The Castoven is designed by researchers at Japan’s Keio University.  Besides being a conventional microwave, the Castoven sports a 10.4 inch LCD screen on the door and internal speakers.  Crunchgear breaks it down for us:

The main idea is to display a YouTube video whose length depends on the time you need to heat up what’s inside the Castoven. Say, you want to prepare a lunch box that takes 3.30 minutes to be ready. The Castoven would then automatically pull a video from YouTube with that length and display it on the screen until the meal is finished.

So the future of microwaving a Poptart is watching YouTube videos, huh?  I’ll take it.  Additional images below and a video of this in action after the break.

[Via Gizmodo; Crunchgear]