Digital Kitchens

The world at your fingertips, all the time

Implications - As the business world becomes more high tech, our personal lives are increasingly infiltrated by cutting-edge electronics as well. From touchscreen cookbooks to tabletops with embedded computers, the kitchen of the future is highly integrated with modern information and communication tools like the internet.

Trend Themes

  1. High-tech Kitchen Equipment — Consumers and businesses are investing more in high-tech kitchen equipment like digital cutting boards and coffee grinders that use digital features for convenience, efficiency, and precision.
  2. Sustainable Kitchen Products — Designers are creating sustainable kitchen products like elegant barcode trash cans and flexible LCD cutting boards that are both eco-friendly and user-friendly.
  3. Integration of Technology in Kitchen — As the world becomes more high-tech, kitchen designs are embracing the integration of technology with innovative products such as digital cooking aids and kitchen workstations with full gadget accessibility.

Industry Implications

  1. Foodservice Industry — The foodservice industry stands to benefit from the use of high-tech kitchen equipment with increased efficiency and precision, providing consumers with comfort-oriented services they will not only pay a premium for but also return for.
  2. Smart Home Industry — The smart home industry is a natural place for high-tech kitchen equipment, and designers and consumers alike are considering smart, sustainable, and efficient kitchen products to complement other popular smart home products.
  3. Sustainability Industry — Sustainable kitchen products, such as barcode trash cans and digital cutting boards, are catering to environmentally conscious customers with sophisticated wearable technology to make life easier for them, and the sustainability industry is investing in integrating these features into other products.
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Featured Examples

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Heartbeat-Controlled Gadgets
Heart-Beans Coffee Grinder
Heart-Beans is not your typical coffee grinder, as it is set to operate according to the user’s heart-beats. The taste of the coffee changes each time according to your heartbeats. Heart-Beans is a… MORE
Culinary Assistants
Culinary Assistants
Interactive Digital Cooking Aid
Hannah Plevin designed a very convenient device she calls an Interactive Digital Cooking Aid. This is a foldable, wall-mounted device with a fully adjustable, removable screen and a scale which comes with… MORE
Hi-Tech Tables
Hi-Tech Tables
Kitchen Workstation
The Kitchen Workstation is the perfect solution for geeky guys and girls who need access to their gadgets all the time; even while cooking in the kitchen. From looking up online recipes, to chatting while… MORE
Spacecraft-Style Kitchen
Spacecraft-Style Kitchen
Ultra Modern Alight Kitchen
Nope, not a kitchen designed by NASA or by an OB-GYN. It was designed by a legitimate kitchen designer that works for Altera Design Studio. It's called the Alight Kitchen. It has a built in oven to keep… MORE
Flexible LCD Cutting Boards
Flexible LCD Cutting Boards
Digital Cutting Board is Eco-Friendly
Kitchen cutting boards have been receiving some design attention, but I did not expect such a high-tech makeover as Nardo Design’s new high-tech Digital Cutting Board with its built-in flexible LCD display… MORE
Recycling Made Easy
Recycling Made Easy
Elegant Barcode Trashcan
We all like the idea of recycling and saving the environment, but sometimes the process of knowing what to recycle and where to put it is rather confusing. For example, not all plastics and metals can… MORE
$11,000 Cup of Joe
$11,000 Cup of Joe
Clover 1s Brews One Perfect Cup at a Time
If a friend or loved one gets this $11,000 single serving coffee maker, you may want to consider an intervention. You are facing a serious caffeine addiction. The Clover 1s is the first of… MORE