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[–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm impressed the water has its own phone to facetime people with.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Water without anything in it doesn't boil over

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Until it suddenly does, and violently if actually superheated.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Tbh it doesn't even boil at all, like trees that make no noise when falling if nobody is looking, water doesn't boil either. It requires conscious observation, similar to photons acting as a wave until observed which then they are particles.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The first (known, at least,) webcam monitored a coffee pot.

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  • [–] [B] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    human uses internet to bounce image onto a dozen servers, captured by multiple governments, data mined and ai trained on by proprietary software company, just to not spend five minutes standing

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does your face also need to be visible to the water, for this to work?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Actually makes it worse. The watch pot never boils.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    Wow if only there was some kind of device specifically designed to boil water for you that has a switch that automatically turns itself off once the water is boiling.....

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But who took the picture of the phone pointed at the water?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or just like… set a timer? 6 minutes is what it takes for my pot to boil.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sigh, amusing but really unnecessary effort.

    1. use a lid. Water boils significantly faster with one!
    2. buy a $5 pot minder, it'll make noise when the pot starts boiling

    There done.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Recall the rule of quantum imaging.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This pot costs $200 by the way

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Why is he just boiling pots of water on the stove? Shouldn't there be some kind of food in the water? It looks like it's already boiling, what is he waiting for?

    I hope he posts the video of the phone tipping over and going into the boiling water

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lots of things need to go into already boiling water to cook properly. Pasta for one. Depending on the rice and the texture you're going for, that can be better cooked by adding it to already boiling water. This is the same thing as preheating your frying pan or oven.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why would he need to film it then? Water by itself doesn't boil over.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    He watched TV. It's easy to miss the time while doing something engaging, by a lot, up to tens of minutes. So he dropped a facetime window over his TV screen, I guess? Or onto another phone he has at hand?

    I think that he did that post because it's silly and didn't put more effort than it needs.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    if it works it's not stupid 😅

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Your phone is a small TV 🤦

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