In case you’re out of paper, this Scan Toaster prints photos, weather reports and more onto your toast.
SlideshowElectrolux sponsors a design contest each year in hopes of discovering a few promising innovations in household appliances.
Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate industrial design students from around the globe compete by submitting their concepts to the Electrolux Design Lab.
Here are a few that caught my attention.
They may be wacky, but they’d sure be helpful around my household.
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Lighting control keypads include13 field-changeable LED colors and a host of faceplate and button colors
DPI, Sunfire and SnapAV deliver high performance at a reasonable price.
Sayonara, set-top box? Or will it just take an energy-saving nap?
It’s hard to imagine life without remote controls, but it’s been a long, strange path to the modern incarnation we know and love today.