I have a 20-something yr-old rice cooker that was left to us by a departing Japanese postdoc. You turn it on, it cooks the rice, then turns itself off. Once in

I have a 20-something yr-old rice cooker that was left to us by a departing Japanese postdoc. You turn it on, it cooks the rice, then turns itself off. Once in a while I get the urge to replace it with one of these high tech units, but then I sit down for a minute, and the urge passes.