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Category: Connected Kitchen

  • Feb 28, 2024

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    Connected Kitchen, News, Smart Home

    GE Appliances Debuts EcoBalance and Its Vision of the Kitchen as Integral Part of the Home’s Energy Management Network

    This week at KBIS, Haier subsidiary GE Appliances focused much of its, um, energy on getting the message out about its new EcoBalance Home System, a new whole-home home systems energy management platform that it has been working on for much of the past decade. The first announcement about EcoBalance was unveiled about two weeks…

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  • Feb 9, 2024

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    CES, Connected Kitchen, News

    Fresco Deal With Panasonic Brings Device Control & AI-Powered Planning to HomeCHEF Multi-Oven Lineup

    At CES 2024, Panasonic announced that it had struck a deal with smart kitchen OS startup Fresco to integrate the Fresch kitchen OS platform with the Japanese brand’s multi-oven countertop cooking appliances. The deal covers the US market and will see Fresco’s technology bring a new set of connected features to Panasonic’s multi-oven products, the…

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  • Sep 6, 2023

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    Connected Kitchen, Electrification, Induction Cooking, News, Smart Kitchen Summit

    Silicon Valley is Betting Big on Home Electrification. Will It Pay Off In The Kitchen?

    This week, news of a new home electrification startup hit the wires. Founded by former Google Ventures partner Rick Klau, Onsemble builds technology to convert electric water heaters into what the energy industry calls a virtual power plant (VPP). VPPs act as aggregators and coordinate between independent distributed energy resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar…

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  • Sep 1, 2023

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    Connected Kitchen, News, Podcasts, Robotics, AI & Data

    Food Tech News: Samsung Heads Into the Kitchen, Robot Meets Artisan Pizza

    The Spoon is back for another week of food tech news, and this week Michael Wolf and Allen Weiner talk about what’s going on in the smart kitchen, alt protein, CRISPR and more. Here are the stories we talk about: As always, you can just hit play below to listen to the podcast, head to…

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  • Aug 31, 2023

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    AI, Connected Kitchen, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    With the Launch of Samsung Food, Samsung Hypes AI & Consolidates Food Features Acquired Over the Years

    Over the years, Samsung has acquired and launched several products in an effort to become the king of the tech-powered kitchen. First, there was the launch of the Family Hub refrigerator, the company’s attempt to create a smart fridge built around the company’s own operating system and packed with technology like fridge cams to identify…

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  • Jun 28, 2023

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    AI, Connected Kitchen, News

    SEERGRILLS Unveils the Perfecta, an ‘AI-Powered’ Grill That Cooks the ‘Perfect Steak’ in Two Minutes

    AI is seemingly everywhere nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before it would show up at the backyard BBQ to help us cook the perfect steak. That’s the vision of a UK startup named SEERGRILLS, which debuted the Perfecta this week, which the company describes as the world’s first AI-powered grill. The…

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  • Jun 13, 2023

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    Connected Kitchen, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    Thin Margins & Competitive Moats: Analyzing Instant Brands Journey to Bankruptcy

    Instant Brands, the parent company behind the Instant Pot, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, as first reported by Bloomberg. The company, which also owns the Pyrex glassware brand, announced they’d reached a deal for a new $132.5 million financing line of credit to support the company as it navigates the bankruptcy process and…

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  • Feb 6, 2023

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    Cloud Kitchens, Connected Kitchen, Future of Recipes, News

    CloudChef Wants to Capture a Chef’s Knowledge in Software to Recreate High-Quality Cuisine Anywhere

    What if you could digitally record the best chefs in the world as they make their culinary masterpieces? And what if you took that knowledge and encoded it into software that enabled everyday kitchen workers across the globe to recreate these dishes without specialized training? That’s the idea behind CloudChef, a new company that wants…

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  • Jan 31, 2023

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    Connected Kitchen, News

    Samsung Wants You to Put Generative Art on Your Refrigerator

    Today Samsung launched a new line of custom refrigerator art produced by generative AI. According to Samsung, the new collection was created by Matt Jacobson, an artist who “uses computer code as his paintbrush.” Jacobson used computer algorithms to create 100 generative art prints designed for Bespoke refrigerators. Generative art – art created using an…

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  • Jan 7, 2023

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    CES, Connected Kitchen, News

    Brava Debuts the Brava Glass at CES 2023

    Brava, a maker of smart oven technology, unveiled the Brava Glass smart oven this week at CES. The new model is the first update since the company debuted its eponymous in 2018. The Brava Glass fixes what, for many, is the biggest shortcoming of the original Brava: not being able to see inside the cooking…

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  • Jan 4, 2023

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    CES, Connected Kitchen, News

    Fridge Cam Maker Smarter Launches New Models at CES, Announces Acquisition of Chefling

    Smarter is off to a busy 2023. At CES in Las Vegas today, the fridge cam and kitchen tech startup announced a new lineup of fridge cams. And, if that wasn’t enough, the company also announced they have acquired smart kitchen software maker Chefling. The new lineup of fridge cams includes an update to the…

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  • Dec 2, 2022

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    Connected Kitchen, News

    GE Appliances Debuts Voice-Controlled Smart Mixer That Detects Texture and Viscosity

    GE Appliances just dropped an interesting new appliance: a smart stand mixer with built-in scale, app control for guided recipes, and voice control through Alexa and Google Home. The Profile Smart Mixer is, as far as I can tell, the first Wi-Fi controlled smart mixer on the market, which is quite a feat in itself,…

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