Microwave plays YouTube videos while you wait

(CBS) - Ugh. There's no worse first-world problem than waiting for your food to come out of the microwave.

Thanks to a group of young developers, you can watch YouTube videos on your microwave while you're waiting for those delicious little White Castle burgers. Mmmm.

The uWave is basically an HP TouchPad connected to a microwave, but its functionality is so much more than that.

When you start the microwave, a process is started that pulls a popular YouTube video to play on the HP TouchPad. Once the timer goes off, you'll also be sent a text and a tweet. It's simply amazing. Can we please get these into production?

Developers Kevin Conley, Varun Sampath, Benjamin Shyong and Teddy Zhang submitted their project to PennApps, a bi-annual hackathon held by the University of Pennsylvania.

Congratulations, guys. Now can we do something about the DMV?

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Hilarious first-world problems

[ralphing]

Reminds me of the past Samsung Fridges that had a TV mounted in the door. They wanted an extra $1000 for it. They also have one with a tablet in the door for an extra $700. You can sit a $200 14" digital TV on top of it, or Velcro a $400 tablet on the door. I'll use one of those while glancing at my food in the microwave which the tablet would block.

[barbaram99]

What will they dream up next..I am listening to the music on my Notebook. I don't want visuals on the Microwave. On the PC I wear headphones to hear the music.
Just as the phone is not answered when food is fixed. When I go to table the TV is off the computer is off etc.
I knew some people years ago who was scared of microwave. I have to use it..