Electric kettle that beeps when water boils

I have one that's even better. It whistles.

@Beelzebub hahahahahaha!

I have a kettle that blows a whistle when the water boils, so what so new about this?

I'm a little teapot short and stout, here is my handle here is my spout. When your water boils, I go BEEP. Just 8,000 yen, now isn't that cheap?

I'm with "kapuna" - just boil your water in the microwave or in a good old fashion whistling kettle. Sheeeeesh... Now, heated toilet seats - if only those were exported to the West at an affordable price, Japan would be recession-proof!

I've got one of these, by another maker though. Got it for free with my "points" at an electronics store. Best thing ever. Use it everyday.

Granted, there are probably some uses for these small things as noisily dumb as they seem, like maybe in each unit in capsule hotels. Well... but then I can't imagine all of them going off beeping. Would really never get any sleep then, honeycomb bedlam. But size-wise, that and 1-2 person hotel rooms might be their only real worthwhile markets.

Himajin, I see you're almost no stranger to sarcasm. Let's try again.

It turns itself off.

10 years ago who'd thought of that? Besides the ones that produced the water-boilers that turned themselves off once boiling.

Why bother? Because some people like to heat just enough fresh water to make their tea, it takes too long to use up the 2.2 liters many pots take

Why bother indeed. Why fill up a water-boiler with as much water as you like, when now, the boiler is smaller, so it doesn't fill it up to the rim for you?

I think it's short-sighted to run everything we have with electricity or batteries.

Using gas for boiling water is still using energy...

you're require to get up and manually turn it off, making it an multi-use exercise device.

It turns itself off.

Why bother? Because some people like to heat just enough fresh water to make their tea, it takes too long to use up the 2.2 liters many pots take, if it's a couple or someone living alone. I don't want to drink water that's been sitting in a pot for more than a day.

It beeps? That's pretty amazing. Just 10 years ago water-boilers turned themselves off once boiling, but DURING their beeping. But thanks to this new technology you're require to get up and manually turn it off, making it an multi-use exercise device.

tkoind2,

Isn't that what a gf is for?

Another thing. Has the phrase "Noise Polution" entered the Japanese vocabulary?

Everything in this country is talking, beeping, buzzing or playing jingly music at us. So much it can be hard to hear yourself think.

Give the noise a rest guys. How about making a pot that intuitively makes your drink for you and brings it to you so you don't need to hear anything.

" the beeping sound is loud enough for the user to hear from a distance. " How long is "a distance"? Another fine way to annoy co-workers and neighbors.

Damn, my microwave can do that!

Not another beeping product! I'm sick of being beeped at all the damn time.

0.8 litres? Piffle. Why bother? What's wrong with making a kettle that boils enough water for more than 2 or 3 cups ffs?

How stupid! What's wrong with just a plain whistle? I think it's short-sighted to run everything we have with electricity or batteries. Would fit right in, though, with those new-style homes displayed on one J TV architectural show, where all the home interiors seem to be white or black or cement, without any sense of life in them. And certainly Toshiba could have found a way to connect this wirelessly to one's keitai or talking fridge or microwave. Which users will be able to hear the beep, btw? Is this one of their new products for the aging society?

The design is bad, the color too, the only good thing is that it switches off automatically and won't cause a fire.

That's nothing new, isn't it?

On a serious note, this could be the product that pulls Japan out of the recession.

These one-cup kettles, Tefal etc, didn't have any notification that the water was ready, like a hot pot. Old people and kids have been burned, the warning lets another family member know that someone's playing with the kettle! :-)

It is an ad for another ordinary item that they want us to buy. Plain and simple.

Might be a novelty in North Korea.

0.8 liters? they can keep it.

What the hell? Go back 100 years thanks Toshiba.

What about the old whistling kettles. I loved those.

the beeping sound is loud enough for the user to hear from a distance

cutting edge. Toshiba hires only the finest graduates from Keio.

One that whistles, perhaps?

A kettle that beeps once the water is boiled? What will they think of next?!