Often dubbed one of the biggest inventions of the 20th century due to the fact that it made things easier for people cooking across the world, the microwave oven hasn't changed much over the past few decades ... but, now, a former NASA scientist has developed a new microwave technology that'll revolutionize the whole industry.
Mark Robber, a man who used to work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, has developed an amazing new microwave technology where users can actually see their food cooking from the inside and out.
According to The Huffington Post, the new microwave technology uses infrared to see how cooked your meal is, instead of having to restart the oven over and over again because every time you take a bite, the food's still frozen (or just cold) on the inside.
The way the new microwave technology works is surprisingly simple, though it's taken years for anyone to even think about developing it: there's an infrared camera inside the machine which monitors how the food is cooking, with a screen outside the oven that displays a heat map of what the camera's catching.
Basically, cold food will look blue in the screen, and as it heats up it turns redder and redder - and, when the food is entirely heated, the color changes once again and the screen will show the food as white.
Pretty cool, huh?
Slate Magazine reports that before embarking on creating the most awesome new microwave technology in the world, Robber had his eyes on the stars ... or, more specifically, in the planets, as he worked in the famous Mars Rover project before embarking on entrepreneurship on his own.
As Take Part reports, this project, called Heat Map Microwave, is major news for all the "microwave chefs" out there, from college students to lazy bachelors - and you can watch Robber's video promoting the new microwave technology!