Oven running an Android tablet

Interesting 'brain' on this oven....

 

 

Dacor Discover IQ Dual Fuel Range

 

The 48″ range comes  with a 7″ Android powered tablet built into the control panel complete with the ability to run apps. The Wi-Fi connected range comes with Dacor’s iQ Cooking App which provides the user “with tools they require for precision cooking.” It allows home chefs to control the range with their tablet or smartphone to do such things as conveniently preheat the oven, change a cooking setting or receive a text message when the meal is complete.

“The new range combines the cooking precision our customers have enjoyed for nearly 50 years with a first-of-its-kind Dacor Cooking App and iQ Controller, providing a convenient, connected cooking experience.”

The Dacor Discovery iQ range does has  built-in safety features. For instance, whenever someone is using the range via the built-in tablet, all users connected from other rooms will be kicked off the controls. The oven also cannot exceed a certain temperature when controlled from the app. The top burners also can’t be controlled via the mobile app.

 The Discovery iQ 48″ Dual-Fuel Range is priced at $11,999 MSRP and will be available nationwide in June 2014. A 36″ range is supposed to be released next for $4,299.

Meet the 3D printer that can make your own shoes

 

3D printers have been around for a few years now, steadily improving, capable of using more and more materials to crank out almost any physical object that you desire (even food), but now it looks like you’ll be able to pop out a brand new pair of shoes too. Thanks to Stratasys’ new Objet500 Connex3 3D printer, which uses rubber and plastic as materials, you can print off almost anything that needs to be flexible – that means you could be seeing some interesting designs down the catwalk soon!

Stratasys’ Objet500 Connex3 3D printer has been dubbed the world’s first multi-material full-colour 3D printer, which means you’ll be able to print all sorts of malleable objects from helmets to shoes, and even potentially a pair of brightly coloured wellies in any hue you can think of. That’s thanks to the printer’s use of cyan, magenta and yellow colours, just like in your inkjet printer at home, and it can combine the base materials of rubber and plastic to make its printed goods varied in flexibility and rigidity – and even transparency and opacity if needed. The printer also features “triple-jetting” tech, which combines droplets of three base materials, and reduces the need for separate print runs and painting.

How 3D printers will change your life
The company, which now also owns the MakerBot range of printers, has said that the printer would benefit designers and manufacturers as a huge timer saver – but it does come at a hefty price. The printer itself rings up around $330,000 (£200,000) – so you might want to wait for companies to start printing their own shoes instead of making your own. The printer launches today, but the flexible colour printed materials won’t be available to buy until further in the year – your multi-coloured wellies might have to wait until the summer for festival season.