Weekly Mashup 74

Cook your dinner over the internet using this WiFi pot Impel Studio

A cooking appliance controlled by a mobile app could allow you to cook meals when you’re not even in the house. The Cooc, designed by Impel Studio, is fitted with a thermal probe, induction heating, sensors and w WiFi connection. Supper, sorted.

Xbox games are coming to Microsoft’s augmented reality headset Engadget

Augmented reality games for Xbox could be available from as early as next month, according to developers Redmond, who have announced they will be releasing an SDK on which other developers can build games for the Microsoft Hololens in April.

The Uber-esque service for anything, basically PSFK

Food, hairdressers, nannies, French lessons, helicopters… uber-consumerism has arrived in the form of a service promising to deliver absolutely anything (legal) to your doorstep if you send it a simple text request. It’s called Magic, and if it works it really will be.

The cheap wrist wearable that’s ‘the opposite of the Apple Watch’ Noodoe

A simple smart(ish) wristband called the Noodoe is about to hit the market priced under $100 and promising to be the complete antithesis of the Apple Watch. The Noodoe’s functionality must be programmed by the user and can only be operated by wrist-flicking.

Listen to music through your bone-conducting sunglasses (true story) Buhel

The Buhel SG05 Soundglasses let the user listen to music on their smartphone while also making a call - but without anything whatsoever in their ears. The sunglasses use bone conduction technology to send sound vibrations into the wearer’s inner ear.

Could this tiny mollusc hold the key to augmented reality Independent

The blue-rayed limpet – found on British shores - is a pea-sized mollusc with bright blue dotted lines on their translucent shells. Scientists think believe these optical structures could be help develop colour-selective, controllable, transparent displays.