Tomorrow's Cuisinarts

Cory Doctorow 7:49 am Mon May 5, 2003

Clive Thompson has written a great roundup of futuristic kitchen gadgets for the NYT:

Cukit Kit Cart
Karen Scanlan, Dale Wunderlich, Lucas McCann, Iteem Yiting Hu and SuDong Cho, Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
To maximize space in tiny apartment kitchens, the designers went in the only direction possible: up. This high-tech rolling cart expands like a Swiss Army knife and is filled with swing-out units — some refrigerated and some heated — to hold ingredients and tools. Swing-out cutting boards and heating pads put everything within easy reach of the stove. The coup de grace? The computer screen on top, which you can use to display Iron Chef videos while you cook.

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