Tech: Tomorrow's Kitchen

One family test-drives a cutting-edge room full of really smart appliances

Dory Yacobian parks her minivan, pulls out a cell phone and checks on her lasagna. Using her phone to control the oven at home, she adjusts the bake time, plops the handset into her purse and greets her daughter coming out of school. "It alleviates so much stress to be able to walk in the door and have dinner ready and waiting," she says. "I love this."

Yacobian is one of 20 working mothers in the Boston area currently living with Jetsons-style kitchens as part of a pilot program sponsored by the Internet Home Alliance, a consortium of companies trying to...

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