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10 Creative And Noteworthy Kitchen Companions
Worst Idea: Cords
Use Your Water Twice

Posted: 22 May 2009 05:39 AM PDT

The “Salt&Pepper Cell” shakers belong to the "I’m not product series” by Antrepo Design. They previously gave us the Minutuner, which was an awesome design for a clock. While that one confused us to believing it's a Radio Tuner, the Salt&Pepper Cell serenade as a pair of whimsical D size battery. Fashioned from stainless steel and glass, the power indicators on the sides correlate to the amount of spices left in the shakers, before refill time. The Red&Turquoise and Black&white color options look fantastic!

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10 Creative And Noteworthy Kitchen Companions

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:50 AM PDT

Kitchen and people have a love-hate relationship. Many love to hate the chores involved in the process of cooking. Others simply can't just stop boasting about their culinary skills. For me the toughest part is the chopping of veggies and managing my refrigerator. For you it may be doing the dishes. What we can't deny is the lure of a prim and proper kitchen that is fitted with the best of best appliances and aids that make cooking a pleasure. Here's a look at Ten Creative Kitchen Companions that can make you the perfect chef!

10) Coo Boo - Digital Cookbook by Philipp Gilgen

Digital age is here people and the next step in recipe management is the Coo.boo digital cookbook. Hang it up next to the ladles or stack it next to the dishes, it syncs and stores all your secret stuff that even Monica Geller can't access.

9) Cooking Stones by Ki-hoon Yoo

Using electromagnetic induction the Stones roast veggies, beans or meat; remove the stones and use them to heat water or soup or even cook meat from the inside. Either ways an appliance like this can make you look like the ultimate know-it-all high-tech chef!

8 ) Soft Mobile Refrigerator by Qingxiang Ou, Jingchang Chen, Wenmin Li, Lei Zhang, Rui Qi, Lu Song, Peng Zhou, Xiaoyan Deng, Haifeng Liu & Longfei Li

That's not a tent in the middle of your kitcen; it's a fridge for heaven's sake! Portable, expandable, soft, alluring and plain old AWESOME! It's the next-gen Refrigerator!

7) Knead Helper - Helps Knead Dough for People with Arthritis by Nate Braxton

Bottom-line, my ma-in-law can no longer use her Arthritis as an excuse once I get her this Knead Helper. She can use this contraption to knead dough and help me out in the kitchen sometimes!

6) Balance Silver Kitchen Scale by Hannes Mayer

Time to discard that hands-me-down scale that mom used while baking. Measure out ingredients in style. This one's an actual product that you can add to your kitchen. Taking advantage of gravitational pull, the device easily weighs a load on a cleverly designed rocker. Goods up to 2 kg are precisely weighed by shifting a weight.

5) Vegetable Twister by Nose Design Intelligence

You need not be an Italian by birth to love Spaghetti, and those oodles noodles need not be created by flour alone. The Vegetable Twister challenges your creativity with cucumbers, potatoes, zucchini, radish and many other types of vegetables. Shove them in the Twister and shape out Cucumber Pasta!

4) Öz Pepper Grinder by Ahmet Bektes and Koray Gelmez

Giving the mortar and pestle a decoy is this Öz pepper grinder. It's fashionable, sounds so Down Under and looks adorable. The Turkish marble just makes it more Royal!

3) Blue by Ahmet Bektes, Koray Gelmez & Eda Kose

Fresh fruits stay fresh with this Blue concept fruit bowl that uses Action Fresh Blue technology to keep the zing. The blue wavelength inhibits and kills bacteria thereby prolonging shelf life. A bowl of fruit on the kitchen platform always adds to the décor, and arranged in a bowl like this, it looks divine!

2) Knife Sharpener by Adam Clark

A good cook knows the value of a sharp knife but a bad cook values it even more. Blunt knives can be sharpened easily with this Sharpener and its somehow adds an essence of sophistication to your kitchen ambience. Like showing how much you care about maintaining your cooking tools.

1) BasicKnives by Caroline Noordijk

How I adore this knife! A total Dreamboat! "The set of knives makes other kitchen tool redundant by incorporating different (cutting)-actions within the un-used surfaces of the blades."
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Worst Idea: Cords

Posted: 22 May 2009 12:01 AM PDT

So you’ve got cords. I know you do. Here’s the solution for you. That’s assuming you’ve got beef with cords! Which most people generally do at one time or another in their cordy lives. Here it is. It’s DOTZ. It’s made up of three different kinds of accessories: Dotz™ CordIdentifiers™, Dotz CordStraps™, and Dotz ™ CordWraps™. I imagine that you’re hardcore enough to guess which is which and what they do, generally. Worth it? Cute enough colors and icons?

Each of these thangs is reusable in one way or another. And I think the colors are pretty darn cute with those icons. Would they be helpful to you? I certainly wouldn’t mind a few of these if I were in an office environment where cords were an issue.

I imagine the makers of Dotz wouldn’t mind a bit of feedback on their dotty dot business, so speak candidly and without a dot of hesitation!

Designer: Micah L. Maraia

blue, cord, cord handling, cord ties, cord troubles, cords, cute, kawaii, Office, orange, pink, product design, purple, red, taggin, yellow

Use Your Water Twice

Posted: 21 May 2009 10:33 PM PDT

It goes in the sink, then it goes in the toilet. What’s that? It’s your water bill! You’ve got to conserve in any way you can. Here’s a lovely simple system that makes use of the fact that toilet water never needs to be as clean as it usually is. The “Eco Bath” concept uses 50% reused water and 50% new water for a toilet system half-ways to nature friendly.

You simply must read this little poem written about this toilet system by it’s designer, Jang Woo-seok:

Express the flow of water.
General water, the blue pipes.
Green pipes, water reuse

Fresh, yes?

Jang gets the idea for the Eco Bath from the naturally flowing waterways all around us. Naturally moving, naturally cleaning. Tagged “Green”, naturally.

Designer: Jang Woo-seok