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Re:Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A by tsuraan on Sunday August 31, 2008 @04:33PM (#291517)
And yet, this is exactly what I've been looking for for the past year or so. Not every computer needs to be a content creation device; I want a computer for my kitchen that's used for retrieving recipes. I can make the software to store and present the recipies, but I can't find a keyboard-free tablet (basically a 10" nokia 770) that would be useful for displaying the recipies in my kitchen, mounted on the wall.

One man's useless junk is another man's dream...

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Re:Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A by netcan on Sunday August 31, 2008 @09:12PM (#291616)
I love that recipes is always used as a way of explaining how useful consumer technology is. I think Apple Lisa had an ad with a women using it in the kitchen.

You'd think that recipes present our biggest problem needing a technological fix.

BTW: I agree that if it's cheap, easy & nice, there'll be all sort of uses for it.

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Re:Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A by orib on Sunday August 31, 2008 @09:26PM (#291628)
I think this H316 tops that quite nicely: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=927

Not only does it store recipes, it has an integrated cutting board!

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Re:Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A by netcan on Monday September 01, 2008 @12:24AM (#291707)
Well well. So now I know.

We've come a long way. From $10.6k, 70kg recipe computer with an integrated cutting board, to a $200, 0.5 kg recipe computer with touch screen.

The start-up that finally cracks this recipe problem will really make it.

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Re:Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A by david927 on Monday September 01, 2008 @03:24AM (#291792)
I feel the same way. I've been looking for exactly this for a while now. I want one for my 3-year-old's room and I'll program some kids games and set it up to go to various kids sites.

I think this could be the computer equivalent of the Flip Video. Simply & obvious.

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