Nuking Ramen Noodles in the Digital Age

Key features of Microsoft's Kitchen of the Future:

• Family Information console, replacing the cluttered fridge door, synchronizes with personal devices to display schedules, contact lists, memo's, chores list, weather forecasts, e-mail alerts, etc.
• Hands Free telephoning with caller ID and voice-dialing/answering. Sync'ed with contact lists.
• Phone sends directions, recipes, and other information to the caller, all by voice commands.
• Microwave's UPC scanner collects "cooking time" information from each food product (Ramen noodles made easy...easier) and also updates its own database after every use.
• Microwave alerts the user, wherever in the house, that microwaving is done.
• Microwave updates the user's "inventory" (a pantry or cupboard for the layperson) after every consumption.
• Kitchen computer constructs feesible recipes based on ingredient availability.

...Very Jetson's-esque.