Android Oven

Back in 2011, Eric Schmidt (among others) predicted that Android would soon power home devices, including refrigerators and other appliances. Now a California-based company Dacor, known for manufacturing quality home appliances, has announced an Android-powered in-wall oven.

Yes. Its an oven. That you cook food in. And its running Android. Not for the heat, mind you. Thats silly. Its a relatively normal convection oven. Only, yeah. This ones got an Android brain inside it that, well, runs Android. Itll run Android apps, but the real purpose for all this is that itll walk you through the cooking process, and send you alerts when the meal is done. And yes, you can finally play Angry Birds while cooking meatloaf. The company says the smart oven lets you surf the Internet, view recipes, and even enter a guided cooking mode for novice chefs.

Dacors ninth-generation oven pulls together a 7-inch screen, 1GHz processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, Android 4.0.3 and Wi-Fi connectivity, while the UI behind its oven-centric widgets is apparently the product of a design collaboration between Dacor and BMWs DesigworksUSA -- theyre all simple enough to navigate and get things done.

The oven-makers Discovery IQ controller cooking app will offer up interactive cooking guides, recipes and all other things cooking, although youll still be able to install more standard apps from Google Play. The built-in cooking app offers preprogrammed dishes and adjustable timings for several dishes, while you can even program the oven to cook food remotely from any Android device. Youll also get notifications (text message or on-screen) through your other Android device when your meal is done.

The smart oven is a step further for the next generation home devices. Now that android has reached ovens, the next thing could be refrigerators or it could even be a juicer mixer. We could also see an android powered house in the future. Surely the developers are extending the limits of android.