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Cooking up a Storm: GPU-Powered Smart Oven is a Miracle Machine

Posted: 09 Jun 2015 10:34 AM PDT

GPUs help power some amazing devices — supercomputers, powerful telescopes, rovers on Mars.

Now, add something decidedly more domestic to the list: an oven.

But the June Intelligent Oven is no ordinary oven. It's a beautiful, sophisticated feat of engineering. It's loaded with gadgets and gizmos to make everyone look like a Michelin-star chef incapable of overcooking or undercooking a meal.

Thanks to computer vision and deep learning technologies, your food is always prepared to perfection. And it uses the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor to make critical cooking decisions, so you don't have to.

An Oven That's Smart, Inside and Out

The June Intelligent Oven uses the Tegra K1 processor to make critical cooking decisions, so you don't have to.

A year and a half in the making, the June oven has a sleek industrial design that features a full-width oven window with an integrated touchscreen to maximize internal cooking space. The gorgeous 5-inch display gives you control with its intuitive user interface.

Built for the countertop, the oven can fit a whole chicken, up to nine pieces of bread, a quarter-size baking sheet and even a 12-pound turkey.

On the inside, however, is where the magic happens. Using dual-surround convection technology and instant-on carbon fiber heating elements, the June Oven is expert in cooking your favorite foods. Steaks and chicken, cookies and cakes, toast and roasts, even lobster.

A high-definition camera peers down on the food to identify it. The oven can "see" if bagel halves are facing up or down to ensure a crunchier top face and softer exterior.

A scale built into the top of the oven weighs the food to help determine cooking times. Probes determine core temperature.

Machine intelligence algorithms — built on the CUDA parallel computing platform running on the Tegra K1 chip — process the data from these and other sensors for perfect baking.

Plus, the oven will get smarter thanks to over-the-air software updates. And it learns your preferences based on past choices. The result: one-touch cooking at the settings you like, to the doneness you prefer.

June used the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 DevKit to hone their computer vision and deep learning chops during product development.

"We needed a lot of computational horsepower to achieve real-time computer vision," said June's CTO and co-founder Nikhil Bhogal. "The NVIDIA Tegra K1 and Jetson TK1 DevKit let us quickly prototype and develop a product that exceeded our expectations."

While the oven offers set-and-forget operation, you can still stay connected. It streams live, high-definition video to phones and tablets, so you can watch your cookies brown or cakes rise. It will even push a notification to your mobile device to alert you when it's time to eat.

You can find out more about the June Intelligent Oven, and even place an order at www.juneoven.com. It ships next spring. And follow @June on Twitter and Instagram and TheJuneOven on Facebook and Pinterest for fancy food-filled updates!

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Google Busts Open Its Android TV App Treasure Trove

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 02:17 PM PDT

It's now easier than ever to find the entertainment options you want on SHIELD, the flagship Android TV device – thanks to the major update Google released last week to its Android TV app.

The update lets you browse each of the store's 600 apps using SHIELD, which launched recently in North America.

Powered by our Tegra X1 processor, we built SHIELD with the power to stream video in 4K, handle a plethora of next-generation apps and unleash a new generation of Android games.

SHIELD is the first major internet-streaming media device to support the next-generation 4K standard being built into a new generation of ultra-high definition televisions.

Browse to Your Heart's Content

text — Seeing is believing: Android TV now lets you see more of what it has to offer.

Until now, users could only browse a small, curated subset of the store's offerings and had to search for other software by name.

The update puts on display one of Android's greatest strengths: its open software ecosystem. And look for new TV apps on Android TV. Major broadcasters are bringing their video and viewing apps to Android TV soon, including HBO Now, HBO Go, CBS News, CBS Sports, EPIX, Fox News, Fox Now, Fox Sports, FX Now, Qello, Twitch, UFC, USA Today, Vimeo, Vudu and WWE.

Look for more games, content and apps to find their way to your big screen, via the NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV device, in the months to come.

SHIELD_TV-web — Here, now: SHIELD is ready to bring new entertainment experiences to your living room.

So get your NVIDIA SHIELD at http://shield.nvidia.com/store/android-tv, Amazon or Bestbuy.com. Then load it up with the great new content it makes possible.

When you buy SHIELD, you'll get about $60 in Google Play value. This includes a $30 Google Play credit and three months of unlimited Google Play Music (a $29.97 value).

And, for a limited time, when you buy SHIELD Pro, you'll get about $90 in Google Play value. This includes a $30 Google Play credit, three months of unlimited Google Play Music (a $29.97 value) and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (a $29.99 value).¹

1 Game is planned for release on SHIELD on July 1, 2015. Date is subject to change by the game publisher.

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