Minato Mirai, a seaside urban area in central Yokohama. It has many large high-rises including the apartment we are staying in and the centre of attraction, the Landmark Tower-Japan’s tallest building. Minato Mirai has a great location with shopping centers, hotels; amusement parks and museums. No wonder our apartment is so advanced! Apart from microwave, refrigerator it has induction cooker (cooking range), electric rice cooker, tea-maker and a fully automated toilet!
Induction cooker: uses induction heating which heats the vessel itself. This allows fast and energy-efficient cooking without any harm from flames. If you place your palm instead of vessel you won’t injure yourself as it recognizes and heats only a vessel. The unit can detect if the cookware is present, whether the content have been cooked by monitoring the amount of power being consumed. The unit turns off automatically when cookware is not present.
Electric rice cooker: This has an automated process of cooking rice by controlling the heat and time required. Once the rice cooker is set rice will be cooked with no further attention. After the rice has been cooked fully the unit will automatically switch to the “keep warm” cycle. This prevents the rice from being overcooked and keeps the rice warm until it is ready to be served.
Fully automated toilet: This toilet is luxurious, just press buttons. The lid opens and closes automatically; the toilet seat warms up as you approach. Once the job has been done, just press a button it will automatically release temperature controlled and pressure regulated water to clean the dirt. Another press of button helps to dry the area with warm air, flushes the toilet and switches the air-purifier on. It can also recognize liquid waste from solid to control the amount of water used for flushing!
All of these appliances have been designed to use expensive resources like water and electricity judiciously. Isn’t it truly amazing?
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