The most popular dinner in the United States is the "TV Dinner". This is a dinner/lunch box sold as a frozen meal. It is popular among Americans because it contains hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, and other items on a single plate, which can be heated in a microwave oven and eaten immediately.
TV dinner" is a standard dinner in the U.S. This is what "dinner" means: ...... (Image source: Wikipedia user Graham king 3)
Designer Steve Gates presented the design concept of the "brainwave," a tabletop microwave oven for the office. It is a microwave oven for people who want to have "TV dinners" at the office.
Tabletop microwave oven "brainwave" for office Use TV dinner in the office!
The "brainwave" is thin and space-saving. It also has a design that would not look out of place alongside office appliances. If a microwave oven were to sit on a business desk with its design as it is, it would not only block the space, it would also make everyone a bit uncomfortable.
The design of "brainwave" blends in well with the office environment, and it is likely that some people will mistake it for a fax machine and heat up the documents.
However, the microwave's controls have been sacrificed in favor of a smaller, lighter design. The "brainwave" has a few questions like, "How long do you want to heat it up for? or "How many watts to heat? and "How many watts do you want to heat? So how does "brainwave" heat a TV dinner to the right temperature?
Gates suggests embedding RFID chips in the plastic knives and forks that come with the frozen food, where the manufacturer of the TV dinner can input information about how many watts and how long to heat it for. The "brainwave" RFID reader would then read the information to ensure proper heating.
The yellow part of the fork is the RFID chip.
This is read by the "brainwave" RFID reader
The "brainwave" heating information is transmitted via USB to a PC, where it can be managed by a dedicated application running on the PC.
Heating information embedded in the RFID chip is transmitted to the PC via USB, and is then used to determine the temperature of the chip.
Can be managed on a PC application
This "brainwave" has not yet been commercialized. But even if it is commercialized, I don't think it will sell well in Japan. Why? Because TV dinners taste really, really, really sad.
Another TV dinner example Just by the looks of it, it's pretty pathetic... (Image source: Mr. Nard the Bard)
