[marc0]

Sorry, but that's a total overshoot. I definitivly won't sit next to my pan, monitoring its temperature on my smartphone to find the "perfect" moment when to stir the chopped onions. I would, maybe, if I did some extremely temperature sensitive chemical experiment. But not in my kitchen.

And WFT: there are batteries in the handle? It's a joke, yes? A pan should be the perfect thing for energy harvesting, which would be at least to some extent innovative.

[compumike]

That's the point -- you don't have to sit next to your pan monitoring anything at all. The Pantelligent app does that for you (and then sends you alerts), and it does it quite well! Even if you're an experienced chef already, this frees you up to do other things.

Yes, batteries are great! Adding a thermoelectric generator is a possibility -- the power requirement is certainly met -- but it adds significant complexity.