This multifunctional smart cooker turns you into a kitchen wiz with ease

Food is one of the most important needs of humans, and eating can be a very enjoyable experience. Cooking, however, isn’t something a lot of people look forward to because of all the work involved, from preparing to cleaning up. We do have smarter kitchen appliances today, but most of those just take care of the cooking part. There are just so many things to juggle, from weighing containers to different processes to multiple cooking appliances for each one. It can be a veritable mess on your kitchen countertop, which can take the joy out of cooking delicious, healthy meals. What if you can reduce all those to just one or two, especially ones that can be smarter and safer than any other in the market? That’s what the dynamic duo of CookingPal Pronto and Alto bring to your table, or rather your kitchen, to make preparing and cooking easy as pie.

Designers: Lars Junker & Mark Fung

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There is no shortage of pressure cookers in the market these days, some of them boasting a few Internet-connected, mobile-controlled smarts. Pronto, however, easily stands above the rest, and not just because it can Slow Cook, Pressure Cook, Sauté, Steam, Ferment, Keep Warm, or even Sterilize. It also has a built-in kitchen scale, so you don’t have to use separate containers just to weigh ingredients. That’s eight functions in one, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

A Smarter Way to Pressure Cook – Cook smarter with Pronto’s color screen and their clean & intuitive mobile app.

Precise and Smart Built-in Scale – Save time and reduce dirty dishes with Pronto’s smart built-in scale. Leave the slow mechanical kitchen scales in the past.

Automatic Pressure Release – Enjoy Pronto’s gentle automatic pressure release system with safety sensors and steam diffuser cap for maximum peace of mind.

Pronto isn’t just designed for convenience; it’s also designed for your safety. A hands-free pressure release makes short work of one of the scariest parts of pressure cooking, while heat-resistant easy-grip bowl handles bid farewell to burned fingers. In the same spirit of saving space, the hinged lid makes sure you have one less thing to keep track of and one less thing to take up space on your countertop. Plus, it has a built-in drip tray, so you don’t have to worry about the mess from the accumulated water, either.

Clutter-free Lid – Pronto’s hinged lid stays put as soon as you open it, and let the drip tray catch all the water.

Replace Multiple Appliances – Replace multiple appliances with Pronto and Alto’s combined 8-in-one multifunctionality for a cleaner, tidier kitchen.

One of the most popular trends for healthy cooking lately is an air fryer, and Alto brings that function to your kitchen without taking up additional space. It functions as a lid that can sit on top of most 6QT pressure cookers, such as the Cooking Pal Pronto, for example, removing the need to make room for yet another bulky cooking appliance. Alto can Air-Fry, Roast, Bake, and even Grill, with less unhealthy oil and consuming less power than a conventional air fryer.

Of course, both Pronto and Alto are smart appliances, but not just because they can be remotely controlled with a smartphone. The intuitive mobile app is a portal to all your cooking needs, from step-by-step recipes, nutritional information, and even free cooking classes with an in-house chef. And it doesn’t stop there, either, with more features coming, including a shopping list manager and user-generated recipes. It is your literal cooking pal for tastier and healthier dishes all year round. And for a Trailblazer promo price of $259 only, the unbeatable tag team of the CookingPal Pronto and Alto will bring not only convenience and safety but also fun to your kitchen life.

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This humidifier concept will make you feel like you’re using a pressure cooker

Temperature isn’t the only factor that affects the comfort of a room. Oftentimes, the humidity or lack of it can either give relief or aggravate certain conditions, especially for those with skin or respiratory issues. Dry air in a room or house, for example, can cause dryness in the skin, nose, or throat and may even cause symptoms that lead to flu and colds. Humidifiers have become more common in the past years due to increased awareness of these environmental factors to our health, but their designs have mostly remained the same. Common humidifier designs are utilitarian and uninspiring, easily sticking out like a sore thumb. This design concept, on the other hand, tries to offer not only a familiar face but also a familiar mode of operation that is as simple as cooking rice.

Designer: Gahyun Kim

The typical humidifier often comes in the form of some large can that you put on top of a table, though some recent designs have gotten a bit more creative in adopting spherical or teardrop shapes. They really don’t make any effort to blend with the rest of their surroundings, though that does have the advantage of making it clear what their purpose is. More importantly, however, all of these are designed to spray humidified air in only one direction, which is usually upward. This design simply relies on natural air to spread the humidity across the room, which doesn’t always work as intended.

SOT is a humidifier that implements a directional spray in a rather curious and almost whimsical way. In a nutshell, it still sprays humidity upward, but you can rotate and turn the nozzle in a certain direction so that it will let the steam out at a certain angle. It doesn’t rotate automatically, leaving the owner free to direct the output wherever they want.

What makes SOT really special, however, is its design and the source of that design’s inspiration: a pressure cooker. Both appliances do make use of water and let out steam, though for different purposes. More than just the similarity in process, though, SOT brings a sense of familiarity and comfort in seeing a product that they already know how to operate. It isn’t by coincidence that you use this humidifier exactly like you would a rice or pressure cooker.

To get started, you simply lift the lid off the pot and then pour the desired amount of water. Instead of simply placing that lid back down again, you give it a slight twist to turn it on. It doesn’t really get simpler than that, and it’s a series of steps that many people, especially in Asia, would be familiar with.

