I was reminded today that I have the most remarkable device installed in my apartment: a grilled cheese sandwich detector.
Every time I make a grilled cheese sandwich it goes BEEP BEEP BEEP as loudly as possible. This is to warn me that I have a grilled cheese sandwich in my apartment, and that if I don’t evacuate immediately it might kill me. It has other features too: for instance, it warns me when I’m using my oven without cleaning it first, or if the pizza I am baking has dripped bits of now-burning cheese onto the bottom of the oven. This is a very important feature, and I very much appreciate having alarms go off whenever I lose the slightest bit of cheese from my pizza.
