Green Cuisine, the eco kitchen from Philips

Posted by Chris Smith on Wed 15 Oct 2008

Table top cooking hobs? Water temperature settings? Say what?

They love their concepts, do the folks at Philips, and they don't come much concept-ier than the Green Cuisine kitchen unveiled this morning here at the Simplicity 2008 event in Moscow.

This future-themed kitchen is based around a table, comes complete with the ability to cook or heat water anywhere, thanks to some nifty sensors which detect your pan or kettle and apply heat directly underneath. You can then control the settings through touch sensitive LED panels.

You could potentially burn your hands to oblivion with this, but it looks so cool we're willing to take the chance. Especially as you can cool off your frazzled fingers with the opposite setting which will help to keep wine cool. Nice.

You can also reduce your water wastage by selecting the temperature of the water you'd like to emerge from the tap, gliding your fingers along another touch sensitive pad, which, quite quirkily gets hotter and colder as you glide.

An under-the-table composter will compact all your peelings and left-overs and enable you to grow herbs on the table. It's the most eco-friendly kitchen in the history of ever. Philips reckon elements of this dream-esque kitchen will be available in 3-5 years. Start saving, guys.

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