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IKEA Unveils Kitchen of the Future

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I’m doing a lot of future thinking at the moment and getting to spend time with the great and the good of Microsoft to get their views on how that future may look with technology. I’ll have a little more to say on that soon but suffice it to say it’s a big part of my new gig here in Redmond.

Because of that, this story about IKEA’s Kitchen of the Future caught me eye. In conjunction with the cool cats at The Future Laboratory, they  took a punt as to how the kitchen of the future may look – it’s dubbed INTUITIV. Bear in mind my visits to the kitchen are few and far between as I’m limited in the culinary department but highly skilled in the opening the beer fridge department. Despite that, there is some stuff here that I’m liking about INTUITIV

  • celebrity chefs hologrammed in to your home (step up Marcus Wareing)
  • recipe suggestions
  • self cleaning appliances (mine already miraculously self clean…cough)
  • your kitchen will be your personal trainer and dietician as well as lifestyle coach
  • it’ll know your mood of if you’re hungover (lets call that the Saturday morning feature)
  • it’ll be synced to your calendar

the Engadget guys are suitably cynical about it and frankly any predictions of technology that is 30 years off probably should expect that kind of reaction. However…I paid a visit to the Microsoft Home here on our campus in Redmond last week and I can tell you that some of this stuff is already on show. Recipe suggestions? Check. Your mood? Check. Your dietary needs? Check….and more. It’ll use surface displays to help you cook stuff (I know cooking will be old hat in 2040) and as you’d expect it’s synced to your calendar.

Personally I think it’s great to see this kind of stuff from IKEA but as is usually the way with technology, what you think is years away is often around the corner from a technology perspective. The hard part is getting it mainstream and that may well take 30 years. Take a look at what GM and Monsanto thought the kitchen of the future would look like back in the 50’s…truly hilarious.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2010
    Coool, that space agey oven even put the fricken candles into the cake it cooked. Definitely WANT!