Smart Ovens: The Future of Cooking

There’s no shortage of cool gadgets and new life-altering tech unveiled every year at CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show focusing on the latest and greatest marvels of technology available to the general public. This year, however, proved particularly joyful for home cooks as Whirpool unveiled their new smart oven and forever changed the future of cooking.

Although not the first smart oven to be made available to consumers, it is definitely geared towards making cooking an easy experience for consumers and its attractive pricing is sure to bring in not just new clientele but a wide range of imitators and competitors. In what is sure to spark a race between manufacturers for the best and most affordable smart ovens, Whirpool may have just opened up the floodgates to a new wave of cooking technology that is bound to change the landscape of cooking forever.

Much like a smart home, smart ovens provide an easy and intuitive experience that is nearly completely automated. “Set it and forget it” will now have new meaning as smart ovens begin to recognize foods and automatically adjust to appropriate cooking times and temperatures. With a lot of the effort soon to be taken out of home cooking, the advent of these ovens may just spark a revolution in our eating habits as well. The future seems not only interesting, but potentially delicious too!

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The Technological Advances That Shaped our World

It’s no secret that technology rules much of our modern lives. How many of us would be lost without our smartphones or helpless at home without basics like electricity and running water? But before our modern luxuries, technology played a huge role in shaping our very society. Here are three of the many inventions that forever changed the world and shaped it into the one we live in today.

The printing press. Just about anything imaginable, any human endeavour you can dream of, requires some form of communication. In 1448 Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press and made mass communication a possibility for the first time. Prior to the invention of the printing press books were hand printed rarity, severely restricting the spread of ideas.

The telegraph. The 1830s and 1840s saw the development of efficient and expedient long distance communication thanks to Samuel Morse and his invention of the telegraph and Morse code. Near instantaneous communication would prove to be a game changer and the basis of all communication to come.

The internet. While the internet was definitely a collaborative effort, it’s thanks largely to the contributions of Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn, who invented the TCP/IP protocols adopted by ARPANET in 1983, that we owe the backbone of our modern internet. Used primarily by the US government until its commercialization in the 1990s.

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Is Tech Taking Away Our Sleep?

It’s hard to walk down the street, sit on a bus, or gab a coffee at a local cafe without noticing something these days; just about everyone has their face buried in a smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Between the rise of social media, non-stop news feeds, games of all types to entertain, and even remote work, it seems most of us are spending much of our days in front of a screen regardless of our occupation. One could consider the effects this increased screen time is having on socialization, but even more significant is the effect our increased screen time is having on our down time. Here are three ways technology is affecting our sleep.

We’re more alert for longer. It may be tempting to zip through our news feed one last time before bed, but the backlighting of our screens not to mention the increased brain activity is tricking us into thinking we need to be alert right before we go to bed.

Backlighting suppresses melatonin. The blue light being emitted from the screens of our various devices actually inhibits the production of melatonin, one of the hormones that controls our sleep cycle, making it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep.

Buzzes and beeps reduce good sleep. Not everyone keeps their phone on silent, and throughout the night the various buzzes and beeps emanating from our devices wake us up, even if it’s not to the point of consciousness, and reduce the quality of our sleep.

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