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Inventor: Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens
Here's your schedule: you get up in the morning. You stick a meal in the refrigerator. You go to work. Around noon you use your cell phone to call your refrigerator and tell it to turn itself into an oven. The oven cooks your food so it will be done at 6 p.m. You come home, and dinner's ready to eat. That's the future according to the makers of the Intelligent Oven, an appliance that can cool and cook food and follow instructions sent via a cell phone or the Internet. It even has two separate compartments that can heat and cool independently of each other. Now if only it would do the dishes afterward.

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