Westinghouse (yes, that Westinghouse) is coming out with a line connected home appliances running Windows CE .NET that includes a connected microwave oven (pictured at right), a coffee maker, and a bread maker. All the appliances are joined together via the “Home Hub,” a combination CD player/FM radio/alarm clock which connects to the Internet and can let you remotely control your appliances. There’s also the iCEBOX, which we’ve mentioned on the site before, a kitchen PC with a flip down LCD screen and a wireless keyboard that can be used to access your other connected appliances. Both the connected microwave and bread maker even come with UPC barcode readers which can automatically know how to prepare your food by scanning the packaging of whatever it is you want to eat (and download new UPC information for new products automatically over the Internet), while the connected coffee maker can remind you if you’ve forgotten to prepare coffee the night before and let you check over using the Home Hub whether coffee is brewing or is ready.
