Ultrasonic chef’s knife
3 years ago I wrote a cyberpunk novel for NaNoWriMo. In it, one of the hoodlums was waving around a “compu-knife”. A knife that you have to pair to a smartphone app over Bluetooth, or it won’t work.
All together now: Cyberpunk was meant to be a warning, not just an aesthetic.
(I know, I know, the article doesn’t say the knife needs to be paired to an app. I feel lucky about guessing it does though)
It doesn’t. The knife is actually really, really cool. I’d heard about it a few months ago and if I had the disposable cash, I’d by one.
AI, AI, AI…
Oh shit a fuckin’ vibroblade?! Sweet!
The AI detects when the machine’s about to freeze up and make noise, so it automatically defrosts before things get loud.
Are we using “AI” to describe microcontrollers now?
Have a machine run something at a certain temperature (or range of temperatures) is about the simplest thing to program.
In a lot of cases “AI” is slapped on as marketing buzzword for anything with even a simple algorithm controlling it.
We got a new “AI” washing machine last month. As far as I can tell it the same as last years model just with some of the auto settings renamed to something AI.
My oven was discontinued and the new on has an air fryer setting…which is just the same as thenstandard functionality
But it’s not the same as the standard functionality. It’s just convection mode, but that’s not a standard oven feature.
Yeah I heard fan ovens are not common in the US. Which makes it understandable there and large Asian cities where space is a premium and letting properties dont necessarily have full ovens either.
My oven ws fan and the new version is fan with an airfryer setting too.
They’re definitely more common in the US than they used to be, but it’s not quite a standard feature yet.
But I do agree it’s a bit silly to relabel convection as air frying, unless the air frying setting is actually different (like fan his faster or something).
Although thinking about it, it’s not the worst relabel since most people are more familiar with the term air fryer.
AI is pretty much any conditional statement at this point. I saw a YouTube video talking about AI in decades old video games.
TBF, specifically for games, enemy behavior has been called “AI” for decades.
“Analog AI”
My kids?
Baader-Meinhof ! I learnt about this recently because my boiler is broken. I assume it’s the strip. Haven’t stripped it down yet
Zeroth Robotics introduced the W1 at CES, a robot reminiscent of WALL-E.
The W1 is a programmable companion designed for families. According to the company’s website, for $4,999, the robot offers round-the-clock AI-powered security, 360-degree mobile surveillance, and integrates with smart home devices for instant smoke and intrusion alerts. It’s also marketed as an adventure companion that can transport camping gear, follow you around the campsite taking photos as a family photographer, and supply portable power so you can enjoy entertainment on the go.
We built a surveillance device that follows you around and uploads images, audio, video, and location data to our cloud servers, which we have absolutely made very secure! We care about your privacy, so your data will never be shared with anyone except our 372 advertising partners! Please bring it into your home today!
I’ll stick with my dog. She’d never snitch on me.
This is so good that I got bothered that there was no source. I found a comic from over ten years ago, with the same theme, but more simpler graphics. It turned out Jake Likes Onions did an updated version of their original comic in 2019 and didn’t add their watermark for some reason.
Anyway, as you were.
Not even for a Scooby Snack?
I was curious what this nonsense looks like - and found out that the $5k is the preorder price. It goes up to $5600 once its shipping.
Looking at it in their videos it just reminds me of every “Robot turns bad and kills everyone” story. Just needs red eyes to replace blue.
Great, more worthless junk
Will the knife spray particles all over the place? Or perhaps vaporize liquids on meats, basically aerosolize salmonella?
A lollipop with electronic waste. Truly a feat of engineering!
Technically we already had those in in '90s
That’s exactly where my mind went
Is this the most bizarre tech? These things seem lame as hell to me. Except for the knife, that’s cool. I’ve seen those ultrasonic cutters used in hobby and industry and those work well. Using them in the kitchen I don’t know about, especially given the price, but still a cool thing.
The panda is gonna drain Grandma’s life savings
We have Vibroblade now
Wait… does that exist in real life? The concept sounds plausibleI just had to read the thing…
Not very far away anymore from calling a plain and simple light switch “AI”.
But I fear the unknown, black hole that comes after that, when there will be nothing left that can be newly called “AI” because everything is “AI” already …
/s
Well don’t be so hyperbolic. Only a three way switch would compromise a network sophisticated enough to be considered AI.
I love that mower one that isn’t shown in this article. Slap a remote control on it and I can’t see anyone getting bored to mow the lawn again.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). Old news
…less AI slop on the horizon?
Where the fuck do you get this optism from and can I buy some?
2/3 of the list are AI products, but we can all hope.
