21 February 2007
What’s so special about a microwave with a chicken on top? It’s only that the microwave has a TV built into the door! You heard me. Marcel Wanders, super designer and beloved by all turtleneck wearers, has teamed up with HE, an aged appliance company in need of super designers, to create a line of products that are affordable, clever, and beautiful. There are a number of products I will feature from this new line, but the TV/Microwave is my favorite for its usefulness. You see, I like to cook. I also like to watch TV… and heck, our kitchen is pretty small, so I can’t put a TV on the kitchen counter somewhere. Boom! Marcel Wanders solves this problem. It also comes equipped with a DVD, if so desired. Unfortunately, I’m thinking that this product would never sell in America. The sizes of homes in the US, except for a couple of select urban areas, are immense. I haven’t been to a middle-America suburb in a long while, but I bet if I were to take a random cross section of homes in one of those mini-mansion neighborhoods, I would find that most kitchens already have two televisions, and not in the need of a wimpy little microwave TV.
Object: Wave TV
Designer: Marcel Wanders
Manufacturer: HE
Price: $800+/-
Lust Factor: Hot
Categories: $500-1,000 | Consumer Technology | Lust Factor: Hot
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March 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
[...] There are a bunch of products I’ve featured by Marcel Wanders in the past. There’s the Microwave with the TV in the door. Then there was the City System Shelving for Mooi. All, beautiful stuff. But this is the first design that I could actually use in my home and could afford to buy. Well what is it, you ask. It’s hard to tell from the pictures, I know. It’s a kick ass stereo system designed for Holland Electro! The sub-woofer is called Pandora. Maybe because it’s in a box? The sub-woofer doubles as a side table and is accompanied by two “Eggs”, as HE calls them, which are remote speakers which receive their signal via Bluetooth. No more messy wires for that stereo. Because of it’s compact and subtle design, this would seem to be the perfect gift for the zen minimalist who likes to rock out. [...]