What’s better than a bar fridge? A bar fridge shaped like a PC. The guys at HP sent us one of these last week for Christmas, and we just got the chance to unbox it today. As you can see from the photo, there’s even blue LED lights on the front and a bottle opener built into the design. The USB ports look a little fake up close (they are fake), but on the whole the entire thing looks fantastic…
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A research team at Stanford has developed a thermos-sized refrigeration device that uses no electricity. Instead, it contains some sort of coolant that becomes cold when exposed to heat.
When they’re not designing $US1,500 OLED keyboards or hot WiMax phone concepts, it’s good to know the guys over at Art Lebedev Studio like to keep the common folk in mind, sometimes. The common folk who will like to pin up printouts of Gizmodo posts to their fridge with these pixel-art mouse-pointer magnets. They’re about 2.5-inches tall and will run you $US4 in the Art Lebedev store. [Art Lebedev via Pocket Lint]
Digital picture frames are deepening their grip on society… they’re bored with being on your keychain and desk, now they’ve got designs on your fridge door. Meet fridge magnet digital picture frames and try not to scream. Expensive fridges with built in LCD screens? No… just chuck a couple of these up and you can have cycling slideshow of all the family members. 2.4-inch LCD screens, 32MB memory, 11 hours of pics from the USB-rechargeable battery and a built-in clock display. What more could you ask for? US$60. [Redferret]
Forget fridge magnet poetry— you know you only used it to make up smutty phrases anyway—stick these fridge leaves on that boring metal door, and you’d have your own indoor forest. Granted it would be much more “lovely” if it was made of real leaves not plastic ones, but I reckon they’ve got a charm all of their own. Designer Richard Hutten created them for office ceilings in a Rotterdam museum, and now they’re being commercialised. No word on pricing or availability yet. [Dezeen] galleryPost('magleaves', 3, '');
Coolers get the job done, but you have to deal with ice and the fact that the bulky boxes are often awkward to carry. I’m lazy, which means that I want to get my beer from point A to point B as easily as possible (and I’m not willing to ride a Cruzin Cooler to do it.) The “Boxcooler” concept from designer Sebastian Bertram offers a stylish solution with a backpack cooled by refrigeration.
Whirlpool’s latest tech for their refrigerator line is based on their “centralpark” feature, which is a essentially dock that lets you plug in a bunch of different gadgets into the big gadget that holds your food. Among the things that you can dock are the Brandmotion iPod Speaker system, which withstands “the frequent opening and closing of the freezer door” without dropping your iPod onto the ground.
This fridge magnet has a screen that displays a calendar, a whiteboard, and a camera for video messages to family members.
If it weren’t for my obnobvious headline, you’d all be wondering what the hell this is. Just 15 of these Champagne tower chillers, with room for a dozen magnums in individual, lit drawers, have been designed for Veuve Cliquot by Porsche Design. Want to see what it looks like open? More »
