15-Year-Old Invents World's Smartest Microwave Oven

As culled from usatoday.

We now live in the jet age, technology now has become the talk of day.

An Oregonian 15-year-old boy Shahir Rahman, who wanted to find a way to keep his dad’s tea from boiling over. Guess the end result?? potentially monumental change to microwaves.

In trying to make his microwave smarter, Shahir started dissecting it and learning exactly how it cooks food. He studied the texture and viscosity of various foods and how those properties affect temperature, then took a temperature gun to meals at home and at restaurants to create detailed cooking profiles."

With that data in hand, Shahir began working in earnest on a series of complex algorithms that could use a single Panasonic thermopile array sensor to identify the kind of food being cooked and calculate how long it would need to be zapped before reaching the ideal temperature.
 With the help of his father (an engineer at Intel) and a few of his coworkers, Shahir built a smart microwave that can calculate the perfect temperature and cook time for virtually any dish.

Right now, the remaining time and cook temperature are displayed via a smartphone app, but Shahir is still tinkering and improving. He hopes to be able to include a way for the microwave to detect fires before they start, and identify what food is inside without any user input.