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11: SaltSpoon


Country: Lithuania
Designer: Barbora Adamonyte
School: Vilnius Academy of Art

What’s your soup missing? The SaltSpoon! A handy little tool for the modern kitchen. Easily add accurate amounts of salt to your soup or sauce using SaltSpoon’s built-in dispenser. SaltSpoon isn’t just for salt though. Replaceable capsules allow you to choose from different ingredients to spice up any meal. SaltSpoon isn’t even just a spoon! With different head types to choose from the SaltSpoon will soon become an irreplaceable kitchen hand that fits right in the palm of your hand.

12: SensualControl


Country: Poland
Designer: Malgorzata Szostak
School: Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice

Sensual Control is a portable control panel that lets you know when your food is ready whilst allowing you to control temperature levels from anywhere in your house. Using wireless technology Sensual Control can tell you if your water is boiling, your pasta is ready or if it’s time to flip that fish. You can focus on more important things and rest assured you’ll never burn a meal. Contained within a small bracelet is all the information and control you need to prepare dinner whilst doing the things that matter most. With Sensual Control you can be the host that you want, not confined to the kitchen but free to entertain and spend time with your guests.

13: Smart Embossed Blender

Country: South Korea
Designer: HwaJin Ock
School: Changwon National University

The human hand has tens of thousands of nerve endings that allow us to tell the difference between smooth and rough or hot and cold. With the Smart Embossed Blender you can feel how smooth or rough your ingredients are while you are blending. You will no longer have to stop blending, look then start, stop and look again. Small embossed bumps on the handle of the blender change with the consistency of the ingredients as they are blended so you can save time and stay in control of your food as you prepare it.

14: SmartPlate


Country: United Kingdom/Romania
Designer: Julian Caraulani
School: Coventry University

Share the recipe of sound with SmartPlate. SmartPlate is the world’s first intelligent dish that physically understands food and transforms it into sound, completing the circle of senses by which we understand what we eat. The plate wirelessly connects to your mobile device, then by measuring different aspects of your ingredients it identifies food and precisely attaches musical notes, harmonies and rhythm to each ingredient. The user can actively listen, compose and interact with recipes of sound, sharing the experience in the most intimate way: by music.

15: Spacepan


Country: Norway
Designer: Christian Bakkhaug
School: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Spacepan is a portable stovetop for the space-conscious cook. Since Spacepan is moveable it may be placed on the kitchen table so the whole family can be part of the cooking process. Spacepan also lets you know how hot the heating elements are using illuminated, colour indicators under each pot. Because Spacepan gives you accurate and specific readings you have greater control of your cooking so you can create delicious meals without fail. In a world where space is more valuable than ever, Spacepan gives you the freedom to cook precisely when and where you want.

16: Spummy


Country: Brazil
Designer: Alexandre de Bastiani
School: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná

The Spummy is the future of flavour creation. Using nano-technology the Spummy creates edible foam with any flavour or combination of flavours you can imagine. With endless possibilities of flavour combinations this is the perfect tool for those looking to impress. Spummy is inspired by Ferran Adrià, the inventor of flavoured foam that helped win him Restaurant of the Year four years in a row. With the Spummy the future of 5 star cuisine is possible in your own home.

17: Tempo blender


Country: Taiwan
Designer: Fu Chun Wan
School: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology

Using Tempo Blender is a fun, instructional way to mix drinks or stir sauces. The Tempo blender can tell you what and how much you need to make a variety of fresh juices, cocktails or sauces. Simply add the ingredients to the blender and shake. As you do, the blender will play music for you to shake in time to. Because you’re using your own energy to shake you save money and time not having to plug the Tempo in. Music and cooking go hand in hand; with Tempo Blender you can have both in your hands.

18: Hurricane


Country: Taiwan
Designer: Kuan-ting Ho
School: National Taipei University of Technology

The Hurricane is a fun and instructional drink mixer for those entertaining at home. All you need are the ingredients and the friends and then Hurricane will do the rest. Fancy a fancy cocktail? Choose from any number of classic drink recipes and the Hurricane will give you step by step directions for what you need and how much you need of it to make professional cocktails for you and your guests. Then with just a touch of a button, the Hurricane will mix and pour the perfect cocktail. It won’t be just another Tequila Sunrise with the Hurricane.

19: Treat


Country: Australia
Designer: Amy Mon-Chu Liu
School: Queensland University of Technology

Tree + Eat = Treat

The Treat seamlessly combines classic food storage techniques, such as vacuum sealing, with modern remote, mobile technology for the perfect combination of freshness and convenience that is more important than ever in our increasingly busy lives. The treat has a clever and intuitive way of communicating and warning you when your food is expiring by firstly, changing colour as the food ages and finally dropping from the tree when the food has expired. You can even access the Treat with a mobile app and tell it to preheat your meal before you even get home. Treat yourself to fresher food and more of your own valuable time with The Treat.

20: Wine Steward

Country: Czech Republic
Designer: Roman Blahynka
School: Brno University of Technology

The Wine Steward is a wine lover’s dream machine. Need that Chablis at a crisp 9°? Maybe you didn’t finish that bottle of Bordeaux but don’t want it to go to waste. The Wine Steward can maintain the perfect temperature for any type of wine to ensure optimal enjoyment from first drop to last. The Wine Steward also creates a vacuum within the bottle to prevent the wine from spoiling so you can be sure that an opened bottle is never a wasted bottle. So sit back, relax and let the Wine Steward pour you the perfect glass of wine every time.