Monday, April 07, 2003

And I thought the internet fridge was a weird idea!

An internet toilet roll browser and a net-enabled chopping board are among cutting edge designs at the Ideal Home Show.

A unit installed in front of a toilet on the cubicle wall provides up-to-the-minute information on products, stocks and shares and lottery results. People can even print off the information on a standard toilet roll.

Although many products profess to be embedded internet devices, they are often little more than PCs packaged in other cases, such as a fridge door. Brunel graduate Charly Ingrey-Senn hopes his internet-enabled cutting board will be different. It contains a microprocessor-controlled system capable of browsing the web. It can download recipes and display them on a screen within the board itself providing inspiration for even the most uncreative cook. [via BBC]

Jon 12:35 PM Permalink