i have a really smart rice cooker! my parents bought me a REALLY fancy rice cooker during my senior year of college (all i asked for was a rice cooker with a "warm" feature). i recently switched to brown rice, and i've never cooked brown rice before and had no idea that it was THAT different than white. well, my rice cooker sure knew! it usually takes 35 minutes for my cooker to cook white rice (the short-grain sticky variety) but 50 minutes later, my brown rice was still steamin' away! of course it was dried out cuz i didn't put enough water, but how did my rice cooker know?! i did nothing different...that's so weird! WEIRD!!