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Does it recognise all my food? "Food ID uses the camera and sensors to recognize commonly cooked foods. The camera communicates with the NVIDIA K1 Quad-Core AR

Does it recognise all my food? "Food ID uses the camera and sensors to recognize commonly cooked foods. The camera communicates with the NVIDIA K1 Quad-Core ARM Cortex and the NVIDIA Kepler GPU with 192 CUDA cores." ~ http://support.juneoven.com/article/69-how-does-food-id-work-does-it-really-recognize-all-my-food http://support.juneoven.com/article/69-how-does-food-id-work... How about an oven that: - cleans easier? - use less energy? - stop me getting burnt while extracting trays? - have simple ergonomic controls? - in-built smoke detection? - a loud timer? - warms up faster? These are all real-world problems that don't require software/hardware looking for a problem. I'm disappointed when I see the novelty approach taken to to solving problems of cooking. I thought this was already achieved with the microwave? Instead what I would really like to see is a way to determine if food is going off, contaminated and where it comes from. This kind of food-tech would rock!

pcl 11y ago
- warms up faster? The website claims a pretty fast pre-heat time of just under 5 minutes, which is probably mostly attributable to the compact size -- a smaller volume can be heated faster. I didn't notice anything about how the heating element works ongoing, though, so it's unclear whether that's just the time to heat the volume of air, or if the walls and ceiling are kicking off enough radiation to sustain cooking at that point. I'd assume the latter, given the price tag. - use less energy? I would expect this oven to use less energy than a traditional home oven, since they advertise consistent heating and good insulation, both of which tend to be lacking in most home kitchens. Again, the small volume will be an energy saver as well. - have simple ergonomic controls? They claim that it'll recognize the food when you put it in, and prepare it to your requested style based on their computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
- silencio 11y ago
  In comparison to a toaster oven though, a lot of the non-smart functionality is moot. Even a middling toaster oven should offer a lot of the same savings/convenience, and a top-of-the-line one is a tenth of the MSRP (e.g. http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-smart-oven-pro.html http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-smart-oven-pro.html).
- bootload 11y ago
  "They claim that it'll recognize the food when you put it in, and prepare it to your requested style based on their computer vision and machine learning algorithms." Speed & energy, maybe. Simple, no. Computer + Oven = Computer. [0] The potential for cognitive friction is high for Homo Sapiens. [0] A play on the Alan Cooper question: "Q. What do you get when you cross a computer with a (Foo)? A. Computer" -- Inmates running the Asylum, pp 3-14.

pcl 11y ago

- warms up faster? The website claims a pretty fast pre-heat time of just under 5 minutes, which is probably mostly attributable to the compact size -- a smaller volume can be heated faster. I didn't notice anything about how the heating element works ongoing, though, so it's unclear whether that's just the time to heat the volume of air, or if the walls and ceiling are kicking off enough radiation to sustain cooking at that point. I'd assume the latter, given the price tag. - use less energy? I would expect this oven to use less energy than a traditional home oven, since they advertise consistent heating and good insulation, both of which tend to be lacking in most home kitchens. Again, the small volume will be an energy saver as well. - have simple ergonomic controls? They claim that it'll recognize the food when you put it in, and prepare it to your requested style based on their computer vision and machine learning algorithms.

silencio 11y ago
In comparison to a toaster oven though, a lot of the non-smart functionality is moot. Even a middling toaster oven should offer a lot of the same savings/convenience, and a top-of-the-line one is a tenth of the MSRP (e.g. http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-smart-oven-pro.html http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-smart-oven-pro.html).
bootload 11y ago
"They claim that it'll recognize the food when you put it in, and prepare it to your requested style based on their computer vision and machine learning algorithms." Speed & energy, maybe. Simple, no. Computer + Oven = Computer. [0] The potential for cognitive friction is high for Homo Sapiens. [0] A play on the Alan Cooper question: "Q. What do you get when you cross a computer with a (Foo)? A. Computer" -- Inmates running the Asylum, pp 3-14.