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O Kitchen designed for portability, small spaces
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on March 8th, 2010
This particular gadget is known as the O Kitchen, a concept device created by a team of Brazilian designers. I suppose it is named the O Kitchen because it can fold up into a large ball. Yet without a hole in the middle, I wouldn’t call it an “O”. I guess they didn’t like the name “Ball Kitchen”. I’m not even going to allude to what that sounds like.
This O Kitchen was designed to be an easily portable and compact kitchen, presumably made for those who don’t have the space for a big kitchen. Of course, this takes up some space too. Find out what all the numbers mean after the jump.
Each of the number corresponds to a different feature on the O Kitchen: 1) Unified microwave and electric oven; 2) Refrigerator; 3) Dishwasher; 4) Cooktop; 5) Smell and steam exhaust; 6) Lighting; 7) Control panel with internet access, MP3 player function, CD/DVD reader, digital cookbook, kitchen management software, built-in sound system; 8 ) Cabinets; 9) Automatic disposal system; 10) High temperature alert display.
I can see another use for the O Kitchen: outdoors. Why bother taking the grill to a tailgate party when you can just roll the O Kitchen in the back of the pickup truck? Of course, you’re probably going to have to bungee it down somehow so it doesn’t roll out on a sudden stop.
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Grow Plants Right In The Fridge
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on February 14th, 2010
Having fresh herbs and vegetables to work with in your kitchen always gives food a better flavor. However, it’s not as simple as just having a cute little window box full of them for some people. Be it because of lack of space or having absolutely no green thumb abilities, sometimes you need some extra help. Well this refrigerator would take care of both of those issues and keep your favorite herbs and veggies nearby.
Designer Hanna Sandstrom has been working with Green Fortune & Whirlpool to create a refrigerator concept that does almost all of the work for you. This works with herbs and greens only and takes your seeds and turns them into full grown plants. It’ll even do the watering for you automatically. Plus with the window on the front it’d give your kitchen a much more lively look. There aren’t any details on this becoming a reality, but we can always hope.
Source: Ubergizmo
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Cornucopia from MIT could be the next form of artificial food
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on January 22nd, 2010
You know what you are looking at? Is it a dozen eggs that were laid by chickens of the future? No, but it is the food of the future.
Allow me to elaborate. This is the Cornucopia, a food preparation machine that is developed by Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran, two designers at MIT.
Think of the Cornucopia as an early stage of the food synthesizer from Star Trek. Remember that machine that would give you any food that you wanted? Well, this is a 3D food printer.
Essentially, what you see in those strangely-shaped capsules are flavors. By mixing them together, you get “the creation of flavors and textures that would be completely unimaginable through other cooking techniques”.
So, if you want to eat some lasagna, just mix two parts green, with three parts orange, and four parts red. I honestly don’t know if you can bring these combination together as a liquid or a solid.
Maybe the end result is that goop stuff that you see Neo and the others eating in The Matrix. As I recall, it tasted like “runny eggs” or “a bowl of snot”. I can’t imagine that the Cornucopia would be a cornucopia of good tastes. But this is MIT developing this, so who knows how it might taste.
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Conceptual fridge has a door that goes transparent, has compartments
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on January 22nd, 2010
I believe there is some sort of made-up word for when you go to get a snack from the refrigerator, and you can’t find anything. However, you still go back to it, as if something will materialize.
Of course, you realize that it costs precious energy and money to stand in front of an open refrigerator door. So why not make it transparent?
This conceptional refrigerator by designer Yoon jung Kim and Jong rok Lee has some special glass in it that is normally opaque. However, if you run a current through it, it will turn transparent.
I’m not at all certain if this will work, as I have never seen glass like that before. I’m not doubting that this could work, but if we have glass that can go from transparent to opaque, then we really need to use it on more than just refrigerators.
In addition to that glass trick, this Window Fridge has another outstanding and unique feature: sections. That’s right, this refrigerator doesn’t just have one or two doors, but many. So if you want to categorize your foods, and sort them by the five compartment doors, then you can.
Well, there is no word when this fridge is going to be actually made. Perhaps the designers need to perfect this glass going transparent or opaque thing.
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Cipher Drinking Glass lets you know what the liquid is
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on December 24th, 2009
Have you ever been in a party where every glass was the same, and you didn’t know which was yours? What’s really sick is when you take a sip, and discover that it is definitely not your drink.
Now imagine that you had these Cipher Drinking Glasses designed by Damjan Stankovic. See all those random colored squares on the glasses? Apparently, they have some odd ability to make certain words depending on what the liquid is in the glass. Depending on what squares appear, that will show what is in them.
It’s like those glasses back in the eighties that had the muscular men or buxom babes with the outfits that would disappear if there was liquid in the glass. I suppose that this is some sort of sensors in order to spell out what is in the cup.
