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Tea kettle concept almost boils your water with an incandescent light bulb
Incandescent light bulbs are definitely not in fashion these days (the last time we stepped inside Ikea we were greeted with their announcement that the company plans to stop selling them) because of their total lack of efficiency. Don't tell that to this concept for a tea kettle, however, which uses the wasted energy of the bulb (nearly 98 percent) to make water for your tea. Now, it doesn't actually bring it to a boil -- just to 194 degrees Fahrenheit -- but many tea enthusiasts will tell you that your water should be just off the boil anyhow. So there.
Domestic visionary Dyson's totally square kitchen
James Dyson, the man who single-handedly transformed the vacuum cleaner from a symbol of domestic oppression to an object of techno-lust, is back on the scene with not one, but a whole coterie of kitchen appliances designed to save space -- by sticking 'em in a box. No longer must Americans stand for tea kettles shaped like tea kettles, toasters shaped like toasters, or for juicers... you get the idea. What's more, these guys are all designed to work together: controls are uniformly placed on the top or front panels, with devices sharing common power supplies. As it stands, this is all currently little more than a story dreamt up on the basis of a patent, fodder for a slow news day, and something which neither Dyson nor his colleagues commit to actually making a real reality -- even if patent US 2009/0095729 tells us a different story. But what the hell? A guy can dream, right?[Via Core77]
