Kitchen appliances in development

I'd kinda like something like this, although I wonder how well the user interface works in practice:

Somehow I wonder how durable something like this would be.

Had a crock pot I gave up on the weekend and am now planning to throw out (it shuts itself off at random time intervals). Now I'm down to only four slow cookers. Whatever am I to do?

(HT: Serious Eats)