Aunt Beru gets even less screen time than Uncle Owen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but all geeks remember her funky kitchen. Clean, space age appliances that made cool whirring noises and showed quite the contrast to the outside of their home that looked like some dusty ant hills in the desert. Their kitchen looked like IKEA and a geek had a baby.
A couple of Dutch designers, Nils Chudy and Jasmina Grase, are about to bring us a bit closer to that reality – albeit without the blue milk or subsequent destruction by Imperial troops. Chudy and Grase present us with a problem we didn’t realize we had, and give us a super cool solution we want – and we want it now! We are using too much time and energy heating up a kettle of water for our hot tea. These out of the box thinkers came up with a way to pull of induction even in your favorite ceramic or glass mug – by using a metal piston of sorts that does the work for you. Just heat the water you need, not a whole pot full. It’s quicker and doesn’t waste all the energy you could be expending lighting the streets of London. 🙂
This is apparently what happens when you boil an entire kettle of water instead of using Induction – like they do in the MIITO.
Their Kickstarter project, the MIITO, still has a couple of weeks left until the campaign is over – so you can back them now or order later… but it’s clear that they have already exceeded their funding goal by over a quarter of a million dollars as of me typing this out. So far, backers have pledged $402,533 of their $167,383 goal. It has been my experience with Kickstarter that you want to back early – you get one of the first shipments after they’re made and you’re not waiting for them to fulfill other orders before they get to yours.
