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Appliance Trends 2010

Electrolux Design Lab 2010 announces 8 finalists

So, here they are ... the winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2010 The 2nd Space Age will be announced on September 23 and will be awarded a 6-month paid internship at Electrolux Global Design Headquarters and approximately $6,000. Electrolux Design Lab.

1. The Kitchen Hideaway, Daniel Dobrogorsky, Australia

The Kitchen Hideaway is a virtual reality concept that allows the inhabitants of a communal building to imagine being in a kitchen, preparing a particular meal rather than having to actually do this for themselves. The thoughts of the user are then transmitted to robotic chefs within the building who then prepare the visualised meal in a real kitchen and with real ingredients. In effect, the headset replaces the need for kitchen appliances in individual dwellings, saving space through creative thinking.

2. The Snail, Peter Alwin, India - Micro Induction Heating

The Snail is a portable heating and cooking device based on magnetic induction processes. Such is the size and versatility of the Snail, it can be stuck directly on to a pot, a pan, a mug etc. to heat the contents. This reduces the amount of space required for conventional cooking whilst adding portability to the process. Powered by a high density sugar crystal battery, the Snail converts the energy from the sugar, heating up a coil to conduct the magnetic induction process to the utensil. Integrated sensors detect the food type being heated so as to automatically adjust the time and temperature. A simple touch sensitive display with interface helps to monitor the process.

Posted July 14, 2010 10:17 PM

Sub-Zero refrigeration columns

The new 27" wide integrated Sub-Zero refrigeration columns, the IC-27R all-refrigerator and IC-27FI all-freezer are elegant, 81" tall Energy Star qualified appliances that bring performance and design options for your modern kitchen. You can pair these refrigeration columns with full size integrated refrigeration or drawers to customize your design in countless ways.

Posted July 13, 2010 1:54 PM

Electrolux Vac From The Sea

Electrolux is going to create vacuum cleaners from plastic harvested from polluted oceans. The company just launched its "Vac from the sea" initiative to get plastic waste out of the world's oceans and into home appliances made of recycled plastic. There are plastic islands, some several times the size of the state of Texas, floating in the world's oceans. Yet on land, stocks of recycled plastic are much too small to feed production of sustainable plastic products. Electrolux intends to gather plastic from the oceans and turn it into a number of vacuum cleaners.

Posted July 3, 2010 12:31 AM

Electrolux Design Lab 2010 The 2nd Space Age

The 2nd Space Age presents 25 semi-finalists from around the world. Designers from 17 countries selected the best 25 of 1,300 present concepts, which is up 30% on 2009 participation. The emphasis has been on creative solutions for compact living. The Electrolux Design Lab 2010 brief asked industrial design students to consider how people will prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050, when some 74% of the global population are predicted to live in an urban environment. So forward looking appliances like the Robotic Fish Dishwasher, the Snail Induction Cooker and Sheep Vacuum Cleaner among others should not surprise you. The winner will receive a 6-month paid internship at one of Electrolux global design center and also € 5,000. The second prize is worth € 3,000, the third is € 2,000. I think I put most of them, for the rest and details, check Electrolux Design Lab.

Common Laundry, Kai Wai Lee, Taiwan

Behind-The-Wall Freedge, Matthew McNaughton, Australia

Community Fridge, Pedro Perez Sanin, Colombia

Snail Micro Induction Cooking, Peter Alwin, India

Posted June 26, 2010 11:45 AM

New built-in appliances from Miele - Hot as Fire and Pure as Ice

Miele presented two new built-in appliance series - Fire and Ice to match exclusive interior designs. Both design series are specially developed for integration into an extravagant ambiente. An embossed golden or silver logo on the appliance front underlines the aura of quality and value. Inspiring forms, the pleasant touch and feel of surfaces, intuitive functions - the design of the Generation 5000 built-in appliances has already been at the receiving end of numerous international design awards. One reason for these accolades is the way products from widely differing product groups harmonise perfectly with respect to form and function, appearing to come from the same mould.

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Fire appeals to lovers of exquisite design and those in pursuit of unique values. And, in this case, this can be taken literally as the solid handles on these machines, together with the delivery unit on the coffee machine and the milk flask, have a high-gloss, gold-plate finish. In combination with titanium-style fascia panels and rear-printed bronze glass surfaces, this creates an ensemble which exudes a sense of value and immediately upgrades even the most exquisite of kitchens.

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With the exclusive Ice Series, Miele is now venturing into new realms of design. The characteristic trait of the Ice series is its cool appeal. With a material mix comprising aluminium, silver rear-printed glass and chrome, Miele built-in appliances accentuate the cool, puristic design of the kitchen.

Technologically speaking, the new appliance series opens up huge potential in terms of food processing freedom and offers unparallelled convenience. All products in this range feature touch controls. The built-in coffee maker prepares latte macchiato at the touch of a button. Wall ovens features Miele unique Moisture Plus function as well as pyrolytic cleaning, a feature which incinerates residues to ash at high temperatures. The cooker hood uses Con@ctivity to communicate with the hob to allow extraction to be gauged to what is actually going on down below. Miele appliances are communication-enabled and are able to interface with other appliances and control systems.

The series comprises an island and a wall decor hood, a combination oven for a 45cm niche, two wall ovens - 60 cm and 90 cm, two food warmers, a steam oven, an XL combi steam oven, a coffee machine and a flush induction hob.

More images of the new built-in appliances from Miele after the jump ...

Posted May 13, 2010 5:32 PM

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