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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...
...flying game on the Icebox while Stuart, 11, stands nearby, using the tablet's browser to start his science homework. Later their mother takes over the Icebox to print Allrecipes.com's instructions for Beef-and-Noodle Bake (using an HP ink-jet, another loaner, that sits where a toaster oven might once have been). All that connectivity helps keep the family together in one place (though Dory still runs downstairs out of habit to check her e-mail). But those tasks could be tackled from an ordinary laptop rigged to a home network much simpler than the one they...
That evening Dory tosses a salad while her husband Rob pours milk for the kids. The lasagna--which had been assembled the night before, slipped into the oven that morning and kept chilled under a cooling fan until cook mode kicked in at 6 p.m.--is sitting in warm mode, ready to serve. Stuart is still clutching the Web tablet, monitoring the final minutes of a baseball-card auction on eBay and blocking traffic to the dining room. While his parents work to pry him loose ("Enough already!" his dad prods), I wonder if by acquiring all these gadgets...
...which her reputation rests. She became, as if refined by the pain, the poet she had always dreamed she would be. It wasn't enough. In the small hours of Feb. 11, 1963, she set out breakfast for her two small children, then placed her head in an oven...
Volunteers then scooped the filling into individual pie crusts and put the pies on racks to bake in the oven in batches...