Concept cooker makes pans obsolete

A brand new cooker designed by manufacturer Electrolux has been showcased in a concept video, with the device having the ability to make frying pans and woks a thing of the past.

Electrolux says that it will not be turning its Heart of the Home gadget into a reality quite yet. In fact it believes that most consumers will have to wait about 40 years to see one in their own homes.

The device itself is an all-in-one cooking solution, consisting of a single malleable surface that responds to the user’s touch commands. You should be able to mould the surface with your hands to create the shape of the receptacle that you desire and panels will appear next to active surface areas in order to adjust the heat levels and set a cooking time.

In the promo video, which is animated and completely conceptual, it looks as though the user will be able to access recipe information on the surface as well via a touch sensitive screen, presumably with internet connectivity built-in.

A sink unit is also integrated into the Heart of the Home device and it should be able to boil water and even allow you to transfer it over to a pan for rice or pasta cooking. Since the surface acts as the cooking, preparation and possibly even the eating surface, the washing up will be minimised.

The one thing that Electrolux does not seem to have factored into its concept cooker is Shrove Tuesday, as it will presumably make the flipping of pancakes impossible due to the lack of utensils.

The Intelligent Wine Cooler

You’ve got to either really love your wine, or simply have to have every conceivable digital gadget on the market, to want a device that will precisely cool any bottle to the perfect temperature dependent on the type of wine. Well, if you fall into either of the above categories, then you’ll be pleased to hear that IWOOT has just that very product at a not entirely unreasonable £69.95(!).

The Intelligent Wine Cooler negates the need to alter the fridge settings just to get one bottle of wine to the right temperature. It also assists those of us that don’t have the first idea of what the correct temperature for a bottle of wine is. As well as being a rather impressive looking cooler it also has an LCD display with a database of 30 of the more common varieties of wine including their ideal serving temperature.

Basically, you slap your bottle of Lambrini into the gadget, use the buttons next to the backlit screen and either select the type of wine you want or enter your own temperature settings. The cooler, which includes a cooling/warming collar, will then do the rest of the work for you.

Write Top Secret Messages On Toast

Have you ever needed to write a secret message to someone? Well we have found a super cool gadget that may help you out!

This little gizmo toasts a message onto a piece of bread, all you have to do is write your message on to the front of the toaster and press a button and your message will be etched onto a piece of bread – the best feature is that you can actually eat the message once it has been delivered. Now that is one cool gadget.

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