Electrolux Design Lab – The robotic kitchen assistant

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Electrolux Design Lab – The robotic kitchen assistant

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The “Butl-R-Bot” is a robotic kitchen assistant. Responsive artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, such as humanetic arms, fan arrays (allowing movement), cameras and advanced sensors, allow Butl-R-Bot to cook meals, order and collect food, as well as interact with kitchen utensils and appliances. Due to its compact design (35cm wingspan), it fits well in small, urban kitchens. And its functionality allows the user to spend more time at work or play, in an increasingly busy and stressful future.

Butl-R-Bot by Tim Leeding, Coventry University, UK, within the top 25 best Electrolux Design Lab ´09 entries.

TV Shows We Used To Watch – Take Your Pick 1955

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Take Your Pick! was a United Kingdom game show originally broadcast by Radio Luxembourg in the early 1950s. The show transferred to television in 1955 with the launch of ITV, where it continued until 1968. As it was the first game show broadcast on commercial television in the UK (and the BBC did not at that point offer monetary prizes on its game shows), it was also by default the first British game show to offer cash prizes.

The programme was later revived from 24 February 1992 to 28 August 1998.

The first television version was produced by Associated-Rediffusion (later Rediffusion London), while the revival was made by Thames Television (whose arrival as the new London weekday ITV company had led to the original show’s demise).

If they got through the "Yes-No Interlude" (in which they had to answer a series of questions without using the words "yes" or "no" or be gonged off the stage), contestants would answer questions to win modest monetary prizes and at the climax of the show had to decide whether to "take the money" or "open the box". The box could contain good prizes (for the time), such as a holiday or a washing machine, but could also contain booby prizes such as a mousetrap or a bag of sweets.

The first version was hosted by Michael Miles (after its demise, Miles hosted a similar show for Southern Television called Wheel of Fortune, not to be confused with the later Wheel of Fortune of the same title). Bob Danvers-Walker, the voice of Pathé News from 1940 until its demise in 1970, was the show’s announcer, and Alec Dane was on hand to bang the gong. At the electronic organ was Harold Smart.

In this opening game, the host asked the contestant a series of questions for 60 seconds and the contestant could not say yes, no, nod or shake their heads. If they did, the co-host would bang the gong and the contestant would be eliminated (unless other contestants did the same).

There were 10 boxes numbered from 1 to 10 and an additional Box 13. Of the former, there were 3 boxes containing booby prizes, 1 containing a star prize (e.g. a small car) and 6 containing other prizes (of which 1 was a "treasure chest" of cash). One box also included the option to choose Box 13. The host offered an alternative prize of up to about £50 in cash and the contestant had to choose between "taking the money" and "opening the box".

In this game, the host might ask 3 out of 4 questions correctly before the contestant picks the boxes from 1 to 10 and activating box 13 within the 10 boxes like cinema tickets, baby food, cowboy hats or pork pies which relates to a prize, but also with larger prizes containing such as television sets, video players, cash, karaoke machines, double beds, music vouchers & sofas and booby prizes containing nose hair trimmers, last night’s cold food, a box of chocolates, breakfast cereals, rotten tomatoes, cat food and dog food and the star prizes containing kitchen appliances, cars, motorbikes, jet skis, hotels, computers and holidays.

Des O’Connor became the host for the second version in the 1990s. His future wife Jodie Wilson was one of the hostesses; she would later be replaced by Neighbours twins Gayle and Gillian Blakeney.

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