I think there&#x27;s a bright future for smart cooking appliances. Cinder (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cindercooks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cindercooks.com&#x2F;</a>) has made its way around HN a few times, and I&#x27;m pretty excited about it.<p>It&#x27;s not even that it needs to be controllable from my smartphone, but I think it&#x27;d be cool to put some cookie dough into the oven, tell the oven &quot;cook these so that they are just slightly crisp on the outside but gooey on the inside&quot;, and the oven would have sensors and the temperature control mechanisms to do this, then notify me when it&#x27;s time to take my cookies out.<p>It makes sense for such a device to be able to download updates (new functionality, recipes, retuning algorithms, etc) from the internet.