The best features of the 2014 International CES (consumer electronics show) give us a glimpse into what our homes, transportation and lifestyles may look like in the future. As a technologically-centered population, tech advancements not only revolve around our lifestyle needs, but they also change and shape the way we live. The Whirlpool Interactive Cooktop is one of the concepts that caused a stir at this year's show. I mean, what cooktop would be complete without Facebook capabilities, playing music through Spotify, and being able to find and display recipes from Pinterest?
Activated with the touch of a finger or voice activation, the Whirlpool cooktop proposes the use of your regular kitchen bench as a virtual stovetop – sensors detect the touch of your fingertips, allowing you to control the size, position and temperature of the cooking elements. As mentioned, there would also be access to all of your social media, email, and more. "The Whirlpool Interactive Cooktop concept is inspired by the desire and potential for integrating all at-home technologies into one kitchen appliance in a way that makes cooking, multitasking and entertaining easier and more enjoyable," the director of Global Creative Design at Whirlpool commented.
The Green Room Verdict: Cooking requires us to be present in monitoring the food we're preparing, but there is a lot of 'hands-off' time where we aren't actually doing anything; we're just waiting for something to be ready while giving the odd stir. Without removing our focus from the kitchen task at hand, this technology would allow us to be free in overseeing other areas of our life. We expect to see more of this kind of technology being developed, allowing more multitasking and accessibility than ever before. Perhaps we'd eat out less if cooking was more enjoyable in this way. In any case, the cooktop could be available within the next ten years.
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