Category: Home Appliances
Glow swing – er, a swing that glows
Simple idea but very pleasing. Swedish designer Alexander Lervik has made this swing out of plastic and threaded it with fiber optics that glow in the dark.
The world's most desirable microwave – a Martin Zampach concept only, I'm afraid
When Captain Kirk reheats his king prawn bhuna, I’ll bet it’s in a microwave like this. No person in the future will be caught dead without one these exquisitely designed appliances set to become more of a fashion statement than a food-nuker.
So smooth and minimalist is Martin Zampach’s design…
Pole dancer alarm clock – funny for about minus five seconds
A sexy alarm clock could make it a little too hard to get out of bed in the mornings but fortunately there’s nothing remotely erotic about the pole-dancer on this timepiece…
AT&T first retailer to purchase Microsoft Surface tables, in store April 17th
Ballmer may be wanting to sell us a Surface this year, however it looks certain that the US mobile carrier AT&T will have the privilege of stocking the touch-table in branches in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and San Antonio by April the 17th of this year.
When Microsoft first announced it in May of last year, it was promised to be in T-Mobile, Starwood Hotels, Harrah’s casinos and IGN branches by winter. Judging by the AT&T announcement, I’m guessing the deal with rival network T-Mobile didn’t follow through.
Customers in the four aforementioned branches of AT&T will be able to learn more about the available handsets…
Games consoles get 5-10 years, so says Xbox-ex Sandy Duncan
The new Nostradamus of the computing world, Sandy Duncan, has prophesied that the end is nigh for the games console.
Mr Duncan, the former boss of Xbox Europe, said: “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology. I think dedicated games devices, i.e. consoles and handhelds, will die out in the next five to ten years.”
“I don’t think you’ll have any box at all under your TV; most of this stuff will be “virtualised” as web services by your content provider.”…
Toast One flip toaster *may* be a prototype for now, but let's petition the designer into production…
There’s something about toaster prototypes which makes my heart flutter wildly. This ‘Toast One’ concept doesn’t fail in making me all excited at perfectly-browned carbs slathered in Marmite.
The designer behind this prototype must have a problem with burnt fingers, as instead of endangering your mini-limbs poking them down the crevices in search of your bread, you can simply flip the whole unit over…
Beer Station – dispense with the pub and drink youself into a coma in the comfort of your own home
Now, I love beer, love it but the Beer Station just isn't my glass of Budvar. Yeah, it looks all swish and smooth with its brushed chrome finish…
Binary clock – baffling & beautiful in equal measure
Yes, you read it right. This is not an electric cheese grater, it really is a clock and one designed to confuse the hell out of any poor sucker who hasn’t spent three days studying the manual. It works on a binary basis.
For those of you who slept through physics class, that refers to each of the 20 LEDs having two outputs, either on or off, and between…
Microsoft claim Surface could be in homes by 2011
Microsoft is claiming to be able to push out a consumer version of its coffee table-cum-PC, Surface, within the next three years, lopping a couple of years off their original forecast of 2013. VP of Specialised Devices and Applicatiobs at MS, Tom Gibbons, told Fortune magazine:
“In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there. If we can beat that, we’ll try to beat that.”
Electrolux introduces the 'world's most intelligent oven' – the Inspiro
The oven are changing – no longer just a hot box, Electrolux is making it intelligent with the Inspiro…
