The Electrolux Design Lab 2011 is now open for submissions, but if you’re concerned with realism, and feasibility, it’s probably best to step away now. Last year gave us a fridge made from green gunk, that could be fitted to the ceiling, a virtual reality headset that read your mind and then told robots what to make you for dinner, and a wardrobe that cleaned your clothes with microbes. Click through for the theme and video for this year’s competition.
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The Electrolux Design Lab asks for concepts to improve our future domestic lives. Because the entries don’t have to be based on anything approaching workable science, the finalists often have some pretty out-there ideas about our kitchens of the future. Take a look at this year’s finalists, including the winner Peter Alwin, who designed a portable cooking device that looks like an iron and works through magnetic induction. Click through for a full gallery.
The Electrolux Design Lab always throws up some concepts from way out of left field. This year is no exception, and the eight shortlisted designs have made home appliances look positively space age, including a fridge you can fit to the ceiling that suspends your food in a bio-gel, and a virtual reality headset that reads your thoughts about dinner and sends them to a robot chef. Click through for the full video…
Morning has landed, people. Even if you’re more blurry eyed than a drunken Roswell alien, it’s time to hit the ground running, and we’ve got just what you need to do that: a bowl full of all the latest gadget news, filled to the brim right here in techie breakie!
The Electrolux Design Lab awards went down last night, celebrating the wildest, weirdest kitchen and domestic concept gadgets imaginable. You’ve already seen the auto-sensing food grower that scooped first prize, but if you wanted to know what whacked out home ec kit it beat, see all the Electrolux Design Lab awards shortlist right here in our gallery.
The Electrolux Cocoon cooker is the latest winner of the kitchen kit company’s Design Lab awards, and it’s the most unusual oven we’ve ever seen: it “grows” meat and fish in packets, just like they were popcorn! Read on for the video.
There’s a ton of cool stuff tumbling out of the Electrolux Design Lab 08 contest, and although it didn’t scoop the top prize, this self-cooling bag has won our seal of approval.