Posted 09.25.2009 at 12:37 pm
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How will people make dinner in 90 years? If the newly crowned winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2009 challenge is any indication, it'll be as easy as 1-2-3. Cocoon is a fish- and meat-generating microwave, intended as a solution to preserve fishing and farming resources.
You can probably already tell that this isn't your mother's microwave. The Cocoon, designed by Rickard Hederstierna of Sweden, generates meat and fish dishes with the same ease that your own 'wave pops corn. RFID technology culls cooking directions from muscle cells in small food pouches (like the salmon in the rendering above) to automatically set cooking time and temperature.
Hederstierna received a 5,000 Euro (about $7,300) prize and a six-month internship in the Electrolux Design Lab.
The People's Choice Award went to the Teleport Fridge, which beams fresh groceries into your kitchen at the touch of a button. The first-runner up was Penghao Shan's water catcher, which collects and filters rain water for drinking. And third prize went to the Renew smart steamer by Louis Filosa.
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a-w-e-s-o-m-e!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
They didn't design anything!
The guy just drew re-purposed Tupperware and called it a meat maker! There is no REAL design to it besides aesthetics.
Well I designed a teleporting fridge meat maker which beams the food directly into your mouth........ can I get my money now?
Apocalypse here we come! lol.
Aren't we just going to be eating pills in the future?
buckrodgers
Genetically altered humans will need no food. We will walk around barefooted in the dirt, drink water and produce our own food as we play golf or sit under our very on grow lights before we shower and go to bed. If you have seen Star Trek some green people look real good.
Scary to see how most young designers nowadays create concepts which all seem to be based on the assumption that earth will soon be a barren place void of anything natural.
While this vision might indeed become reality one day, I wish there were more critical voices in the field to counteract against this trend.
Of course, one must not expect a company of consumer products to be in the lead here; after all they are the ones to benefit all the way to the bank from this never ending production frenzy. Am I the only one to see how big companies like Elektrolux in these competitions throw out what is pocket change to them and receive essentially free concepts - and publicity?
And who are they anyway, to claim that they can shape our future?
Universities and Schools should try to be more visible then private companies and have their own competitions to encourage their students to come up with unbiased concepts about our future.
Also, please watch this short video, called "The Story of Stuff", it's a real eye-opener:
www.storyofstuff.org
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I would have given the contest to Penghao Shan's water catcher. Seems like the only one trying to save the world, instead of destroy it.
Yeah, let's find more ways to microwave things, change cellular makeup and create cancer.
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