Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Today's "Kitchen of Tomorrow" (21 Jan 2006) Kitchen research is also progressing at Microsoft, where Jonathan Cluts oversees a team that projects what might be brought to market in the next 5 to 10 years. "What I try to focus on," he says, "is demonstrating what will be possible and then gauging people's reactions. So it's great when we develop something and people say, 'Yeah, I'd love to have that.' But it's also useful when someone says, 'No, don't make that.' " Among the things people seem to like: recipes projected directly onto countertops (no need to fuss with index cards or cookbooks), an oven that can be remotely programmed from a cell phone, and a microwave that reads a product's bar code and knows how long to cook it for. And that's just the start: "We basically assume that anything in your house that has power can be part of your home network," says Cluts. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/next-kitchen.html Read 55 more articles from Fast Company sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: When Worlds Collide : What happens when a performance artist meets MIT engineers?          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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