Say you want to cook a new meal, the technology can project a recipe right onto your cooking surface.

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Many guests cook a meal, clean the house, or walk the dog.

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When staying at a hotel, most people don't think about the housekeeper who made their bed, the kitchen worker who cleaned their plate, or the cook who prepared their meal.

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Figuring out how to do the laundry, cook a basic meal or even wait for a handyman "are not crippling responsibilities" but rather "minor life skills" that can prove useful if the housekeeper cancels.

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Kumar also ensured that all 100, 000 or so of the running staff who would normally cook their food at the station after every shift were now getting a free meal at the canteens.

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No longer is it so important that you learned to cook a new meal every week for a year, but now the focus turns to how many thousands of families you touched by creating healthy cooking videos that were then posted on YouTube and viewed by moms who were previously hardcore fast foodies.

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It can help you synchronize your meal prep work and cook times so that everything makes it to the table hot and delicious.

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And for when you need to charge your gadgets or lamps while camping, the PowerPot is a new camping pot that uses heat to charge your devices while you cook a meal.

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There was room for only one chair, perhaps to discourage the cook from sitting down with the cook next door for a conversation, and no room at all for a table where she could have a meal.

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