Kitchen interface concept and a modern reinterpretation.
We designed a device you would call a tablet without hesitating today: conceived flat, held in the hand, though still heavy at the time. A study, for which we built a number of mock-ups.
The questions. A kitchen holds many appliances, and none of them tells you what it is doing. How much energy are they using? How much longer will they run? And the most practical question of all: when will my oven reach the temperature I set, and in how many minutes, so I can plan my time around it?
The ideas. The status picture quickly grew into more. If a device in the kitchen has a screen and a connection anyway, why are the recipes not on it? Much of that stayed unvisualised in 2002; we wrote it down all the same, and a good part of it is taken for granted today.
The project was product innovation, product development and product design in the classical sense all at once, and that is exactly why it has stayed with me. The questions from back then were never solved, they simply got better hardware. I later rethought the design with the means that were missing in 2002. You can see that in the project.