• Rose@slrpnk.net
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    16 days ago

    Ultrasonic chef’s knife

    3 years ago I wrote a cyberpunk novel for NaNoWriMo. In it, one of the hoodlums was waving around a “compu-knife”. A knife that you have to pair to a smartphone app over Bluetooth, or it won’t work.

    All together now: Cyberpunk was meant to be a warning, not just an aesthetic.

    (I know, I know, the article doesn’t say the knife needs to be paired to an app. I feel lucky about guessing it does though)

  • Thorry@feddit.org
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    16 days ago

    Is this the most bizarre tech? These things seem lame as hell to me. Except for the knife, that’s cool. I’ve seen those ultrasonic cutters used in hobby and industry and those work well. Using them in the kitchen I don’t know about, especially given the price, but still a cool thing.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    16 days ago

    Not very far away anymore from calling a plain and simple light switch “AI”.

    But I fear the unknown, black hole that comes after that, when there will be nothing left that can be newly called “AI” because everything is “AI” already …

    /s

  • Trilogy3452@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Will the knife spray particles all over the place? Or perhaps vaporize liquids on meats, basically aerosolize salmonella?