Hmm, how do you make men spend time in the kitchen? Clearly exciting lures such as washing up and cleaning won't be enough to get them in there, so perhaps if you designed one that was like a car? And not just any car, but a top of the range Porsche? That should do it!
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Can’t cook, won’t cook? Porsche design the P7340 kitchen to make men like housework
by on 4/04/08 at 7:00am
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Just a few million years ago, ice and fire were both state-of-the-art technologies, and had this Thaw candle been invented back then, it probably would have been condemned as some kind of witchcraft. Luckily, we're totally down with both frozen water and hot heat, so just find this kinda pretty and kinda cool.
I am a little obsessed with eco-friendly prototypes, convinced as I am that the next indispensable yet environmentally sound product is going to hail from this wealth of, frankly, nuttiness. Such a one is this toilet-mounted washing machine which decants the water from your laundry into the toilet tank to be reused for flushing.
I don't believe I've ever written about a musical instrument on Shiny Shiny before, so I thought I'd extend my gadget remit for the new Casio Privia digital pianos.
I had a lovely polished wood piano at home as a child, rarely used but much admired (even after the infamous lamp-breaking, lid-damaging incident), but being a sprog of the 80s I also wanted a synth, which I duly got and, erm, rarely used. Digital pianos are, of course, a lot classier ...
It's foxed the greatest philosophers, the brightest scientists and the most super of all the super computers, for many, many years. How to keep the crunch in your cereal whilst still maintaining the essential milk component?
Thankfully, a crack team have been working on said issue, and has developed the eatmecrunchy bowl.
You know how it is, your eyes peer up groggily in the morning to the sound of annoying beeps, and you look out the window at the gray landscape and sigh, when suddenly the bed starts shaking. You hug your teddy to y
Issey Miyake and Dyson collaboration: from catwalk to living room
by on 8/10/07 at 8:44am
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It's not often we write about Paris Fashion Week - that's generally the preserve of those canny fashionistas at Catwalk Queen - but in this instance a little geekery has surfaced among the high heels and handbags at dawn.Issey Miyake's new creative director, Dai Fujiwara, enlisted the help of none other that hoover king James Dyson to design his wind-inspired set for PFW (not a word about beans, budding Bart Simpsons out there). As a result, Dyson are ...


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