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Cocoon – futuristic cooker that genetically grows meat and fish like popcorn

  • Spence Cooper
  • September 28, 2009
"Cocoon" - winner of Electrolux Desi...
Image by Electrolux Design Lab via Flickr

This years winner of the Electrolux Design Lab competition is the “Cocoon”, a conceptual fish and meat maker by Rickard Hederstierna from Lund Institute of Technology. The Cocoon [see video] prepares genetically engineered and prepackaged meat and fish dishes by heating muscle cells identified by radio frequency identification (RFID) signals. The RFID signals identify the prepackaged dish and then displays the required cooking time.

Rickard Hederstierna will receive a prize of EUR5,000 and a six-month paid internship at a Electrolux global design center. The criteria for this year’s competition was to create products that will model how people may prepare and store food — among other domestic activities — over the next 90 years. Over 900 entries were submitted from students.

Another entry purposed to examine food at a molecular level and is called a Moleculaire. “The device uses a layer by layer molecular ‘printing’ process using particles from a host of diverse ingredients to produce two- and three-dimensional parts of meals.”

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