Apparatus for operating household appliance i.e. smart pot, has communication interface receiving information from external communication medium, where apparatus displays received information in operation unit

摘要

The apparatus (106) has a worktop (105) with an energy transfer zone (113a, 113b) to transfer energy to a household appliance i.e. smart pot (101), placed on the worktop. An operation unit (104) e.g. TV receiver, is integrated into the worktop. A communication interface receives information from an external communication medium e.g. flash memory, where the apparatus displays the received information in the operation unit. The apparatus is connected with a camera, where a video taken by the camera is sent in real-time over the communication interface. The communication interface is selected from a group consisting of real-time communication interface, bi-directional communication interface, wireless interface e.g. wireless local area network (WLAN) interface, Bluetoothinterface, and ZigBeeinterface, optical interface, such as infrared interface, and wired communication interface e.g. Universal serial bus (USB)interface, Firewireinterface, and network interface such as Ethernetinterface. The information is picture information or audio information.