Microwave makes waves !

How fast can you check your bank account ? As fast as you can cook, seems to claim the
developer (NCR, UK) of the "Microwave Bank", which is an Oven, which allows users to pay bills, transfer money and check account balances, and also shop online, surf the Internet, watch TV and email their friends, and cooks as well. It can automatically order replenishments for spent foods.

The 'MicroWave Bank' has a personal information agent, which knows your health well enough to tell (for example) you to use fatless milk rather than the fatty kind. It has a Touch-Screen input, apart from a Voice Recognition system that gives the user, the choice of not using Keys.
How to connect it to the internet ? It can be connected via the powerline (if such a facility is available), or it can be connected via wireless technologies. NCR plans to add iris scanning and fingerprint identification for security purposes.
The gadget's main task has been (till now) to prove that e-commerce can be 'pulled' beyond the traditional boundaries of PC's and set-top boxes. NCR corp has said that it does not have definite plans to commercialise the gadget.

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[The NCR Financial Services Knowledge Labs is the R&D arm of NCR corp. A look at the projects which are being done presently by them indicates futuristic thinking on the evolving e-commerce markets, and new paradigms of computing technologies. Intelligent bins, M-bracelets, Digital wallets are all part of the game..]

[To have a (downloadable) beta version of a finger print recognition library for a PC, click here..]

[Also have a look at the screen-fridge gadget referred in these pages..]