Whirlpool Faucet Band Reminds You When Your Water Consumption Exceeds Some Levels

Most of us are serious water conscious. Being in the midst of water scarcity, we tend to save water. There are many water saving devices available in the market today, however, the new Whirlpool Faucet Band looks exceedingly cute and easy to use as well. The band features the LED time monitor for effortless monitoring, color altering LEDs as marker and side push buttons for control. The Faucet band is very simple to use, you just have to fit the band over the top of the spout and set your preferred goal for running water time in the LED time screen by pressing those side buttons and you’re done. As you run out of the specified water time, the water will start to change color by making use of the band’s color changing LEDs. This way you will be warned whenever the water consumption exceeds the desired levels and therefore it won’t allow you to use more. Simple and inexpensive as it appears to be, this gadget helps save water within the home.

O-Zone Handheld Vacuum Cleaner Design for Hard-To-Reach Areas

Nothing can be as frustrating as cleaning those hard-to-reach areas. Although we take all possible steps to clean up those areas, most of time it ends up in vain. Well, vacuum cleaners make the job easy for us, however, not all models serve their purpose. You may have to carry such hefty vacuum cleaner wherever you want to clean. To overcome this situation, the concept of handheld cleaners came into existence. Handheld vacuum cleaners offer the ultimate convenience to handle and as well makes the job quite easy. They are available in an assortment of models and sizes. The design by Linda Xinrui Jiang is the O-Zone vacuum cleaner. As the name suggests, the model takes the shape of O. Quite simplistic in design, this handheld vacuum cleaner works wonders over hard-to-reach areas and gets rid of the dusts without any hassle. It offers ease in handling unlike other products available in the market today. Thanks to the innovative thinking of the designer.

Electro Ice-Cream Machine Features Super Portability For Easy Ice-Cream Making

Doesn’t matter if you don’t like ice-creams at all, electro ice-cream machine concept still will enable you to surprise your friends and families with interesting magic tricks of making ice-cream from nowhere. Alternatively, if you are a blind lover of ice-creams, this innovative gadget will give you freedom beyond your limit.

The colorful ice-cream maker features a nice outlook which includes a round glass bowl that can be put into the machine with all your favorite ice-cream or cocktail ingredients. Using elastomeric elements in the cover gives it an airtight close, eliminating any possibilities of spills. The single round operation button makes it simplified which can be monitored through the LED indicators on the surface. The square button is for opening the cover for putting in or taking out the inner ice cream bowl. The concept has been designed to disassemble for easy cleaning and is being anticipated to be available at 100 Euros. However, the designer has not mentioned something about the power source, considering its super portability, I am pretty sure its battery operated, maybe a lithium-ion one that can hold its charge for at least 4 hours of operation.

IC3 : Spoon, Fork, and Knife can Analyze Your Food

Get ready to have intelligent crockery with you, wherever you go. This crockery can analyze the sugar, fat and lactose level available in your food. This intelligent shaft has three different types of add on including spoon, fork and knife. The spoon adds the weight of food eaten, the knife can measure temperature and the fork can take small probes of the food and analyze the components of fat, proteins, and sugar. The device is equipped with Bluetooth and that is why it can easily send the data measured and displays it on a personal nutritional agenda website. This type of product can help you out in having healthy food everywhere you go.

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Imagine having always intelligent cutlery with you, giving you a feedback, no matter where or what you eat. That is IC3. An intelligent shaft has 3 different add ons: spoon, fork, knife. Each add-on can also fulfillanother duty: the spoon adds the weight of food eaten, the shaft adds it. The knife can measure temperature and the fork can take small probes of the food and analyze it by its components like fat, proteins, lactose, sugar. Being equipped with bluetooth,the intelligent shaft can send the data measured for example to a personal nutritional agenda on the website of someone.

IC3 is not only a help for people suffering from diabetes or lactose insufficiency, but could help everyone to feed healthy everywhere. Located in the near future – e.g. all technology exist nowadays, only food analysis has to be miniaturized a step further. IC3 was chosen to be displayed at the “Designparcours Munich 2008″ at the “Forum for Young Design” same year.

Hotpot BBQ : BBQ and Herg Garden in One

If gardening were your favorite leisure pursuit, then you would look for growing herbs and different varieties of plants both indoor and outdoor. You must have used an assortment of terracotta pots; however, have your heard of a pot that conceals a BBQ grill underside? It may sound silly, but it is real. Resembling exactly similar to that of terracotta pots with a BBQ grill concealed underneath. Have your BBQ and herb-garden all in one. Season your food you’re going to cook over the grill with herbs that grows on the top. It is perfect for small terrace and balconies and as well looks excellent when not in use. This model, made from stainless steel 430 includes stainless steel tongs and heat insulating ceramic coating with a cooking area of 29 cm. Serving as a two-way purpose, this collective occupies less space in your garden and is sure to hit the shelves.

