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Philips digital beer pump pulls the perfect pint

September 4, 2008, 1:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: beer dispenser, home, kitchen, PerfectDraft, Philips

This portable pub from Philips was a big surprise, buried among Philips’ latest range of health and beauty products. Its clean metallic lines and the orange digital readout are typical of the giant Dutch brand though and it promises to pull a perfect pint of Heineken.

Bosch Tassimo LED machine lights up your coffee

September 3, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill 2 comments

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Bosch, coffee maker, home, kitchen, LED, Tassimo

The fastest pod coffee machine on the block is back with LED lighting and a digital display and if you don’t like coffee, the T65 will now do you a hot milk chocolate or Twinnings tea instead thanks to a new selection of Tassimo capsules.

Gorenje’s floating Qube kitchen units suit every room

September 3, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Prototypes Tags: Cooking, Gorenje, home, kitchen, oven, Qube

Like the brilliant Apple iPod fridge, Gorenje is full of bright ideas for our future homes. Another being self contained kitchen appliances that don’t necessarily need to be in the kitchen. The spare room could become another floating food prep place for example.

Gorenje fridge is the world’s largest iPod dock

September 2, 2008, 1:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Gorenje, home, iPod fridge, kitchen

And being a fully functional fridge freezer, it’s also the coolest. The glossy black finish looks sharp, but the blatant addition of an iPod hi-fi in the door is a stroke of genius that’ll have you moon walking around the kitchen in your jim-jams.

Siemens Helium packs OLED and haptics into a home phone

September 1, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Prototypes Tags: DECT telephone, Gigaset, Helium, home, Siemens

Siemens could be stuffing cutting edge mobile phone tech like an OLED screen, haptic feedback vibration and even surround sound into its next Gigaset DECT phone and it still looks smoother than a bar of soap.

Hidden Radio is too cool for buttons

August 28, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Hidden Radio, home, kitchen radio

Buttons? Pah! The Hidden Radio doesn’t have a single one. Instead, you twist to tune and lift or push to change the volume. A control panel would just ruin those clean lines.

Giant buttons light up your home cinema

August 26, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: button lamps, home, home cinema, lighting

It’s the perfect way to illuminate your home cinema – a set of less-than-subtle lamps that pay homage to those familiar icons on your remote control. All you need to do is wire them up so that they actually operate your kit.

Dr Who’s Universal Screwdriver spotted

August 22, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: DIY, home, tools, Universal Screwdriver

It’s not quite the Sonic Screwdriver that David Tennant uses to decommission Daleks, but the revolutionary barrel changing mechanism inside this handy DIY device can cycle through 12 different screw heads instantaneously and you’ll never loose a single one. Perfect for home improvers and Time Lords then.