Kamenstein SmartSpice Rack

Just to prove that the gadgets industry never met a product it couldn't clutter up with a needless LCD screen, the Kamenstein SmartSpice Rack includes a digital cookbook of over 200 recipes and a timer! "All in one!"

Also includes spices.

Here are ways this $65 orbital space turd could have been improved: sensors that note what spice has been removed, displaying cooking suggestions on screen; a giant red button on the top labeled "Pepper," which periodically discharges aerosolized capsaicin into the air whether or not the button has actually been pressed; some spices are actually spray-painted iron filings, while others are not spray-painted; it could have been made of wood and cost $10.

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[#1 posted by Anonymous , November 15, 2007 6:15 AM]

... or if it used the screen to track and display the age of the spices in the rack, so you could toss things that have gone super stale.

[#2 posted by Halloween Jack , November 15, 2007 7:09 AM]

There's nothing that I like more than reading a long-ass recipe off of a dinky little LCD screen.

Another feature: Spice Randomizer

[#3 posted by Anonymous , November 15, 2007 7:50 AM]

as much as i agree with the pointlessness of it, i really really want one.

[#4 posted by didymos , November 15, 2007 9:23 AM]

Seriously, why not add a feature that is relevant? Like perhaps making the SmartSpice Rack actually "smart" enough that it will keep track of the age of the spices in the containers? Spices lose their kick as they age, and unless you keep spices in the containers you bought them in (or are anal enough to keep notes elsewhere), you generally have no idea how old the spices are.

[#5 posted by The Lizardman , November 15, 2007 10:36 AM]

Obligatory Simpsons Reference:

'Some of these must be duplicates'

'O-ray-gone-O??'