A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen

We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES bulletins? Like this premium (it must be premium!) microwave from LG, with a touchscreen greater than your iPad. I’m undecided what you’ll watch within the three-and-a-half minutes it takes to warmth that butter rooster curry, however you are able to do it in superb full HD decision.

The touchscreen integrates with LG’s ThinQ Sensible Residence Dashboard in case you assume it’s the precise time to alter channels in your TV or tinker with appropriate Matter and Thread units, like good lights and er, and different issues. It could possibly additionally pair with the corporate’s induction vary oven to show cooking progress in case you wrestle to crane your neck out of your microwave to your kitchen burners. It’s no washing machine inside a washing machine, however nonetheless, you gotta love CES.

LG is on a trip this 12 months.

– Mat Smith

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