reactor by simon dufty from new zealand

THE CHAMELEON KITCHEN A decade from now the kitchen will be the digital nerve centre for the rest of the household. Increased connectivity proposes that a technology based kitchen will be used more, even if users are in the house less. Therefore, the task of the product designer will be to keep the environment user-friendly and ‘human’, leading to the embedment and integration of technology that will arise over the next decade, and that this technology is based around compatible electronic linguistics.

REACTOR challenges the idea of a wireless kitchen; it is a power supply for the multiple appliances that are found in this space. Reactor is represented in the form of an electromagnetically induced, articulated sculptural bench top, integrated is an LCD film allowing the surface to display prompts and function as a touch screen. Imbedded technology in products would allow the bench to communicate, for example, if you placed your cell phone on the bench top, the bench top would be able to recognise whether the battery was charged or not. If the battery was not charged, the bench top would automatically respond by charging the battery through electromagnetic induction. In functioning in this fashion, Reactors integrated technology creates an augmented kitchen environment.