This clever little kitchen tablet is splashproof and wipes down easily for marinara spills and greasy fingers. The entire OS revolves around recipes and step-by-step cooking methods, and it stands on legs, so you can use it hands-free. Hot!
Well, kind of. The Qooq is a 10-inch tablet at a great price point ($US399). It has all kinds of apps built in — music and video players, a weather app, radio stations, Facebook and Twitter and web browsing, for example, are all there. And it’s extremely recipe-forward, with 3600 recipes and videos so you can dish out the, er, dishes. The chefs leading the instructions are world class, and if you can’t follow along with them and serve yourself up something great, you pretty much don’t deserve to eat.
But there’s a lot of head-scratch as well. You get 50 new recipes a month… but only if you subscribe and pay a monthly fee, which the company expects to be in the neighbourhood of approximately €6 ($7) a month. (Hey, they’re French). Also, the Linux-based OS and software is all coked up in-house. That may be awesome but it’s often a recipe for disaster.
Another Melbourne Gamer
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 4:01 PMThis looks amazing, I wish I had known about this before xmas, I would bought one for my girlfriend and one for my mum, both avid and amazing cooks.
Is there a link to where I can throw money at it?
Blake
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 4:58 PMNot really, the entire product seems a but superfluous and is a big risk for the company. What can thus tablet do that others can’t? Additionally, why risk a huge amount of capital with an unknown product in a competitive market.
Most brain scratchingly, why not just build it as an app for apple/android devices?
Seven13
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 7:29 AMMy eyes! The puns, the puns!!