A candy that plays music while you eat it
This is the sort of misapplication of technology that traumatised me as a kid, dammit
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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When I was in year 5 the kids in the class had been working cutting apricots and they bought tonnes of candy and these whistles they were blowing all the time.
How much did the whistles cost ? one cent.
True story.
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We are getting to the point where we are going to have a real life Talkie toaster from Red Dwarf without the comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HqGSioLCOQ&t=43
We're not too far off given how many apps on my phone by default send notifications like "do you want to do this thing now?"
And so many interfaces that have been enshittified with pop ups wanting me to check out their new AI features.
A toaster constantly asking if I want toast is probably less annoying than a lot of technology now.
This year, it is no longer Consumer Electronics Show... it's now Corporate Electronics Show.
I went myself about ten years back when I worked for a small electronics store. It was literally 70% slop and 20% cell phone cases. There was only one company there that we actually got excited about and looked at bringing in their products. Their products were much better than what we currently carried and our current supplier was a pain in the ass to deal with.
They were imeadiatly bought out and closed by the company we already dealt with before we could even place an order. We only ever received a demo unit.
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I just got a WiFi stove that should be marketed as one of those bad ideas.
My requirements were
- induction burners
- air fryer
The closest I could find had all this “smart” crap, and convection oven was as close as I could get to air fryer
An air fryer is literally a convection oven, so that part was accomplished. But a wifi stove is just bizarre.
Traditionally, convection ovens have a fan at the back that pushes air over the food and around the oven, while air friers have a fan on top that draws the air through the food from the bottom. But for majority of the use cases, the results are very similar and I'm sure convection ovens that work the same way also exist.
Yes and no. My understanding is an air fryer is just more convection. No actual definition but some brands have both convection and air fry. But I couldn’t find that with an induction top.
This does have “convection bake” vs “convection roast”, so I still need to understand what distinction they’re making
I’ll figure it out as I cook more. I do have a countertop air fryer that I was hoping to get rid of (I need the counter space) that I used a lot for chicken breasts and stuff. But the ultimate test is tofu. I’ve never been able to make tofu right so if I can use the convection oven to get the right consistency, I’m golden
Yeah, air fryer has significantly more airflow than a additional convection oven, and the fan is right behind the hearing element instead of on the sidewall.
It delivers heat and circulates it more effectively. An oven with proper "air fryer" function usually has multiple of large fans that go above the heating element.
I am in the market for one as well. I found KitchenAid makes an induction stove top with convection and Air fry oven. https://www.kitchenaid.com/major-appliances/ranges/slide-in-ranges/p.30-inch-4-element-induction-slide-in-convection-range-with-air-fry.ksis730pss.html?
I actually did see this as one of my choices - looks nice, fits my requirements better than the one I got, and is $1500 cheaper!
But that stupid horizontal display is stupid. It meant the range sticks out an extra inch or more and I really couldn’t do that in my kitchen. It also means smaller burner space than the one I got - it doesn’t need to be much but a little extra room to move pans around rather than crowd them
Food for thought: Replace Your Range With a Modular Kitchen
Interesting idea, and a great money saver! I find it strange that portable induction cooktops are so much cheaper and at least seem more technically advanced than a fill sized range.
But yeah, more clutter and probably not great for selling a house. Not for me
This is functional, but looks ugly as sin and I don't see how it's better than an integrated stovetop? Those are also usually separate from the oven so you're still good on the oven if the stovetop dies.
I watched a video about the worst of CES. I was kind of amused that some of the winners of worst-of weren't even new ideas
There was a candy I remember that from a long time ago, idk 2000ish? It was a lollipop you bit down on and you could hear music played through your teeth. I never tried it but it was sold where I worked
Another idea, the worst of the worst, was the smart fridge. I remember from business classes I took many years ago used that as an example of innovation. Or a "smart" microwave. You let it know what ingredients you have, for example by scanning the barcode, so it can recommend recipes or alert you when something is running low
The rendition of those ideas at the CES were so out of touch
It was a lollipop you bit down on and you could hear music played through your teeth.
When I was about 12 I started a short lived fad in my extended friend group of wearing headphones in your nostrils instead of your ears. If you turned them up high it sorta worked.
Microsoft would like to know if a trendsetter like you is interested in an executive position. Pay is in ~~AI tokens~~ discounts on AI tokens and stock.
they will pay you, if you can find a way to shovel more AI into windows 11 than it currently has.
Weren't you listening trend?! The AI is going in the nostrils
I won’t buy AI stuff 🤮
What's worse than that are the fully camera, gyroscope, and GPS equipped children's toys that send all their data to an AI server.
Gyroscope, fine, I can understand them trying to understand how the toy is utilised.
GPS? Fuck off.
CAMERA?! What in the ever loving...
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Now if things you could do with simple if/else algorithms are using “AI”
I'm astounded there hasn't been a legal case already where some AI customer service bot hallucinated and promised a customer a million dollars or something and they're trying to claim it. Set that precedent and companies would be dropping those AI clankers right quick.
there was a case where a consumer was promised something by an AI chatbot and the company tried to renege on it
sorry I don't really remember any details about it, although I am pretty sure that it was ruled the company had to uphold the chatbot response. Oh I think part of their defense was that the chatbot was an external company or something
edit: found it, looks like the same story the other user referenced
there has! AI customer bot said they'd be a different price and they forced the flight company to uphold said price.
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Samsung said in response that “a trade show floor is naturally very different from a consumer’s home environment. Our Bespoke AI experiences are designed to simplify decisions around the home, making life more convenient and enjoyable.”
The South Korean tech giant also said “security and privacy are foundational” to the AI experiences in the fridge.
They deserve to sell none of their shitty fridges.
using AI and privacy in the same sentence should be a crime. almost everything AI does is datamining people.
This is the same Samsung that sold fridges with giant LCD screens on them, ostensibly to help the buyer, but then later turned that expensive screen into a billboard showing ads to the fridge buyer in their kitchen (source). Samsung has shown who they are. Anyone that buys an AI fridge from them will have no one to blame but themselves.
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i saw AI vacumn/dust cleaner being sold online.
Intelligently scans the floor for food particles to know which foods to advertise to you
I'd be unemployed and in trouble, but sometimes I do wish a gigantic solar storm would cut off the internet for a year. Humanity needs the reset. Please stop shoving Wi-Fi into every device.
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Have you ever seen the commercials from late 1800s where there is the word "electricity" in everything. Electrotherapy for every ill and electric solution for every type of drudgery, electrolyte drinks and whatnot. Same came with discovery of radioactivity. Radium drinks for long life and all that. AI is the modern buzzword for the modern snakeoil salesman.
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And they'll probably shut down the AI servers in a few years for cost reduction making the whole thing a huge waste of money.
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Good for destroying them with a baseball bat.
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