Appliances of yesteryear barely resemble those that we take for granted today. We have ovens that can remember how to cook our favorite recipes and even refrigerators that send messages to an of state location to report a malfunction!Here's how it works. Say you're away and your fridge goes kaput. Said fridge sends a report to headquarters who in turn follow up with a phone call to let you know and to schedule a service call. I was amazed when I heard that a year or so ago at a Miele appliance demo. Miele calls it "Remote Vision". Sounds a bit creepy but smart creepy, no? The "smart" function is beginning to infiltrate most appliances but today I want to talk about ovens.Yesterday Tech Crunch announced the unveiling of a new counter top “smart oven” by June, a teeny tiny company based in San Fransisco. The new June oven features precision, intuitive function and modern convenience all in something that resembles a toaster oven. It has a built-in ability to identify and even weigh food to suggest cooking methods and utilizes convection technology and carbon fiber heating elements . It also allows you to monitor your steaks with your smart phone. There's more, you can check it out here, but it still looks like a toaster oven. It fits a dish as big as 11" by 16", so maybe a little bigger than toaster oven capacity.To be fair, there are already built-in "smart ovens" on the market. Justin Landman of House of Appliances in Delray Beach, Florida says, "Jenn-Air announced their wifi connected oven earlier this year. Dacor also offers a smart oven feature called Discovery IQ". The price tag on these starts at $3,600 for Jenn-Air and $4,400 for Dacor.The new June oven will be available starting next spring for $1,495 but you can reserve one for $95 now. You'll just have to get over the loss of counter space.

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