Designer Young-Chan Choo has beautifully crafted the cookin table and loaded it with intelligent features. Built low to the ground with a glass table top, it fulfils the dual purpose of cooking and serving. Retractable wooden shelves below the glass table give extra table space. Beneath that is a storage unit to keep simple utensils while cooking and an additional table unit is provided for kids. It is child safe too as the element heats up only when iron like metal touches it and the cooking surface cools down immediately after the cooking process stops.

More...

Tea-time is the perfect time for some chit-chatting and family bonding. We are all proud of our families and would always like to have their love and support all our lives. Here a set of three pots that has of mum and dad looking at the kid as he’s the apple of their eyes. The shoe lace and corset are reminiscent of mum and dad and the kid is nude as is in all artifacts that suggest a family. However, I’m of the opinion that this pattern would have done even better had it been framed on Teacups.

[Designspotter]

Here’s a coffee maker that’s named after an artist. This yellow and red coffee maker is shaped like a weird birdie and I’m wondering how it is inspired by a famous artist, that too Picasso! Going by its description, it is an Alias Model and Hypershot render.

[Coroflot]

I’ve seen some pretty futuristic kitchen concepts alright, but none as revolutionary as the ‘o’ kitchen. Once I launch the list of its high-tech gizmoz, you’d want me to stop, because its too much to believe! I’ll shoot anyways. The spherical kitchen concept hosts a microwave, electric oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, stovetop range, exhaust hood, LED lighting, touch screen control panel with online access and MP3 functions, a DVD player, sink, digital cookbook system, kitchen management software, built-in audio speakers, storage galore, garbage disposal, fire alert system and a remote control access system. Now I know why they have named this kitchen as ‘O’ kitchen, because your mouth conforms to a perfect O when you see it!

More...

Industrial designer Karim Rashid is popular for his wacky and mind-blowing designs, but the fact he could churn out ecological designs with consideration for the environment, is a revelation for us. Karim Rashid has collaborated with Move Collectible, LLC to introduce the Bobble Water Bottle that filters tap water as the user drinks it. Bobble is fitted with a replaceable carbon filter that removes chlorine and organic contaminants from municipal tap water. A single Bobble filter equates to at least 300 water bottles, which means that it could save us a lot of money. This is a wonderful design concept that could trim down landfills and contribute to the wellness of the ecology. The Bobble bottle could come in handy for a journalist traversing remote territories, where water is in acute scarcity.

More...

While organizing a lunch or dinner for friends, we pay attention to the minutest of details in selecting the crockery, choosing the table napkins, laying the table etc. But when it comes to laying the table napkins we do not have many options. Keeping this in mind Kim Katinis from Greece has designed this stylish napkin holder. Made in shiny silver, “Lecygne” embraces the napkin allowing it to stand gracefully on the table. It remains a centre of attraction on the table even when it stands alone.

More...

If you are a big connoisseur of percussion instruments, it’s pretty natural to assume that you would like to incorporate the act of ‘graceful shaking’ in everything that you do. Here’s a product designed by Italian designer Roberto Giacomucci that endorses that act. He has designed a coffee shaker that resembles the popular Puerto Rican Percussion instrument, the Maracas. The 5 part shaker only requires one hand to mix coffee beverages, which makes your work quite easy.

More...

I love designer cutlery. And I am always on the lookout to add new sets to it. The beautiful Vin Eau Carafe and two cups set is the most perfect addition to my cutlery collection. Designed by Scott Henderson the Vin Eau comprises of beautiful 1.5ltr porcelain carafe and two cups. It can be used to serve water or wine and makes for a beautiful piece of dining table décor. The beautiful red cups perch beautifully on the carafes opening enhancing the porcelain structures beauty. This unique piece promises to be the hot topic of all your dinner table conversations. A must have piece, it is simply amazing.

[Mintnyc]

Dish drainers are one of the most common appliances in every kitchen. The large size of ordinary dish drainers makes it really hard to find a storage space. But the new Dish Drainer Geo designed by designer Jorre van Ast for Royal VKB promises to rid you of your storage woes. Designed based on geographical contour lines to drain small amount of washing-up, this new drainer is definitely a class apart. The gentle change in levels forces the water to drain off. The dish drainer is flat and thus takes up very little space. What is more, thanks to its unique design, you are more likely to display it rather than store it away. The amazing dish drainer is available in two colors, grey and blue.

More...

This one goes out to all the egg lovers out there. The egg bowl with a shell bowl is a concept that also allows interaction to happen between the user and the preparation of eggs. The egg bowl has a beveled edge that helps in cracking the egg and it is made out of porcelain. Both the bowls symbolize the symbiotic relationship between the egg and shape. Honestly, more than anything it really appeals to the eye.

[Coroflot]

The discarding chore of the dustbin is always accompanied by a dustpan. Why use two things when you can efficiently function with one? The Triangle+ is a tool that functions both as a dustbin as well as dustpan, the difference between the two being a distance of 90 degrees as they can be tipped to stand on its end. Keep your house tidy with the multi-functional Triangle+ with a cool design.

I’m many times stuck in an awkward situation where I land up without a stirrer or a spoon to stir my coffee. The urge to use my finger to do it is so strong during such times but in a public place, of course I can never really resort to that. But now, Finger Coffee gives us the license to use the finger for stirring purposes. The coffee can be stirred with the finger through the flexible lid of the coffee cup. This is definitely a very new kind of a user experience. I’m thrilled to use it sometime!

Thanks, Peter!

Worried who will feed your pooch while you are at work? Well, designer Andrea Carolina offers a solution with her unique concept device for food. The unique device is a dispenser that requires you to fill the quantity and time at which the dog should be fed. Once programmed it dispenses the amount at the time scheduled. All your doggy needs to do is go to the dispenser which am sure he/she will. A great device, as long as you keep refilling the dispenser always, it promises to provide food for your canine while you are away.

More...

This has been the perfect thing to write about while starting the day. The smile cup, is a very cute coffee mug or a tea cup (can be used as either) that’s a simple design and yet is so extra-ordinary. The cup is half a cup, to be literal, in the shape of a smile, while the smiley’s eyes are fixe don the saucer, so if you look from the top, the cup becomes the smiley and the entire set is one cute smiley. It primarily signifies the grin smiley :-D But the other options have the eyes in a wink, anger and other emoticons. I would so love to have this; it definitely will uplift anybody’s bad mood at the start of the day.

[IndustrialDesignServed]

Designers Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot of Faltazi have designed a conceptual waste recycling unit called Ekokook. This project aims at processing kitchen and house wastes as close as possible to the place where they are produced that is the kitchen. Here solid waste is selected, processed and stored in containers. A reservoir and two pitchers under the sink are used for collecting water which is then recycled. A container unit in the form of a rotating drum is proposed to collect organic wastes such as fruit and vegetable peelings, leftovers etc. which are broken down by earthworms. The idea of storing garbage so long in the kitchen and keeping live earthworms there seems repelling. Source

More...