ILVE introduces VELA rangehood with built-in LCD TV

Not that we haven't seen LCD-equipped rangehoods before, but ILVE's VELA just has that art deco flair that so turns us on. All personal details aside, this here kitchen appliance was designed by Marco Valerio Agretti and features a 4-speed touch control extraction, optional automatic switch-on / speed regulation, all stainless steel construction, a light indicator for filter management and a washable anti-grease filter. Now that you've survived that snore-fest, here's the real details you're after: there's a 10-inch LCD TV built right in there, and with that comes a remote control and an RCA input / output for hooking up your cable box, a DVD player or any flavor of game console. Unfortunately, actual specifications of the TV -- as well as pricing for the entire unit -- are nowhere to be found, but it's pretty safe to assume those who have to ask probably won't be buying. [Warning: PDF read link]

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[ShadowMaker @ Oct 29th 2008 6:45PM]

Seriously: what IS a rangehood?

[Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 29th 2008 6:48PM]

It's that thing that sucks up the air above the stove...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extractor_hood

[iEye @ Oct 29th 2008 6:49PM]

its for people that actually cook their own healthy food as opposed to eating out every night....

(sucks the steam, smells & smoke from under the range)

[Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 29th 2008 6:50PM]

Honestly I cook and didn't know what the hell this thing was too...

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 29th 2008 7:05PM]

Microwaving HungryMans don't constitue as cooking. If you 'cooked' you'd use it and would know what it is.

[Forcewinder @ Oct 30th 2008 1:24AM]

um...click the picture and you'll know.

[Romequez @ Oct 30th 2008 8:47AM]

"its for people that actually cook their own healthy food as opposed to eating out every night...."

As opposed to people that actually cook their own unhealthy food, like hamburgers and fries every night...

Because no one who actually cook make unhealthy foods right?

[Random @ Nov 6th 2008 9:22PM]

I just open the window.

[Virtruvian @ Oct 29th 2008 6:49PM]

and how many soldiers were killer in Iraq today? Get real.

[mick @ Oct 29th 2008 6:57PM]

and this is a "tech blog" not a "war blog" besides they knew the risks when they went over there

[bolezhinkov @ Oct 29th 2008 6:58PM]

I think you may be on the wrong internet.

[iEye @ Oct 29th 2008 7:00PM]

What?

[Sam Stone @ Oct 29th 2008 7:23PM]

...and how many innocent Iraq/Afghanistan civillians have died?

[Virtruvian @ Oct 29th 2008 7:38PM]

You guys got it ALL wrong. You call this POS technology? Why don't I just slap an LCD on a cardboard box and call it "technology". Another craptastic device for the utterly senseless. Go do something productive.

[sip @ Oct 29th 2008 7:57PM]

I'm impressed by this one's ability to troll. He must be at level 58 or so

[iEye @ Oct 29th 2008 7:58PM]

What? x2

[Troels C @ Oct 29th 2008 8:46PM]

@Virtruvian #2

This is not about this gadget being relevant or not. It's about what the hell it has to do with dead soldiers...

[Sachin @ Oct 29th 2008 6:57PM]

Nice. Yet another way to be distracted while that fried chicken catches on fire.

"Hey, look what's on the news! The Howards' house burned down! Oh my god, I hope everyone is all - OH MY GOD THE CHICKEN IS ON FIRE!!"

[iEye @ Oct 29th 2008 7:03PM]

A range of this design and size is usually installed in a very large kitchen of a Posh house... I highly doubt I could see desperate housewife (or husband) cooking up fried chicken...

Now fried shrimp is where its at!

[schmitty338 @ Oct 29th 2008 8:18PM]

Actually, there are many, many wealthy people that live in the southern US that just loooooove fried chicken, especially if cooked on an extremely expensive cooktop under a totally ridiculous and overpriced multimedia rangehood.

and WTF is with all the people who don't know what a rangehood is? Even if you don't have one above your own range, SURELY you have seen a (usually stainless steel) device situated above ranges in restaurants, movies, TV, magazines, friend/family homes, etc and been like "WTF is that?" -- at some point in your life.

