If you just can’t get enough of bored appliances….
I’ve mentioned earlier how much I love Escape Pod, the weekly podcast of short science fiction. This week was a story that I just had to link to because it strikes so close to the core idea of The Angriest Rice Cooker in the World. The host, Steve Eley, even mentions his own fuzzy logic rice cooker and the absurdity of a rice cooker that’s smarter than the family dog when he’s talking about his own love of gadgets. The story is called Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush. The titular Toothbrush has a very different response to his lot than our Rice Cooker friend, but they’re dealing with fundamentally the same problem: wanting more for themselves than their creators gave them. Plus it made me laugh out loud, so I think you’ll like it too.
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