The ADE Joy forces two disparate gadgets into the same box
It?s always nice to start the week with a little frivolous nonsense, before we realize the reality of our soul-crushing jobs: that we?ll spend almost every day of our lives doing the same thing, over and over again, until we?re 65 and ready to die. Happy Monday.
Today?s piece of superficial silliness is a kitchen scale, with a built-in iPod dock. That?s right. A precision kitchen workhorse, one of a serious cook?s most important gadgets, has been ?improved? by adding a dock and speaker. The dock is up front, where you can easily touch screens or click-wheels with greasy fingers, and the speaker is underneath the glass weighing platform, ready to shake some bass as you try to delicately measure ingredients in 1 gram (0.04 ounces) increments (up to 5 kg or 0.0055 short tons).
Your first concern is addressed: The dock comes with a tight-fitting cover plate to seal it against liquids and mess. Otherwise, you are buying one gadget that would play nicer as two separate items. To prove that this marriage is indeed forced, both bride and groom bring their own power supplies: a CR2032 button cell for the scale and a power socket and cable for the speaker.
?But,? you say, ?I have a tiny kitchen. Wouldn?t this save space?? Not unless you regularly leave out your scale despite you teeny countertop. Better to buy a speaker and put it on a high shelf or the top of the fridge and keep your (much smaller) scale tucked away. What next? A refrigerator with an iPod dock? Wait? What?
The price for this crazy mongrel of a tool? $100
ADE Joy scale and iPod dock [ADE Frieling via Oh Gizmo]
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