Toshiba's networked kitchen

This is the day when the machines in your kitchen start talking to each other. Toshiba's rather pinkly and fluffily named Feminity range features a series of Bluetooth-networked appliances controlled by a touch-screen terminal with voice recognition.
The whole lot hooks up to the web, so your fridge (which naturally records what's in it, and the best-before dates) can look up recipes, set the microwave for you, and send a shopping list to your cellphone; conversely, you can look up what's in the fridge via your cellphone to avoid those costly and annoying double purchases of caviar and champagne.
The washing machine can be set via the terminal, too, meaning that you can tell it what you're putting in it and have it do the rest rather than ineptly tweaking endless knobs and having everything turn out a pale shade of pink. Sadly,
they haven't yet seen fit to develop a robot laundry basket that sorts the stuff and ships it to the washing machine.

[Via the Red Ferret Journal]