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The cool thing about a recipe computer is that you could ask it "I have these ingredients; what can I make?"

NCR, the company I work for, prototyped a microwave that had a PC integrated into it - the door was an LCD display. They also did some tests with a refrigerator that would scan the contents as you put them in, then inventory them and e-mail you when you needed more milk and such. The microwave would look up the barcode of the item you'd placed inside and automatically set the timer and power to match. I don't think they ever went any further than a prototype.
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Mark Cushman