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 29th 2008 7:00PM]

Awesome! Now you can have a TV in the perfect place to collect grease and get NASTY AS HELL!

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 29th 2008 7:07PM]

Two things wrong with this statement:

1.) The only thing that may escape the range is steam, which is essentially water vapor in its purest form.
2.) If you are boiling grease that it splashes high enough to land on the screen, you have more important things to worry about.

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 29th 2008 7:58PM]

Really now? If the only thing it deals with is steam then why the fuck would it have a grease filter?! Also, from personal experience, rangehoods get really dirty when you cook a lot. And grease is the primary filth that I find on them. So find someone else to incorrectly correct.

[ScooterDe @ Oct 29th 2008 8:16PM]

the steam that inevitably escapes the range hood carries with it fine particles of grease, and this slowly builds to a filthy, grimy crud on your ceiling and walls. Range hoods are useful, but they are not infallible. LCDs near your ceiling are also not going to help keep the kitchen clean....

[SK @ Oct 29th 2008 9:48PM]

"Only water vapor will escape"! Oh, that's right, obviously computer time doesn't allow for cooking time.

These LCD's will be covered in grease in a few weeks. Good luck cleaning them-having scoured ovens and hoods, an LCD screen will be trashed by the hot grease that will burn itself onto a soft LCD screen.

[Johan S @ Oct 29th 2008 7:08PM]

Isn't a TV in the rangehood too high ? I'm tall and I would find it inconvenient too .. so I reckon the average person wouldn't be too happy with straining their neck either.

Rather just having a generic LCD in the kitchen.

[holycow @ Oct 29th 2008 7:30PM]

Totally useless imho!


btw, is the Engadget RSS feed not being refreshed for me only or others are having the problem too? It's still stuck at the "Windows 7 details galore" article.

[holycow @ Oct 29th 2008 7:59PM]

N'mind the feed got refreshed just now somehow.

[MikeWard1701 @ Oct 29th 2008 7:35PM]

OK how many LCDs do you need in a kitchen?

We had the internet/TV fridge, and look how many people bought one of those!

Sound like accidents waiting to happen; discraction whilst cooking, and neck strain from it being so high.

[Mile @ Oct 29th 2008 7:54PM]

One day, everything will have an TV.

[ScooterDe @ Oct 29th 2008 8:17PM]

pimp my kitchen, coming up next...

[htd @ Oct 29th 2008 8:06PM]

for people not 7 feet total, they probably wont see anything, for people 7 feet tall, the stove is probably too low...

[bemused @ Oct 29th 2008 8:10PM]

Who the hell wants to watch a 10" screen that is only 6" from the ceiling?

Besides which, 4:3 aspect ratios are so 20th century.

[KilgoreTrout @ Oct 29th 2008 8:14PM]

I have an LCD in my kitchen but the last place I would want to place it is on the rangehood.
If you have any sense you would not want your monitor integrated with any kitchen appliances at all, but of all of them the too high placed, noisy, greasy, difficult to reach , rangehood is the very last one.
Just imagine if the tv needs to be repaired , what do you do? dismount half of kitchen?

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 29th 2008 10:07PM]

Lol when the tv breaks I think that's when you say, "Shit...oh well it was small and poorly placed anyway...what a waste of money" and then buy a nicer lcd and put it in a proper place.

[Stem $ell @ Oct 29th 2008 11:44PM]

Now your cookin' with plas...

[kregore964 @ Nov 5th 2008 9:26AM]

I LOL'd.

[fahime @ Jan 1st 2009 4:22AM]

To whom it may concern

It is Fahime from Borna Gostar co.
I just want to know the price of range hood with TV.
Is anybody there to answer me?

B.R.
fahime