Crossfire". The problem...

(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/11/hp_crossfire3.jpg)

(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/11/hp_crossfire4.jpg)

Its expensive and BIG AS FUCK!!!

Look at that kid! The machine looks like its going to eat him! WTF dose this machine eat, live cuban infants!?! @,@;

Nobody would put this in there Kitchen. The closest you would get is an iMac Mini but its a New Age Mac and you need a monitor and such.

When will these fuckers learn?

Step One: Make a Machine that is at its smallest a Nintendo Wii and largest a Mac Mini.

Step Two: Build a Touch Screen on it and a Microphone.

Step Three: Slap a OS on it that is exclusive to Touch Screen and Voice Commands.

Step Four: Give it 8-10 gigs of space. Put 2 USB Plugs on it and a Media Card Slot like SD or Compact Flash for Expansion.

Step Five: Have a suction cup or some device that makes it stick to a wall.

BINGO! Kitchen Fucking Computer!!!!

*sigh*
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: rbcp on December 10, 2006, 03:13:31 PM: Here's a sort of small one:

(http://www.gadgetspage.com/wp-content/P1020120.jpg)

I've seen one that's under the counter, flips up, and is a touch screen. But I can't find it on Google now. Seems like any laptop would work perfectly in the kitchen.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Sidepocket on December 10, 2006, 03:19:14 PM: Yea. The only thing you need to mod a Laptop is to make it a screentop, touch screen, and it sticks to the wall.

So much potental...none is utalised. >:(
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Zerobio on December 10, 2006, 08:01:01 PM: they could mod on of these http://www.flybook.pl/view/galeria how sexxy is that
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: gangals on December 10, 2006, 08:32:24 PM: Wait, which one were you talking about, I was confused...

(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1560/impossibleisflybookkt7.jpg)
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: rbcp on December 10, 2006, 08:34:44 PM: What's the benefit of a kitchen computer anyway? Just to pull up recipes from the net or a database? Why not just print them out on some other computer? Printing up a page is what, maybe 5 cents? At that rate, you could print up 20,000 pages for the same price of a $1,000 touch screen computer which would be obsolete within a few years. 20,000 printed pages would allow you to print up one recipe per day for more than 50 years straight.

Unless I'm missing some other point of having a computer in the kitchen.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: gangals on December 10, 2006, 09:49:37 PM: Just so you can brag to others that you have a computer in your kitchen...

The kitchen is the one place I don't like technology, it's my one place I can get away from it all and just have fun cooking.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: MattGSX on December 10, 2006, 10:55:20 PM: Between our smart stoves, dishwashers, and electric appliances, I'd say we have just as much technology in the kitchen as we do everywhere else, but I get what you're saying.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: . on December 11, 2006, 02:57:08 AM: We provide with the tech support for Beyond where I work and I kind of like the thingy.
you can have recipes and make it to contact your Doc to check if the food is healthy among other really supercool hi tech stuff.

Oh and it brings enhanced FM radio.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: silentneep on December 11, 2006, 01:11:09 PM: Quote from: FB on December 11, 2006, 02:57:08 AM

Oh and it brings a enhanced FM radio.

What strange new technology is THIS?
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: rbcp on December 11, 2006, 01:56:01 PM: Quote from: Something Reasonable on December 10, 2006, 10:55:20 PM
Between our smart stoves, dishwashers, and electric appliances, I'd say we have just as much technology in the kitchen as we do everywhere else, but I get what you're saying.

Yeah, maybe you RICH people have all that. I don't have one single LED light in my kitchen, though.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Raptor on December 11, 2006, 01:57:33 PM: I've Seen PC's built into REFRIGERATORS. So when you are filling your cup with water (in the built in dispenser) you can check your email and order more filters for the water dispenser.
(http://www.xenky.com/news/ITBulletin_files/gs-fridge-large.gif)
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: MattGSX on December 14, 2006, 11:58:09 PM: Quote from: rbcp on December 11, 2006, 01:56:01 PM
Quote from: Something Reasonable on December 10, 2006, 10:55:20 PM
Between our smart stoves, dishwashers, and electric appliances, I'd say we have just as much technology in the kitchen as we do everywhere else, but I get what you're saying.

Yeah, maybe you RICH people have all that. I don't have one single LED light in my kitchen, though.

