Gadgets

Bake Your Meals The Sino-Scandinavian Way

Everybody loves dim sum! The bamboo baskets they use can cook an entire meal, all the same time, without leeching the flavour like boiling does. The new MENU Steam Stacker recreates this traditional Chinese cooking method in your oven.


April 21, 2011
Computing

We Could Soon Be Ordering Food On Rubber-Coated Tablet Menus

A new mass-market service called E la Carte is now testing their tablet menu at twenty different restaurants around Boston and San Francisco. The tablets are specially rubber-coated, and won’t die out on you when you’re ordering because they’ve got day-long battery life. Sure, iPad menus have been done before! But these E la Carte tablets could be a better alternative for restaurant owners; they’re cheaper, more durable, and designed specifically for this purpose.