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Lunar-Inspired Rice Cookers

The 'Midea' Cooker Expresses Cooking Cycles with Lunar Phases

— March 6, 2017 — Art & Design
A number of kitchen appliances like rice cookers are being given stylish overhauls as seen with the conceptual 'Midea' as a means of making them more contemporary in aesthetic. The 'Midea' cooker is the design work of Abel Seo and is intended to be a great piece of equipment for cooking rice to perfection from start to finish.

The appliance features a lunar cycle-inspired cooking indicator that shifts to let you know when the rice is ready. This is done as a way to anticipate the food being ready to eat in the same way that we anticipate the full moon to come about.

The 'Midea' appliance changes the aesthetic assumption for rice cookers that they have to have a somewhat simple design and that they can be designed with style in mind.
Trend Themes
1. Stylish Kitchen Appliances - Opportunity for companies to create kitchen appliances with stylish designs to appeal to contemporary aesthetics.
2. Lunar-inspired Indicators - Potential for incorporating lunar-cycle inspired indicators in kitchen appliances to provide a unique and visually appealing cooking experience.
3. Anticipatory Cooking Technology - Disruptive opportunity to develop cooking appliances with features that anticipate the readiness of the food, enhancing user experience.
Industry Implications
1. Kitchen Appliance - Opportunity for the kitchen appliance industry to offer stylish and modernized designs to attract consumers.
2. Home Decor - Potential for the home decor industry to collaborate with appliance manufacturers to create visually appealing and decorative kitchen appliances.
3. Cooking Technology - Disruptive potential for the cooking technology industry to develop innovative appliances that can anticipate and communicate food readiness.
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