I don't have a smart stove, either. I do, however, have an electric coffee grinder and a can opener, though I don't use either. My only luxury appliance is a rice cooker that switches from a cooking to serving heat after a certain amount of time so I can not worry about the rice while I'm cooking. It's pretty sweet, but I think my brother may have stolen it from an Asian restaurant. :-\
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Raptor on January 26, 2007, 08:23:07 PM: I saw this coffee maker, with a digital analog clock. Doesn't that defeat the purpose!?

(http://static.flickr.com/27/179003085_12ceebb7f2.jpg)
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Dr P4nyk on January 26, 2007, 08:35:31 PM: Quote from: Raptor on January 26, 2007, 08:23:07 PM
I saw this coffee maker, with a digital analog clock. Doesn't that defeat the purpose!?

(http://static.flickr.com/27/179003085_12ceebb7f2.jpg)

What the hell is a digital analog clock?

P4nyk
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: rbcp on January 26, 2007, 08:43:16 PM: Quote from: Dr P4nyk on January 26, 2007, 08:35:31 PM
What the hell is a digital analog clock?

Asks the man who just quoted with a picture of one.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Dr P4nyk on January 26, 2007, 10:04:04 PM: Quote from: rbcp on January 26, 2007, 08:43:16 PM
Quote from: Dr P4nyk on January 26, 2007, 08:35:31 PM
What the hell is a digital analog clock?

Asks the man who just quoted with a picture of one.

I see a picture of a clock but im not sure there is such a thing as a digital analog clock.

P4nyk
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: afreak on January 27, 2007, 07:00:49 AM: Quote from: Dr P4nyk on January 26, 2007, 10:04:04 PM
Quote from: rbcp on January 26, 2007, 08:43:16 PM
Quote from: Dr P4nyk on January 26, 2007, 08:35:31 PM
What the hell is a digital analog clock?

Asks the man who just quoted with a picture of one.

I see a picture of a clock but im not sure there is such a thing as a digital analog clock.

P4nyk
Maybe it is like laserdisc and it stores everything in its memory in binary, but produces an analogue signal?
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Telcogal on January 27, 2007, 09:19:27 AM: Maybe this will help :o

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-analog_clock
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: M-26-7 on January 27, 2007, 10:20:25 AM: Hahahahah. I like the edit underneath the description.
Just in case Wikipedia deletes it:
Quote
Some more expensive watches do this. Mr. Coffee also makes a coffee maker which displays time in this manner.

In early 2007, Dr P4nyk asked what a digital analog clock was. He didn't believe they existed and was referred to this Wikipedia page. Thoroughly convinced, he slept much easier the following night.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Dr P4nyk on January 27, 2007, 10:49:24 AM: I like the links in the entry that define digital and analog as two completely different things.

P4nyk
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Raptor on January 27, 2007, 05:25:58 PM: Quote from: M-26-7 on January 27, 2007, 10:20:25 AM
Hahahahah. I like the edit underneath the description.
Just in case Wikipedia deletes it:
Quote
Some more expensive watches do this. Mr. Coffee also makes a coffee maker which displays time in this manner.

In early 2007, Dr P4nyk asked what a digital analog clock was. He didn't believe they existed and was referred to this Wikipedia page. Thoroughly convinced, he slept much easier the following night.

So you're the one thats been vandalizing wikipedia...
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: M-26-7 on January 29, 2007, 12:53:24 PM: It wasn't me, but as you know I have. Remember that little bit about the inventor of Linux? They got pissed about that.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: AljonGuzman on June 01, 2009, 07:28:04 PM: This is very helpful because you can store the recipe's you want.

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Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Nod on June 01, 2009, 07:33:09 PM: Please do not bring up old threads. Thank you.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: frog on June 01, 2009, 07:41:27 PM: Quote from: Nod on June 01, 2009, 07:33:09 PM
Please do not bring up old threads. Thank you.

Look at his signature!
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Nod on June 01, 2009, 08:41:55 PM: I just can't win with you.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: frog on June 02, 2009, 08:28:27 AM: Quote from: Nod on June 01, 2009, 08:41:55 PM
I just can't win with you.

You're always first place in my book.
Title: Re: Kitchen Computer Idiotcy
Post by: Nod on June 02, 2009, 12:15:52 PM: Damn you frog, quit making me chuckle.