Electrolux Design Lab 2009 competition

The Electrolux Design Lab is an annual global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate industrial design students who are invited to present innovative ideas for household appliances of the future. This year the special focus was on appliances that will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes over the next nine decades. Rickard Hederstierna of Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden won 5,000 Euro and a six-month paid internship at one of the Electrolux global design centers by banging the first spot. His creation called the ‘Cocoon’ is a sustainable response to the world’s growing population and its desire to consume meat and fish. The device uses heated muscle cells that are identified by radio frequency identification (RFID) signals to prepares genetically engineered and pre-packaged meat and fish dishes. The signals detect the specific dish and then suggest the required cooking time.