You will note that it knows that one is “Coca-Cola” as opposed to “Pepsi”. Those would have to be some interesting sensors, and I wonder if they could detect a virgin drink from an alcoholic beverage. I mean, there must be thousands of possible drinking combinations, and I’m just not certain that this one glass could really do them all.
Unfortunately, this is still a concept device, so I doubt you’ll be seeing these glasses at a party anytime soon.
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Toaster that mimics a printer
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on December 23rd, 2009
The toaster is probably one of the most boring gadgets out there, which is probably why designers enjoy altering the classic toaster so much. Well one more designer is trying their hand at changing up the way we use our toasters. This one seems to take its inspiration directly from a printer. Instead of printing out pages though, it spits out fresh toast.
It’s be cool if it did actually print something onto the toast, since the design is so similar to a printer. On the top of the toaster you place several different pieces of bread. Then as it toasts the bread it drops them down below in a nice little stack. It’d be great for large families that need a stack of toasted bread in a hurry. So far it is still a concept though.
Source: OhGizmo
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Posted by admin in Future Concepts on December 23rd, 2009
The toaster is probably one of the most boring gadgets out there, which is probably why designers enjoy altering the classic toaster so much. Well one more designer is trying their hand at changing up the way we use our toasters. This one seems to take its inspiration directly from a printer. Instead of printing out pages though, it spits out fresh toast.
It’s be cool if it did actually print something onto the toast, since the design is so similar to a printer. On the top of the toaster you place several different pieces of bread. Then as it toasts the bread it drops them down below in a nice little stack. It’d be great for large families that need a stack of toasted bread in a hurry. So far it is still a concept though.
Source: OhGizmo
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Castoven: Watch a YouTube Video while you microwave
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on December 9th, 2009
I don’t know about you, but when I put in something in the microwave to “nuke”, I don’t stand around it, waiting for my food to cook. Generally, I find some time to do a few other things, and I generally get so distracted by those things that don’t get back to my food until five minutes after the timer has gone off.
However, what if there was a way to keep yourself entertained for the time your microwave is cooking? This is exactly what two researchers from Keio University were trying to do when they invented the Castoven.
The Castoven is an ordinary microwave oven, with a little bit of a twist. It has a 10.4 inch LCD screen on its front. Not only that, this screen displays YouTube videos. So the next time you set the time for cooking, you have the option of watching a video of equal length while you are waiting.
The microwave is connected to a Mac computer, and the designers included a set of speakers. Apparently, the Castoven is set up with a specific Adobe AIR app that can get the videos through YouTube’s API. I am assuming that this is how it picks the video clips of the appropriate length.
Of course, the Castoven is still a concept, but I can easily see a microwave like this as a standard in kitchens of the future.
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Rihanna Kitchen Scale features built-in iPod dock
Posted by admin in Audio Gadgets, iPod Gadgets on November 19th, 2009
It almost seems like manufacturers are getting desperate to sell their kitchen scales. Lately there have been many kitchen scales that try to have a twist to make them more appealing to the general public. Well if you use yours a lot, this one will let you listen to you music. At least with this you can combine your iPod dock with a kitchen scale instead of having two different gadgets cluttering up your countertop.
This Rihanna model isn’t released just yet, but is soon to be sold. Apparently this kitchen scale is supposed to be the absolute first that does include an iPod dock directly on it. The dock and scale combo are predicted to release early next year. On the device itself the dock is directly above the 42.5 x 20 mm LCD display. Below the safety glass surface is the 2-watt speaker. When it is released it’ll cost you €70 or about $150 through ADE Germany.
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Concept toaster solves age-old problem
Posted by admin in Future Concepts on October 24th, 2009
Some of you might remember a scene from the film Kate and Leopold where Hugh Jackman is complaining that he has to plunge a General Electric toaster one and a half times to make toast. “Pushing the toast down twice produces charcoal, and pushing it once only produces warm bread.”
At this point, Meg Ryan responds: “You know what? No one gives a rat’s @$$ that you have to plunge the toast twice, because everybody has to plunge the toast twice!”
It’s an age old problem, isn’t it? We just can’t get our toast done right. However, this concept toaster uses two panes of glass to toast the bread, so you can see if it is done right.
Granted, it’s not something that you want to sit and watch all the time, but it is enough to glance at from time to time while you’re frying your eggs or something.
By the way, the designer of this product ran into a simple problem. Apparently, you can’t heat the glass enough to toast bread. Don’t ask me how that can be improved.
However, it is a definite toaster of the future, isn’t it? It feels like something Tom Cruise would have had in his apartment in Minority Report, if not for that dial. Maybe this thing could have a touchscreen when it finally gets out to the market.
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