C+D (Cook+Dine)

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Designer: Zhiyuan Zheng

Categories: Dining | Kitchen | Product Design | Technology

Year: 2031-2040

Overview: In current information era, wireless technologies are linking people together with a distance. However, it also becomes an excuse for not meeting each other. I believe, the technologies in the near future should embed in such a way that bonds people physically and emotionally, while hiding its form in the background.

Studies show that individualism leads to people living alone till an older age. This brings the problem of eating and cooking unaccompanied. In this situation, many people gradually get into unhealthy eating styles, such as consuming too much fast food.

C+D takes advantages of social computing, proposing a “new” lifestyle of cooking and eating together. With the ongoing trend of posting photos and videos of food on many social media, why not turn this into a motivation for actually gathering together! By using supporting services, these messages become more intriguing that eventually leads to the action of users visiting each other more often. These positive actions will also accumulate virtual points for users, which can be exchanged with discounts or similar privileges offered by Electrolux. In this way, an eco-system of healthy lifestyle is formed. With further researches, more detailed proposal of this product-service design will be shaped.

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Fum-e

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Overview: Fume-e is not only a stylish way to take care of your kitchens air purification. It is tomorrows fun and easy way to make sure that the food you cook and serve in your kitchen is healthy and safe to eat. It helps you and your family to cook by calculating preparing and cooking time. It has a receipt library where you can find, create and share step by step instructed recipes. It is also a great way to educate your kids through an adaptable game concern foods nutritional values, cooking and healthy eating habits.
Design features
Power full and silent ventilation eliminates all unpleasant odours and fumes.
Behind the Fum-e’s stylish blue light stripe on the side is 360 degree sensor that scans your food and tells you nutritional values and quality of the ingredients. Behind the stripe is also a kinetic sensors to operate the system hygienic way by movement.
Fum-e projects plasma hologram above its glass top creating clear futuristic display to show all the information and instructions.

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Designer: Joona Tapio Hinkkanen

Ilumineat

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Overview: Ilumineat is made of Graphene and OLED technology, which makes it lightweight and malleable. It is powered by flexible solar cells located on the reverse of the canvas. It has been designed to accompany the user through the whole process of cooking to the final presentation before eating, being a powerful assistant and a smart kitchen tablecloth.
When cooking, you’ll be able to choose the dishes you like from anywhere in the world, learning how to prepare them through step-by-step videos to reach an excellent result.
After the preparation comes the presentation of your gastronomic masterpiece. When you put the plate on the Ilumineat, the canvas recognizes the dish and displays a short animation in relation to it. The plate is illuminated and the images fade softly into a background color.
Finally, it’s time to eat! While you enjoy your dish, you will see how it links to this interactive tablecloth, creating an instance of harmony between the two. So relax and let Ilumineat do the work.

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Designer: Camila Labarthe

Nutrima

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Overview: The Nutrima Kitchen Scale concept combines piezoelectricity with smart and flexible technologies, making consumers more aware of food and it’s quality.

In the urbanizing world, we cannot take fresh, pure and healthy food as granted. Nowadays fresh and healthy ingredients are highly appreciated and the trend of cooking together is growing rapidly, yet even the most aware consumers cannot always tell whether the food they eat is fresh, healthy, or pure from toxins. This is a real concern especially for those with limited food supplies, funds, strict special diets or little children. Nutrima allows consumers to choose between alternatives by their actual qualities, allowing them to prepare the healthiest meal possible.

Before use, Nutrima is charged by bending repetitiously, creating enough electric charge for the scale to operate for the time needed.

Along with weight, it analyzes the food’s or ingredient’s weight, basic nutritional information (energy, protein, carbohydrates and fat content), freshness level, and cautions the user of high levels of the most common toxins, such as mercury. Nutrima can also be used as a traditional kitchen scale when measuring ingredients in a bowl.

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Designer: Janne Palovuori