the rice cooker question

someone always shares this question... how does a rice cooker work? how does it know when to turn off? no matter how much rice and water you put in it- it knows... i have looked this question up before and i wanted to share.
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From http://home.howstuffworks.com/question35.htm


There are a number of appliances that "know" when they should turn off. A rice cooker is one of them. All of these appliances use the same principle. If there is water in a heated container and the water is boiling, the container will maintain a constant temperature.

At sea level, the boiling temperature for water is 212 degrees F or 100 degrees C. As soon as all of the liquid water has evaporated (or, in the case of the rice cooker, as soon as all of the water is absorbed by the rice), the temperature inside the container immediately rises. The appliance has a thermostat that can detect when the temperature rises above 212 degrees F in the container, and it turns itself off.