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Intelligent Oven

Even the most “kitchen-challenged” folks can produce delicious meals with an oven like this! The June Intelligent Oven has more computing power than many laptops, plus a variety of sensors and controls, to recognize common foods and automatically cook them to perfection.

A little larger than a microwave, June has a built-in scale, high definition camera and multiple temperature probes to identify the food you want to prepare. A 5-inch touch screen allows you to select, for example, how you’d like your steak – rare, medium, well, or somewhere in between? As your food is cooking, the camera can stream live video to your smartphone, from which you can also control the oven remotely. Finally, automatic alerts (selectable by you, of course) will let you know when dinner is ready so that you can entertain your guests while June does the cooking.

You can also customize your smart oven with recipes, link your shopping list with your calendar and save favorite cooking modes for one-button operation. June will be available for purchase next year at a price of $3,000, however, a limited number of units can be pre-ordered now at a discounted price of $1,500.

For information: June Life, Inc., 1805 Broadway Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; Web site: http://juneoven.com/      

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