| NASA Technology Lets You Cook Dinner From the Office |
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| Feb 28 2006 | |
 By combining remote-control technology with the capability to cook and refrigerate food, the Connect Io Intelligent Oven lets you have dinner ready when you get home.
advertisement: The software combines embedded systems and the Web, letting users monitor and control a remote device such as a space experiment — or an oven — over the Internet. After obtaining permission to use the NASA software, Mansbery formed TMIO, LLC to develop the Connect Io Intelligent Oven, which lets users cook dinner from their office using a cell phone, PDA, or other Internet connection.
Before leaving in the morning, users place fresh food in the Connect Io, where it remains refrigerated until a programmable cooking cycle begins. Users enter the desired dinnertime, and the oven automatically switches from refrigeration to the cooking cycle. The meal is ready when they get home. The oven has two cavities so users can prepare two dishes at two different temperatures and times. If your plans change, the NASA software lets you adjust and control the oven using the same Internet devices. |
