Getting ready to impress that cute new join in office by inviting him for some home made dinner? Oops but guess you forgot something? You don’t know how to cook! Now what, how to save the embarrassment and make a good impression? Don’t worry Hannah Plevin is your guardian angel. She has designed what she calls as Interactive Digital Cooking Aid.
In this digital world, we are turning more and more to the internet to find great recipes. But the question is, how to bring those recipes into the Kitchen ? Of course, you can take your laptop into your kitchen, but there won’t be any safe place to put it. Or you can print out the recipes and hopefully the water spills won’t make them sticky. Noah Balmer saw this problem and create a simple and genius concept, the Kitchen Sync. Kitchen Sync is a digital cookbook concept which perfect to meet the demand of replacing the conventional cookbook into a new generation of digital world. Finding your recipes online won’t be a problem for this device with its wireless internet connection, buy products, read cooking tips, no more sticky papers and dirty laptop.
This brilliant kitchen sync concept has won a prestigious International Housewares Association design award, hopefully this digital cookbook can continue into real production.
This is a all in one kitchen concept where you as the cooker and your guests can feel the experience of cooking together. The height of the top this futuristic kitchen is adjustable according to your need, including food cutting area. In front of the cooker, there is a high tech digital screen which enable cooker to surf the web for the latest recipes or listen to the music. Two units stand on both wide is an oven for cooking, while the other one is a sink and drying rack.
Designer : Sebastien Poupeau
Designed by Alex Bradley, SPC is a smart cooker for people who are living alone and hate to prepare their own meals, they prefer junk food. This compact cooker goal is to encourage people in bedsits and bachelor pads to prepare healthier meals. Combination of a hob, chopping board, utensils and a WiFi-enabled screen (futuristic cooker, huh?) to make users easier to access recipes from the internet. As one of Concept Product Competition Finalists, hopefully this Single Person Cooker prototype can win the competition.
The Intended user is primarily the single person and or commuter, where time is precious and preparing a meal is more of a chore than an experience to be savoured. Families, with busy schedules could benefit, together with wider ranging demographics.
Taking styling cues from current trends the concept aims to deliver a contemporary take on kitchen appliances and remove those initial semantic values associated with kitchen appliances, to give an air of ?what is that??
Looks like we have more choices for our kitchen in the future, modular kitchen by Fevzi Karaman is still a concept, hopefully this compact cooker by Alex Bradley can be mass produced.
Designer : Alex Bradley via Dezeen
I really hate to know that my food already expired without even have the chance to consume it. That is why I’m going to be very happy if this BestBefore gadget can be mass produced, I’ll definitely buy it. RFID tag is predicted to be used widely in the next 5 years, BestBefore gadget is designed to take advantage of RFID tag. This gadget will read RFID tags in your storage units, and keep a constant stock of your foodstuffs.
BestBefore gadget will alert the user to food which is going out of date and even suggest recipes to use food which may otherwise go to waste. It will create a suggested shopping list, and keep it updated by scanning tags entering the basket. The shape is designed to hook onto to the toddler chair of the trolley to allow easy viewing. This hook will also incorporate a magnet to allow BestBefore to be attached to the fridge.
This isn’t just a nice to have gadget, some people will find it very useful to track their stock of food, and save some money rather than throwing expired food into garbage.
Designer : Peter Legg