SOT’s exterior also brings that sense of familiarity and confidence by mimicking the appearance and texture of popular household objects. Its matte surface gives a sense of warmth to the touch, while the glossy edges make it look like a ceramic pot. Rather than have an eye-catching but incongruent object in your view, this humidifier design concept brings a comforting and familiar face to your living space while also giving you more freedom in what direction you want it to spray its humidifying vapors.

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This humidifier concept will make you feel like you’re using a pressure cooker

Temperature isn’t the only factor that affects the comfort of a room. Oftentimes, the humidity or lack of it can either give relief or aggravate certain conditions, especially for those with skin or respiratory issues. Dry air in a room or house, for example, can cause dryness in the skin, nose, or throat and may even cause symptoms that lead to flu and colds. Humidifiers have become more common in the past years due to increased awareness of these environmental factors to our health, but their designs have mostly remained the same. Common humidifier designs are utilitarian and uninspiring, easily sticking out like a sore thumb. This design concept, on the other hand, tries to offer not only a familiar face but also a familiar mode of operation that is as simple as cooking rice.

Designer: Gahyun Kim

The typical humidifier often comes in the form of some large can that you put on top of a table, though some recent designs have gotten a bit more creative in adopting spherical or teardrop shapes. They really don’t make any effort to blend with the rest of their surroundings, though that does have the advantage of making it clear what their purpose is. More importantly, however, all of these are designed to spray humidified air in only one direction, which is usually upward. This design simply relies on natural air to spread the humidity across the room, which doesn’t always work as intended.

SOT is a humidifier that implements a directional spray in a rather curious and almost whimsical way. In a nutshell, it still sprays humidity upward, but you can rotate and turn the nozzle in a certain direction so that it will let the steam out at a certain angle. It doesn’t rotate automatically, leaving the owner free to direct the output wherever they want.

What makes SOT really special, however, is its design and the source of that design’s inspiration: a pressure cooker. Both appliances do make use of water and let out steam, though for different purposes. More than just the similarity in process, though, SOT brings a sense of familiarity and comfort in seeing a product that they already know how to operate. It isn’t by coincidence that you use this humidifier exactly like you would a rice or pressure cooker.

To get started, you simply lift the lid off the pot and then pour the desired amount of water. Instead of simply placing that lid back down again, you give it a slight twist to turn it on. It doesn’t really get simpler than that, and it’s a series of steps that many people, especially in Asia, would be familiar with.

SOT’s exterior also brings that sense of familiarity and confidence by mimicking the appearance and texture of popular household objects. Its matte surface gives a sense of warmth to the touch, while the glossy edges make it look like a ceramic pot. Rather than have an eye-catching but incongruent object in your view, this humidifier design concept brings a comforting and familiar face to your living space while also giving you more freedom in what direction you want it to spray its humidifying vapors.

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This AI-enabled cooker preps meals, cooks and even cleans itself!

You could be a trained chef or a foodie trying to recreate a dish they had, we can all do better with an extra helping hand – especially in the kitchen! Say hello to CookingPal Julia, the smart all-in-one cooker that is going to be your new sous chef. Julia was unveiled at CES 2020 where she also won the Innovation Award in the home appliance category and we were all shook…or shall I say shaken and stirred?

It will be impossible to mess up a recipe with this Smart All-in-One Cooker, it is a countertop assistant that will assist you in preparing your meals quickly and efficiently. There is a step-by-step process and Julia is going to be there all along to guide you through chopping ingredients with exact, weight-based measurements. To make it easier, it also includes a scale that is accurate within five grams so say goodbye to fiddling with that set of measuring cups! Julia is truly a countertop kitchen assistant, she can cook, chop, blend, knead, boil, steam, grind, grate AND emulsify – she knows it all and does it all but you still get the credit.

Your cooking sidekick comes with her own 8-inch kitchen-proof smart display. You can select from one of the set recipes or switch to manual mode and customize it to your taste, the AI food recognition technology can also suggest recipes based on the ingredients you have in the fridge. You can also recruit Alexa or Google assistant into the kitchen team and have them work with Julia while you monitor it all on the CookingPal mobile app. Just when you think Julia cant be smarter, you’ll be delighted to know she is not only dishwasher safe but also has a self-cleaning mode where you just add in water and dish soap. Julia is spearheading the future of smart cooking!

Designer: CookingPal

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Modular Cooktop

CookPlat is conceived as a portable Pyrex vitroceramic cooker that uses magnetic induction technology. Designed to be modular, this cooker can be transported and used in just about any environment. Since it is a vitroceramic hob, the cooker directly heats up the utensil via a magnetic field and doesn’t use heating resistors (radiant heat).

For a layperson this means efficient cooking via less energy loss. Some of the key features include being dishwasher safe, outdoor compatible, configurable modules, and the ‘capacitance touch switch’ has a longer lifetime than ordinary switches.

CookPlat is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Best of Best winner.

Designers: Jokin Arregui & Monse Garcia for SeriesNemo

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Cook Like A Fakir

The Yacht uses the principle of electro-magnetic induction as maglev feature for automatic cooking. Presently, the induction cooker uses magnetic field to heat pots containing iron. Adding the maglev feature (departure mode), this new concept levitates a pot using magnetic force. Awesome! Just like a levitating fakir!

Designer: Lee Dawi

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