The unlikely inventor of the automatic rice cooker

(spectrum.ieee.org)

11 points | by lapnect7 hours ago

2 comments

  • telesilla5 hours ago
    Unlikely? A husband and wife team, where the husband was an executive of a well-known company that made electrical appliances, and the wife cooked rice three times a day using her time-tested method which they translated into a working product together using trial and error. Sounds most likely.
    • bryanlarsen2 hours ago
      And the "magic trick" that really made the whole thing feasible came from an unnamed Toshiba engineer.
  • teruakohatu5 hours ago
    How do the modern and relatively expensive (in my country at least) “fuzzy” rice cookers work?

    I have always assumed the logic was very straightforward heuristics not fuzzy logic because “fuzzy” was once a buzzword applied to many things like how everything is powered by “AI” now.