Wednesday, November 16, 2016

"This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong With Silicon Valley Design"

From FastCo.Design:


Automated yet distracting. Boastful yet mediocre. Confident yet wrong.
I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built. Loaded with a camera, temperature probe, Wi-Fi, and algorithms, it'll cost you $1,500. It required nearly $30 million in venture capital to create. It was the brainchild of the engineer who brought us the iPhone’s camera and Ammunition, the design firm that gave us Beats headphones....
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That's just harsh.