Oct 1 2008Flatshare Refrigerator Keeps Your No Good Thieving Roommates Out Of Your Food
Not really, it just separates everyone's food so it doesn't get mixed up. The Flatshare is a finalist in the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition and is the brainchild of Austrian design student Stefan Buchberger, who has obviously had it up to here with getting his freaking Eggos stolen. The unit consists of a base on which you can stack four separate refrigerator/freezer modules. Neat concept, but pretty worthless in real-world application. This won't stop a roommate from stealing your cold cuts, trust me. But you know what will? Poison. Haha, I poured rat killer in the OJ. I think it worked too, because I haven't heard a peep from the loud bastard in a few hours. I'll go check on him just as soon as I finish this screwdrive....oh Jesus -- quick, somebody call poison cont
Flatshare Fridge Separates Your Roommate's Rotten Food From Yours [gizmodo]
Thanks to Sophia, who agrees it's a sin punishable by pissing on their clean clothes pile to steal a roommate's last pudding pack.
Reader Comments
1. you know who - October 1, 2008 3:10 PM
eat me first
2. Thumperchica - October 1, 2008 3:12 PM
Welcome Back GW - we missed your sense of humor around here!
3. Michael Bolton - October 1, 2008 3:19 PM
So everyone buys their own mini fridge and stacks them? I mean, anyone could do that since they are square, and there's no padlock or anything. Wouldn't it make more sense to sell one unit that has seperate doors so you aren't running 4 small fridges?
Sorry, but I call fail.
4. you know who - October 1, 2008 3:21 PM
perfect for Midgets and dwarves 2 corn sticks up
5. Book - October 1, 2008 3:35 PM
MB... youve never had a run of shiteous roomates youve had to burn through in a hurry have you? lol the stackable indavidual fridges would be awesome like that, and i want one. stacking 4 regular mini-fridges would suck something fierce, and cost a heck of a lot more in energy. if you're worried about security, just bolt some hinges and a lock to it.
6. Momboelitist - October 1, 2008 3:48 PM
@5, tell me how you know what the energy consumption is going to be on each style?
Also, I saw this 2 weeks ago on another site and commented the same as #3. If the gimmick is individuality and security of your food then it makes no sense to not come with a locking system in place.
7. David - October 1, 2008 3:55 PM
Not much good without locks, is it?
8. LSDiesel - October 1, 2008 4:00 PM
Yeah. Just because her underpants and my underpants are in different drawyers doesn't stop me from wearing hers every once in a while.
9. Douchie Mc Bagman - October 1, 2008 4:38 PM
But the fact that she's 700 lbs and they fall off when you stand up does.
10. LSDiesel - October 1, 2008 4:43 PM
No, I'm 700 lbs. too. When we have sex, people die.
11. Thumperchica - October 1, 2008 4:45 PM
@LS - Hey roomie, how's it going today? I had to get a fork-lift with a specially modded spatula attachment to clean the flattened body off of your bed today... be more careful next time would ya? I had a fish on the line and he FREAKED when he saw that - I think the Mammary Madness wore off...
12. Jo Mama - October 1, 2008 4:48 PM
@8 You win the day sir. But no seriously this thing has some merit to it. This way, you can segregate all of your black roomies bananas and grape drink into one fridge and lock.hide the KFC in another. (Too soon?)
13. Thumperchica - October 1, 2008 4:57 PM
@12 - you forgot about the Newports...
14. Miles - October 1, 2008 5:22 PM
Not very timely but still an interesting concept... except... Does each person buy their own module? And what if I had the yellow module and moved out on my own. How the hell could I still use it... or could I?
15. Miles - October 1, 2008 5:23 PM
Wait- do you just flip it over? Can fridges work flipped upside down?
16. chimp - October 1, 2008 5:38 PM
I know a guy who wanked off into his own milk, after his flatmate in uni halls wouldn't stop drinking it. he didn't spank the monkey for a week to build ammunition. and yes, the flatmate did drink it.
true story.
17. The Fonz - October 1, 2008 5:45 PM
@16... not a post-worthy story, and totally unbelievable. unless you have pics of me.. uhh him, drinking the, um milk and stuff.
18. LSDiesel - October 1, 2008 6:34 PM
I don't know if I could go for more than an hour without choking the chicken
19. assbastard - October 2, 2008 5:38 AM
@15
An upside down fridge heats things up, dumbass!
20. Book - October 2, 2008 7:26 AM
@5: i imagine the powe consumption to be somewhat less than a bunch of mini-fridges stacked on top of each other for a number of reasons. the comparative small size of each compartment, the fact that you only have to open one compartment at a time, thus not losing cooling from the entire unit, and its probably being made to green hippy standards, because they're the most likely to buy it! except for me... im not a green hippy and i still want one.
21. Jo Mama - October 2, 2008 11:29 AM
I'm more of a blue hippy myself...
22. louis vuitton - September 28, 2009 9:35 AM
Yeah. Just because her underpants and my underpants are in different drawyers doesn't stop me from wearing hers every once in a while.