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Electrolux Flatshare fridge designed for squabbling students

September 11, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Prototypes Tags: Design Lab 08, Electrolux, Flatshare Fridge, home, kitchen

The annual Electrolux Design Lab never fails to amaze us with either staggeringly useful or very silly concepts for the home. This modular fridge, designed to keep each student’s baked beans completely separate falls into the former category.

Gorenge pop-up SmarTable chills and thrills

September 9, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: fridge, Gorenje, kitchen, SmarTable

The SmarTable is even more likely to impress than the tuneful Made for iPod fridge, as it raises your food and drinks on a circular platform at the touch of a button. And this one is already on sale.

Gorenje and Apple introduce the iPod-controlled kitchen

September 8, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill 4 comments

Filed under Networking Tags: dridge, Gorenje, home, iGorenje, kitchen, Networking, Washing Machine, Wi-Fi

If you thought the Made For iPod fridge was a novel idea, how about the iGorenje washing machine and oven that can be controlled remotely from your iPod? Thanks to a piece of free software, your iPod Touch or iPhone could be a remote control for your kitchen.

Jura Signature serves coffee in skintight leather

September 5, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: coffee maker, home, Jura, kitchen, Sugnature

The Signature coffee maker has donned tight fitting leathers for its latest limited edition outing and it’s joined on stage by four other special editions. One encrusted in Swarovski crystals and another clad in real wood.

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.