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Efficient kitchen could be your lifestyle coach?
Advanced technology could be your personal trainer?
In 30 years time, kitchens will be so technologically advanced that they could almost be ‘alive’, responding actively to our needs just mother do!
A ‘Future Kitchen’ report by The Future Laboratory, commissioned by home furnishing specialists IKEA, suggests that by 2040 the kitchen could be your personal trainer, dietician, psychologist and lifestyle coach. It could respond to your energy levels, nutritional needs and mood, even with a high use of technology, it will also be sustainable and eco-friendly.
And to reflect this IKEA has created an image of the future kitchen – INTUITIV.
As you walk into this kitchen of the future, LED light projections adjust to your mood – it will know if you have a hangover via sensors that will read your brainwaves. Aromatherapy infused walls will be synced to your calendar, calming you before a big meeting or energising you before a gym session. The fridge will have selected some breakfast options, identifying the essential vitamins for your day via sensors. When you get home, a hologrammed chef will be on hand for recipe inspiration.
Carole Reddish, deputy managing director of IKEA UK & Ireland, says: “The INTUITIV is a possible kitchen of the future with over one third of the UK population (41%) expecting that by 2040 we won’t even have to cook for ourselves! Two more possible future kitchen scenarios are the ELEMENTARA, a kitchen which sees a return to nature, and SKARP, with seamless smart technology.”
Nearly half of us (44%) think that the most important feature in our future kitchen will be energy saving. The ELEMENTARA kitchen aims to encourage grow your own food and be self-sufficient with a garden or mini allotment as a standard extension of the room. Food will be kept cool through cold larders and recycling facilities will be seamlessly incorporated into the kitchen.
Over two thirds of UK consumers (67%) try to buy energy efficient appliances suggesting that ‘green awareness’ is on the rise. IKEA already has products such as the RINGSKAR taps with a flow control function to avoid water waste and the RATIONELL recycling bins which help make household recycling easier.
The SKARP is a smart kitchen smart kitchen that will be intelligent, predicting its inhabitants’ needs with smart technology. Synchronized appliances will make everything happen at the touch of a button, communicating through iPad style devices which will act as the brain of the kitchen, making our lives easier.
More information: www.thefuturelaboratory.com
One Response to “Efficient kitchen could be your lifestyle coach?”
ecoadmin says:
An interesting but highly doubtful concept. However, there is a possibility that for the one third of Brits (41%) who expect they will no longer need to clean, their dreams are set to come true with smart surfaces creating self-cleaning kitchens. Also recycling waste could be done for you?