Built-In Silencer
What’s the worst thing you can imagine? If you said getting mauled to death and eaten by bears, you’re close. The worst thing in the world is using a microwave in the middle of the night and forgetting to stop and reset the counter before the alarm goes off and wakes up everyone in a five-block radius.
The microwave was invented in 1946, and it took 75 years for someone to install a silencer in one. We’re not engineers or microwave designers by any stretch, but we never truly thought that it would take three-fourths of a century to give microwaves a silent mode.