#58 - 👩🍳 The best app for cooking
Greg Taieb · · 5 min read
Hello,
2022 is already 2 weeks strong and 100% of my newsletters arrived late 😅. We're going to try to get things back on track, especially since I received a few messages that really motivated me to do better (👋 Caroline).
On the menu this week:
- 🚘 Cars that change color
- 📱 The iPhone is celebrating its 15th anniversary
- 👩🍳 The best mobile application for cooking
🚘 BMW is going to release a car that changes color! But what's the point?
You must have noticed that last week, CES, the largest tech show in the world, was held in Las Vegas. Even if its holding was uncertain until the last moment and many of the exhibitors threw in the towel in the face of the resurgence of Covid, that did not prevent some actors from impressing us.
I am of course not going to give you a complete recap (sites have done that much better than me) but I really wanted to share this news with you.
BMW presented a concept car which has the particularity of changing color thanks to a body made up of E-Link technology (like on Amazon's Kindle e-readers).
How does it work?
The surface of the car is equipped with millions of microcapsules as large as a hair. Each microcapsule contains black and white pigments which, following electrical stimulation, will be displayed.
At this stage it is only a technical demo (like a large part of the products presented at CES) but it clearly opens up new uses with incredible customization possibilities.
But what is it for?
The real question we can ask ourselves is: apart from a WOW effect, what is the point of having a vehicle that changes color.
Thinking about it, we could imagine some interesting use cases:
- Indicate the loading status of the car by modifying its color
- In car sharing or taxi systems, indicate whether the vehicle is reserved by changing its color
- Change the color depending on the weather conditions (lighter when it is hot so as not to retain heat)
Well, rest assured, we have time to find a use for this invention but I am always amazed when an innovation that seems to come out of a film materializes (it was the same for folding smartphones a few years ago).
📱 iPhone15 years already!
This week marks an important date since we celebrated this Monday, January 10, 2022, the 15th anniversary of the presentation of the iPhone.
We were talking about it last week After the impact of Blackberry on the smartphone market, how can we not pay tribute to the iPhone which, without being the first smartphone, opened the way in a lot of areas!
- A multitouch interface usable by a baby or a monkey
- The limitless possibilities offered by mobile applications
- The development of the mobile web thanks to a real browser
The opportunity, because there is always a good one, to revisit the now legendary introduction of the iPhone by Steve Jobs himself.
No other device or technology has changed our lives so much in 15 years. We owe to the iPhone everything that followed after the rise of the GAFA (for the better and the worse).
I want to conclude this part with a reaction on Twitter from Tony Fadell, the man we often call the father of the iPhone who explained yesterday that according to him it will take more than 15 more years to come across a personal terminal that will have as much impact in our lives. lives.
Exactly right @waltmossberg So much impact. We are going to be waiting a lot longer than 15 years for another personal device - it’ll be one we don’t hold or hardly see. No it’s not the “metaverse” (whatever the hell that is) or the VR/AR/XR glasses being pitched today… https://t.co/8nFkiq6DrO
— Tony Fadell (@tfadell) January 9, 2022
👩🍳 Mela the best cooking app on iOS
I don't talk about it much here because it's not really what you're looking for but I like it cook.
And a geek like me, as you can imagine, quickly wondered how to keep a digital trace of the best recipes that I found.
Because it's a real hassle, between cooking blogs, pinterest and other general sites, it becomes difficult to have a structured and easy to use vision of the recipes that you want to keep.
Without typing them by hand of course...
And then I discovered Mela, an application on iPhone, iPad and Mac that allows you to manage all your recipes.
In addition to its design as minimalist as it is effective, Mela has some killer featureswhich make it, in my opinion, an essential application.
The application has an integrated web browserand you can search recipes directly from Google. Nothing crazy you might say, except that when you come across a recipe that interests you, all you need is one click to import the recipe to mela.
It's just magical, the application parses the page to retrieve the source, the ingredients and quantities, the number of people and the preparation time. You don't have to do anything.
It is also capable of managing RSS feeds to be automatically supplied with new recipes.
The icing on the cake, you can, with one click, adjust the quantities and add them to a shopping list on your iPhone.
The application has many other qualities (notably a very practical cooking mode) but I really encourage you to test it if you like cooking and if you are looking for a way to organize your recipes simply.
Big crush on me. Well, it costs €5 but all good things have a price. In my opinion, it is well deserved.