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I saw a model house which had two dishwashers. One for extracting clean dishes, one for inserting dirty ones. Switch forth and back. Obviously you wouldn't want dishwashers with alarms for that.

As for microwaves.. the good old ones had a simple spring-driven timer, turn the wheel and when it hit zero it hit a bell, physically.. a single "pling". Perfect.

But the new one I bought as a replacement would beep five times, and keep beeping even if I opened the door. Crazy and totally useless. I want to have a.. word.. with industrial designers sometimes.

The microwave I have now also annoyingly beep five times, but at least it stops when I open the door.