Exp bar

I may just be exceptionally lazy or as I like to think of it exceedingly efficient, but I find myself not using more than two buttons on my microwave. If I throw in a veggie sausage, I don't bother with punching the 4, then moving my finger to the 0, then over to the start. No, I just hit 44 start. See the time and attention span savings? That's a whole (looking for 0 button) and a (re-aiming finger) saved. Is my sausage a bit overdone? If I ever know the correct number within 4 seconds I need to start eating fewer sausages and find something better to do with my life.

Of course I can never be the **absolute genius** that invented the "add 30 seconds" button (a feature I will surely have on my next device). Or the **underappreciated visionary** that created the timer dial (sadly a feature that is waning in popularity, perhaps due short mechanical life compared with buttons). But I hope this idea can save you all a (very) little time.

The Exp bar is simply a touch sensitive strip below your keypad for advanced and lazy users. It ranges from the trivial Exp(1) = 1 second to the perhaps excessive Exp(9) = 8103 seconds. For my veggie sausage I'd jab somewhere around 3.7 on the scale, the display reads 40.447s and it immediately starts cooking (no Start button, please).