Espresso On Four Legs Is A Breakthrough For Conventional Coffee Makers

An espresso machine that sits on a tabletop and pours a coffee cup is something we can easily see around. Now, even the espresso machine realized its time to stand up and rejuvenate in the form of Espresso on four legs, an innovative concept espresso machine that can ensure handy use along with extraordinary interior aesthetics. The cylindrical main body is mounted horizontally above the coffee cup with the support of a beautiful white shell, giving a feel of floating the espresso machine over the cup. Each side of the cylinder comprises a door to enter water through one door and coffee capsules through another. Operating the espresso machine is super easy with only two buttons to prepare short or long espresso.


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Let Your Pet Recharge Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier

Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier was designed to complete the task about creating a hybrid energyhumidifier when Yuan Gu was a junior student of Beihang University, China. Two important elements in this project were eco friendly and energy saving. This concept humidifier works in 2 modes: Standard and Hybrid. In Standard mode, this humidifier works by getting its power from external electric sources. This is the common way of using the humidifier, in this case the “hybrid” element is not in use. In Hybrid mode, Wool Ball works by getting its power from integratedbattery. To recharge the battery, you can just plug the cable or roll it. As this device rolls, it emits a sound while the generator inside re-charges the battery. You can use it as a toy for your pet, it could be really fun.

Eight Finalists Of Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Design Competition

Electrolux design lab has announced the eight finalists of their design competition 2010 that was focused on creative solutions for compact future living. Industrial design students throughout the world has submitted their innovative ideas on preparing and storing food, washing cloths and do dishes, and here you can see the 8 finalists.

1. The Kitchen Hideaway by Daniel Dobrogorsky

Think of a food, and get it served. The kitchen hideaway gives user the opportunity to visualize a food and transmit it to the robotic chefs located in a distinguished place who will prepare the meal with real ingredients. This concept diminishes the need of individual kitchen in every house of a communal buildings and thus, saves a lot of space.

2. The Snail by Peter Alwin

Cooking on the go. The snail concept is a compact and versatile cooking device that can be attached directly on to a pan, a pot, a mug, etc. to heat the content through magnetic induction process. Empowered by high density sugar crystal battery, this concept lessens the amount of space needed for conventional cooking while giving ultimate portability.

3. Elements Modular Kitchen by Matthew Gilbride

Kitchen shelving becomes more efficient. A range of individual units creates a complete solution for cooking, air conditioning, refrigeration, lighting and environmental design, powered by solar energy through wireless technology applied in the wall which minimizes the space required as well.

4. Bio Robot Refrigerator by Yuriy Dmitriev

Instead of conventional shelves, this innovative refrigerator concept contains odorless and non sticky biopolymer gel which cools the food through luminescence. Adaptability is another notable factor, you can use this refrigerator both vertically and horizontally, even you can hang it on the ceiling. Sounds weird, right?

5. Clean Closet by Michael Edenius

How about your closet cleans your cloths? Clean closet concept can scan textiles for impurities and clean them accordingly through molecular technology that can efficiently remove dirt and odors from cloths.

6. Dismount Washer by Lichen Guo

By combining the laundry basket and cleaning vessel into a compact and stylish capsule, dismount washerconcept takes very small amount of space and can be hanged on the wall for enhanced interior aesthetics.

7. External Refrigerator by Nicolas Hubert

With pure and simple shape and finish, external refrigerator can be directly fixed on the outside wall of buildings and perfectly elaborate the northern Chinese lifestyle by providing the right temperature to the food through transmitting the external temperature at night and during cold seasons. This concept uses solar energy, thus reduces the consumption of electricity and complements to the environment as well.

8. Eco Cleaner by Ahi Andy Mohsen

From the perception of supplying future foods in the form of capsules, eco cleaner portable dishwasher and composter concept features a capsule like shape and the ability to ionize food through ultrasonic waves and turn it into reusable waste.

The Kitchen Hideaway Design

Nowadays, virtual reality is nothing but an advanced technological means of fun and enjoyment, at best, for playing games and some top level trainings, but who told that this tactile way of communication can’t be implemented for the good of our everyday life?

The Kitchen Hideaway is made of two key parts, one is the head set and another is the fully automated remote kitchen, uses virtual reality to create a computer generated kitchen from where users can transfer their thoughts to the remote kitchen which prepares the meal with real ingredients and deliver them to the user. This automated food factory can be placed at a specific part of a residential building which eliminates the need of individual kitchen for every house, providing more usable space inside. This innovative means of cooking gives user the alternative to customize their kitchen and enables even the physically disabled person to become an expert chef. Don’t feeling like cooking? No problem at all, tell the kitchen to prepare your previously saved recipe and have your preferred meal delivered in no time.

The Kitchen Hideaway Makes Cooking Fun Through Combining Virtual Reality With Real Life