George Foreman USB iGrill

ColinM

Due to his degenerative memory problems (he named all of his offspring George - even the daughters, so he wouldn't have to remember more than one name), George Foreman has come up with the George Foreman USB iGrill, to make cooking even less of a memory taxer.

It connects to a USB2 port on your PC or Mac, from where it draws its power. The USB port charges two high-voltage capacitors in the iGrill, and it needs no other power connector. You can download cooking time information from the Internet, and you can even remotely control the iGrill over the web to turn it on to have your steak grilled by the time you get home (provided you leave the steak on the iGrill when you leave in the morning!). Firmware updates can also be performed through the USB port.

Breffni O'Malley has written about it in the OpeningLines section of this Saturday's Irish Times Magazine*. He's only just found out about the iGrill now, but I think it may have been out in The States since eh early April.

Check it out for yourselves here - you really should buy one - they're well worth it!

*So it must be true

Beck Amerdam

If your pc overheats does your food get burnt?

Gordon

ColinM - that's a joke right?!

Funky

not a joke afaik

ColinM

Put it this way Gordo - if I had seen this back in early April, I would have put it in the technology forum!
Cheers,
Colin.

BKtje

not a joke, saw an ad for it in some magazine
(irish times suplement or something?)

Would be tempted to get it if it also had a regular power thingy so i could use it at home and at LANS etc but dont think it has it.
(am buying a regular one tho, very tasty food)

byte

OMG!:eek: Whatever will they think of next!?

Beck Amerdam

B-K-DzR surely you can get a usb to regular power thingy somewhere and use that? Dunno how you'd update it's firmware and get patches for it then though...

DMT

I got one of these about a month ago. It works well. The downside is that it takes half an hour for the capacitors* to fully charge before you can use it.

* The capacitors are actually used to supplement the charge in the lithium batteries, due to the high current it draws while cooking.

Caesar_Bojangle

OMG! Whatever will they think of next!?

Only time will tell

Mossy Monk

that is both incredible and really crazy. i'll make do with the one i have in the kitchen for now

Ronan|Raven

The only main reason I leave the PC is to go and cook something this has solved all my problems! Be handy for at lans ya can go about fragging and cooking lunch at the same time

Lump

That is sooo cool..... The phrase "It does everything except make the tea" seems to be under threat. One would have thought that they would have built a coffee maker version........ Ah I see a business oppurtunity;)



John

eth0_

Eh...click the 'add to cart' button guys.

ColinM

Ah yeah, as ever, the no-nonsense Etho cuts through the baloney to the truth of the matter!
Still though, don't feel bad if you thought it was a real product because it's quite likely that products not too dissimilar to this will exist in the not too-distant future! Sure people back in the early 1920s probably used to prank each other on bulletin boards about fanciful products like televisual apparati that would allow one to see a play in one's own drawing room without having to go to the theatre. They probably had egg on their faces when Logie Baird and Marconi made that bit of sci-fi a reality. Of course, they probably didn't have the web back then either, but they probably did have ftp and gopher. And if you think you have it bad now on a 56k modem - they used to have to go to the back of their computers and tap morse code from the serial port into their phone line, while the maid would wind the handle on the bakelite modulator in order to generate enough voltage to send it to their telephonical exchange. Mavis in the exchange would have had to be notified ahead of time via telegram, of course. They could typically achieve speeds bursting up to 0.05bits per second in this fashion.
Incidentally, I believe there may actually be a USB groinal attachment available for the online gaming market to go along with the head-set and visor (for that totallly immersive gameplay feeling). Personally, I'm holding out for the USB2.0 (or possibly the IEEE1394 iLink/Firewire) version as I believe I may need the extra bandwidth.

Beck Amerdam

I feel tricked, I'd already set aside some room on my desk for it

damnyanks

Just another reason why we need cheaper broadband!

BKtje

Err this does actually exist..


(or at least i wish it did once i saw it was an April fools)

weemcd

aww shoulda known, but we would of heard something by now, and you should be wary of anything with april on it. it would drip fat and blow up someones computer anyway then george would be in the ****.

sceptre

USB port wouldn't have transported enough power to heat a grill anyway chaps and chapettes.

As for what's next, oh the iToaster, Internet Fridge, Remote Coffee Machine, oops, they've all been tried. Always some nutty idea around the corner.

irishgeo

What would happen if it got a virus or got hacked into to?

suppafly

Originally posted by irishgeo
What would happen if it got a virus or got hacked into to?

good point indeed!!!


Man that has to be one of the funniest things i've seen in awhile. I wonder has anybody bought one!!! Lol:D

BKtje

Wonder if anyone wrote to ur man in the irish times to explain to him that it was an april fools.

Ronan|Raven

Well nutsack I had even bought an apron for myself so as to be able to serve sunday lunch to one and all at the next Lan I attend.

MrPinK

Originally posted by sceptre
USB port wouldn't have transported enough power to heat a grill anyway chaps and chapettes.

As for what's next, oh the iToaster, Internet Fridge....

You mean you haven't got one yet?

http://www.lginternetfamily.co.uk/fridge.asp