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Comment by acchow | Hacker News Reader

> touch "buttons" on a stove

What exactly is the process in an organization that leads to products like this?

Touch buttons on the stove (assuming they are like the ones we have at home) mean the stove is just one flat glass pane that is impossible to make dirty.

Yes, the buttons are kinda retarded and unresponsive, but if you fry something and have droplets of burned oil fly everywhere you just take a cloth with a little detergent and it just wipes off.

No more crusty disgusting matter growing on nooks and crannies of knobs that you have to operate on to get off the damn thing

Obviously it works great, and the next logical step is voice control /s

Non-contact interfaces would be a godsend in the kitchen.

Touch buttons = circuit board. Horrible idea. What could go wrong so close to excessive heat? Ovens used to last decades, and they still last longer than most other appliances, but now it's the circuit board in the control panel that goes out the most.

Touch button stoves are much easier to clean.

Who knows; it seems like everyone wants to put them in car radios too, which still strikes me as unbelievable.

My car radio is a giant touch screen. Horrible idea. I would much rather have buttons. I understand they want the buttons to change depending on context, but even then it would be better to have buttons surrounding a screen with the screen changing to show what the buttons do.

IBM used to make cash registers with little LCD panels on the physical buttons. Of course these have probably been replaced with touch screens.

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