FW: DAILY BUSINESS TIP

["Jim F. Herrold" <Herrold@uwyo.edu>]

Saw this today:

Ovens of the future will be cooking with photons. Stoves will be using
focused magnetic fields. How long before the anti-nukes find out that these
are RADIATION? (Of course, so are microwaves, radio waves, heat, light...
but that won't stop them from making a fuss)

The archived article on abcnews.com can be found at:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CuttingEdge/cuttingedge990415.html

Jim Herrold
Radiation Safety Officer
University of Wyoming

herrold@uwyo.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: paul.smith@sag.support.net [mailto:paul.smith@sag.support.net] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:08 AM
To: Jim F. Herrold
Subject: DAILY BUSINESS TIP
		
D A I L Y  B U S I N E S S  T I P -- Issue Number 373
++++++++++++++Monday, June 07, 1999++++++++++++++++

<*> WHAT'S COOKING IN SMART KITCHENS

Soon you'll be able to throw out your old microwave and
replace it with a "flashbake" oven that uses photons - units
of electromagnetic radiation -- to zap your food.  The oven
cooks just like a conventional oven -- from the inside out
while browning the food -- but in half the time.

Meanwhile, an induction stove can boil water in 20 seconds
by focusing a magnetic field above the burner, heating the
contents of the pot but nothing else.  The "smart" kitchen
countertop uses a computer connected to under-the-counter
sensors that can read tags on food packaging and suggest
what to do with it.

"Someday we are going to have little digital control threads
running through the kitchen," says Mike Hawley of MIT's
Media Lab, "so that appliances are intelligent enough to
turn themselves on and off, not to mention coaching you
through a recipe."  (Jack Smith, "Cooking With Photons"
ABCNews.com 19 Apr 99)  http://www.abcnews.com
Source: INNOVATION, 26 April 1999

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