Android's Next Frontier? Your Washing Machine
Android's Next Frontier? Your Washing Machine
Posted 01/04/2010 at 4:28pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Which OS does your favorite home appliance run on? In a few months, the answer to that could well be Android. San Francisco-based Touch Revolution today announced the Android-powered NIM1000 module. Its capacitive touchscreen and relative ease of integration make it ideal for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) looking to “integrate dynamic touch-screen interfaces in a broad range of appliances and devices, from microwave ovens and washing machines, to in-flight entertainment centers and advanced medical devices.”
We are not talking run-of-the-mill household appliances here. Touch Revolution wants microwaves using the NIM1000 to double up as “kitchen command centers” and to tune into some of the most popular internet radio stations. Touch Revolution plans to showcase the NIM1000 at CES.
Even Microsoft is eyeing the home appliance market. Windows Embedded CE is an operating system that Microsoft specially developed for home appliances and other devices with embedded processors. The rivalry between Google and Microsoft is certainly going places.
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dinny
November 24, 2010 at 4:58am
It's official now, the computers are parts of our lives in lots of ways. Appliance parts computers? I guess I saw this coming but I didn't expect to see such complex systems on running household appliances. Touch screen? What's next? Voice command and running your washing machine while you're at the office?
Caboose
January 04, 2010 at 8:23pm
In flight media centres powered by Android would be freaking awesome!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
ferds7
January 04, 2010 at 4:52pm
Not only will I have to worry about my bank account being hacked but now my cottons being dried on high and my milk going sour!
Caboose
January 04, 2010 at 8:22pm
Waa Waa BooHoo!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
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