Corian Z. Island: taking kitchens to the year 3000

Corian is known for producing all types of wacky materials for your countertop, but the company has dashed straight into the 23rd century with its new "Z" kitchen island (and assorted accessories). The Zaha Hadid designed centerpiece boasts LED touch panels embedded in the table's surface, a mounted Mac for multimedia functions, and three very bizarre looking aroma "devices" which protrude from the island, and can be tweaked to produce various scents. The unit also controls a wall of abstract lighting fixtures, allowing you to alter their color and intensity. Basically, it's the perfect thing to own if James T. Kirk stops by wants you to heat up his coffee and make the room smell like rose petals.

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[Ig @ Jun 26th 2007 3:44AM]

Aroma devices? How perfect, as we all know that fully working, functional kitchens never produces aromas of their own.

[David @ Jun 26th 2007 4:19AM]

Why not a coffeetable computer? Isn't that more futuristic?

[Tim @ Jun 26th 2007 4:25AM]

Come on, this is over a year old news!
This kitchen was shown at Milan design week in April 2006.
http://www.dexigner.com/design_news/5992.html
This already look very dated, not exactly timeless design, nor is it cutting edge, the shapes are straight Colani 1970, and he looks far less dated...
Overhyped Hadid...

[pisbuins @ Jun 26th 2007 5:24AM]

You betcha this is old news, the table is even used in the now year-old house of the future in Brussels. Also, Corian isn't a company who produces materials, it's a material developed by Dupont.

[Mile @ Jun 26th 2007 9:11AM]

Your missing the point - this kitchen is designed for the year 3000.

[Jeff Snugglebutton @ Jun 26th 2007 9:10AM]

Talk about backward compatibility. My great great greatgrankids can still plug in my 5th generation ipod into that thing 100 years later. So, I guess we won't actually be eating and preparing food in our kitchens any longer.

[Mile @ Jun 26th 2007 9:13AM]

You are correct that we won't be eating or preparing food in the year 3000. Do you really see anything in this device that is useful for either of those functions?

[foxdude0486 @ Jun 26th 2007 9:11AM]

This thing looks like something you'd see in 80's movies of kitches in the year 2000. We really fall 100 years behind in what's considered futuristic over the course of 20 years?

That aside, all but the scent stuff, I'd take it. Can't beat playing doom in front of your stove, to make you hungry for the mutilated meat your cooking up.

[hemmy @ Jun 26th 2007 10:13AM]

green alien wenches love a human male who can cook.

[Ed @ Jun 26th 2007 12:01PM]

The aroma appendages would look less out of place on a Sybian :-)

[EatingPie @ Jun 26th 2007 10:41AM]

It will apparently take another 1000 years for us to realize that (a) "Fake Chemical Smell" beats the hell "The Scent of Fresh Baked Cookies" any day, and (b) the Mac really IS superior to the PC, you fanboy you!

-Pie

[dr.octogon @ Jun 26th 2007 11:27AM]

My kitchen rolls on to the year 3000!

[Boynamedsue @ Jun 26th 2007 11:47AM]

kitchens were created by man.
they rebelled.
they evolved.
there are many kitchens.
and they have a plan.

[UKNigel @ Jun 26th 2007 1:36PM]

Unfortunately it doesn't have a built in toaster. Too bad, too bad.

[Mark @ Jun 26th 2007 2:50PM]

seriously, a Mac? Why? While I accept that Mac is a decent computing system a media center PC would make a lot more sense here. Who wants to edit video in their kitchen?

[aggrazel @ Jun 26th 2007 3:05PM]

Looks like a medbay bed from the original Star Trek.

[tekdroid @ Jun 26th 2007 8:42PM]

house of the past, more like it. I don't think humans of the future will want something so cold and clinical, 1950s-nerd-wet-dream-sci-fi concept kitchen.

Besides, according to my warmth-o-meter, practical-o-meter and livability-o-meter, readings are 0%.