The June Smart Oven
A new oven identifies the food you put into it then offers to cook it for you. All you have to do is press “OK.”
The oven is large enough to hold a full pizza or a 12 lb. turkey .Beneath its handle, there’s a 5-inch touch screen and a single all-purpose knob. Within, there are two temperature probes and a high-definition video camera with fisheye lens. It’s got Wi-Fi. And within the oven’s four feet are scales that can weigh whatever’s inside the oven (or even on top of it).
Basically how it works is that the camera takes a good look at the food you put in there—not just color but texture, shape and relative size—and figures out what it is. In the demo, it could tell the difference between bagels and cookie dough, which is amazing, because they look kind of similar in color. June’s creators say it can currently identify about 15 different common foods including frozen pizza, bacon, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, potatoes and even two kinds of fish: salmon and tilapia. Then the scale and temperature probes come in. Gauging weight and internal temperature gets you a long way to cooking something right, and you can do further tweaking right on the touch screen. If you want your steak medium well, just crank the knob.
I think this oven is a breakthrough in visual recognition of food - but it will cost $3,000.
The oven is large enough to hold a full pizza or a 12 lb. turkey .Beneath its handle, there’s a 5-inch touch screen and a single all-purpose knob. Within, there are two temperature probes and a high-definition video camera with fisheye lens. It’s got Wi-Fi. And within the oven’s four feet are scales that can weigh whatever’s inside the oven (or even on top of it).
Basically how it works is that the camera takes a good look at the food you put in there—not just color but texture, shape and relative size—and figures out what it is. In the demo, it could tell the difference between bagels and cookie dough, which is amazing, because they look kind of similar in color. June’s creators say it can currently identify about 15 different common foods including frozen pizza, bacon, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, potatoes and even two kinds of fish: salmon and tilapia. Then the scale and temperature probes come in. Gauging weight and internal temperature gets you a long way to cooking something right, and you can do further tweaking right on the touch screen. If you want your steak medium well, just crank the knob.
I think this oven is a breakthrough in visual recognition of food - but it will cost $3,000.
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