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- Attention Hog Toaster Will Leave You if You Neglect it
- This Chicken Leg Holds Spices to Jazz up Your Cooking
- Be Cool: Terra Cotta Pot Cools the Air Using Only Water
- Construction Trailer Transformed Into Gorgeous Play Room
| Attention Hog Toaster Will Leave You if You Neglect it Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT Have you ever considered how your appliances feel when you don’t use them often? Of course you haven’t, because appliances can’t feel emotions. But Brad the toaster notices when you don’t use him – and runs away if you neglect him. Brad is the first product in the experimental Addicted Products from designer Simone Rebaudengo. The Addicted Products project is a speculation about our interaction with objects and how that interaction will change as more household projects become “smart” and connected. Brad notices when you interact with it, keeping track of how often you use it to make toast. If you don’t use it often, it begs for attention by wiggling its sliding on/off button. Interact with Brad by petting it or using it to make toast and it stays happy. Brad never has an owner; each toaster lives in a foster home for a period of time. It is connected to other Brads and keeps track of how often they are used. It feels peer pressure when other Brads are used more than it, and if you neglect it long enough it will decide to leave you for a more attentive host. As Wired points out, this kind of pestering for attention is already being used by software – programs bug you to update them, iPhone apps ask you to rate them, Amazon and eBay beg you to leave feedback after you make a purchase. It’s not that far fetched to believe that other smart objects in our homes will soon have the same ability to ask for attention. When a Brad decides to leave a host home, a courier comes to pick it up and deliver it to another volunteer host. The new host doesn’t know a Brad is coming until it arrives at their door. The inventor says that Brad is a look into the future of home objects that are smart, connected, and able to anticipate their owners’ needs. He asks what the ultimate end would be if an appliance wasn’t receiving the attention it needed. Would it sell itself to a new household? Stop working? Or maybe self destruct? Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| This Chicken Leg Holds Spices to Jazz up Your Cooking Posted: 01 Apr 2014 06:00 PM PDT If you like using herbs and spices in your cooking but hate picking little bits of rosemary out of your teeth after dinner, Tel Aviv-based design studio OTOTO has just the thing. This plastic chicken leg-shaped thing is an herb infuser. You fill it full of the herbs you want to cook with, stick it into the pot with the food while it cooks, and the flavor from the infuser seeps into the food. The product is called Pulke, which to an English speaker looks a little too close to a word we don’t want to associate with food. But in Yiddish the word (pronounced pool-kay) means chicken leg. The infuser helps to flavor your food in a simple and mess-free way, eliminating the need to fish out inedible herbs like bay leaves, star anise, and peppercorns. The adorable herb infuser could also be used to make pots of spiced cider or mulled wine. Since these drinks require straining the spices out of the liquid before drinking, the Pulke could be a clever way to do that with no mess. As long as you can handle drinking a sweet beverage that’s had a chicken leg in it, anyway. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Be Cool: Terra Cotta Pot Cools the Air Using Only Water Posted: 01 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT This terra cotta pot is much more than it seems at first. It isn’t just a decorative item; it cools the air in your home through a concept called bio-air conditioning. The Cold Pot was created by Zurich-based designer Thibault Faverie, and it cools your home with far less electricity than an air conditioner would use. The warm air is drawn into the terra cotta pot by a small fan in the Cold Pot’s aluminum core. The water inside the Cold Pot is absorbed by the terra cotta and drawn to the outer surface, where evaporation releases the cooled water in its gaseous state. The outgoing air is an impressive 48-50 degrees F (8-10 degrees C) cooler than the room temperature. Although the addition of the fan is new, the clay-pot-as-air-conditioner concept has been used for thousands of years. Despite its remarkable and simple functionality, the Cold Pot requires little maintenance or effort on the owner’s part. It takes only a little over a half gallon (two liters) of water to make it work. Besides being functional and elegantly simple, the Cold Pot is a truly attractive item that will look much better sitting on the floor of your living room than that plastic oscillating fan you usually use to cool off. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Construction Trailer Transformed Into Gorgeous Play Room Posted: 01 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT Old trailers left at construction sites more often than not end up as rusting eyesores, forgotten until they are finally disposed of. This abandoned trailer, however, was rescued and transformed into a truly lovely backyard escape. A family in Belgium bought the trailer from the local government for a mere €15 ($20 US), but it was not until designer Karel Verstraeten was asked for a redesign plan it that it became a truly beautiful part of the family’s land. The family all pitched in on the project. They clad the exterior in strips of oak and added a domed window to one end of the trailer, giving a unique fishbowl-type view from the trailer. Inside, curved plywood smoothly covers every surface of the interior. Four wooden rails run the length of the trailer, allowing for a great deal of customization. Pieces of wood can be slid onto these rails to create storage, seating, a desk, or a bed. The layout of the trailer can be changed to suit whatever activity the couple and their two children are engaged in at the time. It’s a quiet study spot, a clubhouse, a guest house, and more. The family’s goal in beginning the project was to create a comfortable place for their children to relax and play. The finished trailer is a beautiful addition to the pastoral setting, blending in with nature and providing exactly the functions that the parents wanted for their kids. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
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