Jun 15 2010But It Looks So Cool!: The Fridge Of The Future, Today Tomorrow Probably Never

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Looks cool. Get it? Refrigerator joke! Anyway, this is Yuriy Dmitriev's conceptual fridge of the future. OMG it's made out of Slimer.

So, what is that stuff? The Electrolux blog -- which lists Dmitriev's concept as one of 25 semifinalists for this year's Electrolux Design Lab contest -- describes it as a "biopolymer gel," or more specifically a "non-sticky, odorless gel." You simply plunge whatever you want to keep fresh into the mass of your Bio Robot fridge and it'll stay where you left it until you come back.

I, for one, am all for it (minus the name). And not just because I want to mush my penis in there and pretend I'm makin' love to the Ice Queen, but you know I'm gonna. And she better not burn my hotdog the way she does the ice cream.

Hit the jump for one more shot explaining the thing.

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In the future, refrigerators will store food in gross-looking gel [dvice]

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Hah! you shouldnt put your bananas in teh fridge >.<

Looks like a giant nook!

I WIN

nope... there's definitely not enough room for the amount of beer I keep in the fridge

I wanna dip my BALLS in it.... or somethin

Not enough room for my dick.

Finally a place to store Han Solo propery.

wow. thats awesome!!!!!!!! i want one! now!!!

I'd be too tempted to want to make babies with it, and no one wants extra relish on their leftovers.

I would fuck it. I would probably get an ice-hard on.

And what about ice?

I'm with anyone who'd stick their junk in there. That has to be the reason why he made that gel 'not sticky and has no smell'

Did GW and a few other mad commenters above just admit to wanting to put their junk in something that is described as a "Bio ROBOT fridge".
because i for one wont, i just know it wont end well

i think all these Japanese robot posts are giving people bad ideas..

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Where are lonely old women supposed to put their cats when they die???

I still maintain the real GW is on vacation

So now my dogs can take my food out of my fridge when they please.

Freakin' sweet.

I would put myself in that and pretend I am a female Han Solo!....hmmm....

I'd have girlfriends make boobie impressions in it

@17 -- are you retarded? you're not a f*cking detective, this is classic GW.

chances are your cheesy ass has only been reading on and off for a couple months and you have no concept of the "real" GW.

get a hobby.

I'd be too worried about a toddler wandering into it and not being able to get out, or eating the stuff...

Sort of hard to hide dead Hooker parts in.

I can see my cat getting stuck in there now...

Wait a minute, after you stick something in there (i.e. a microwave dinner) and remove it, won't there be a giant hole in the gel? Or does it fill back in someone?

Also, what about freezers?

I usually don't like blogs. But, the author's paragraph after the quote made me laugh harder than any other blog I've ever read.

"non-sticky, odorless gel."

Not for long. That concept image has a fish in it. No way it will resist smell. The fish particles will be trapped in there. Scales and stuff. I guarantee that will not stay fresh all snug in that gel after 4 months.

Looks like a giant fly trap. They should make something like this but for fat people.

This is a terrible idea. As mentioned already what about food residue, and imagine trying to clean rotten food juice out of that thing. You forget a tomato in that thing and come back to a mass of rotten slime encased in there.

BIOgel anything that gets old/spilled/left behind gets eaten by the fridge, duh. :P

FIRST!

This isn't much of a fridge, since it doesn't actually refrigerate, just prevents food from reaching the ambient temperature through a passive process.

It's like calling an "ice chest" a refrigerator. An ice-chest filled with alien sex-goo. As in my fantasy.

That's the WORST idea ever. I mean, the slime would get on the food when you pull it out to eat it, you'd have to wash it off everytime. What about milk cartons and the like, having to fleck off gel when you pull it out? Even to open a soda you'd have to rinse it off, get the residual gel off an then pop the top.

Then yes, the bad food, the fish odors, ALL the food odors. Did this guy get paid for this concept?

wouldn't gel residue come off the thing when you pull something out of it? even though its not sticky one would think it would right??

@32

Did you not read the article? It said it's a "non-sticky gel."
I think that means it doesn't stick to the food...but you know I could be off my rocker.

No one mentioned Flubber yet?

Flubber Flubber Flubber Flubber Flubber Flubber Flubber Flubber Flubber.

i though this idea was freaking sweet, until GW reminded that boys will be perverts and stick it in there... I'll *stick* to the old fridge, thanks. lol geit?

So, the gel eats Biomass, hmm? nice, so you forget some leftovers in there it get "digested"? And yeah, I don't care how non-sticky it is, it's gonna have pet hair and stuff all over it!

id bone that fridge

What if something spills, i bet its impossible to clean!@

olololol pretty awesome, if this fridge works i want one

I think it looks not so professional – Well I like it because it's pleasant and remind me of FUTURE DESTRUCTION - lol - , yet still keep that business edge to it. I would appreciate to see more of your collected works here :)

what if you put lime flavored Jello in there ? Does it come vagina shaped ?? I would probly drown in it

not to mention
How do you store leftovers in a fridge like that? It doesn't look like I could fit a proper plate of food in there.

Raw meat?
Wouldn't that infest the rest of my food with salmonella.

nothnx.

I like the idea of being able to throw shit from across the room into the fridge, kinda like playing darts. Or maybe you could throw real darts into this fridge and try to hit food. BULLS EYE! Note to self, don't aim for Cindy (she's my blow up doll and I like her inflated and chilled).

yeah... what about leftovers? this is only good for fruits and other solid foods..

Put your leftovers in a zip lock bag or in a plastic container. End of story.

I don't want to be swiping off green gloop from my bee....soda cans.

I'm gonna go way out on a limb and say this "bio-polymer gel" doesn't yet exist, and probably won't ever exist. I think for the goo to be self supporting, it would be too rigid to thrust things into, like your junk.

but what happens when the gel gets dirty? how do you clean it?

@32. Gel & non-sticky. Hmmm. I don't see how can be completely non sticky and still encase the food in any sort of preservative way that would be needed without refrigeration. But then again...this doesn't exist yet probably because it's impossible.

Hair, dirt, spills, leaks, rotting food, accidents, kid's being the tiny JackAss stunt magnets like they are attempting to encase and thus killing their friends in it..etc etc. Bugs like ants or *throws up* cockroaches...what happens if they were to walk on it? Sorry but reality makes this one of the grossest concepts ever.

I love this refrigerator, but only because it reminds me of a giant vat of lime jello NUMMMMM.

I want one so bad. that thing looks so cool

If this never makes it into the mainstream fridge units, it's gonna appear in miniature versions at the sperm bank.

How does the gel not fall out that thing? Wouldn't it lose a lot of energy in cooling if it is that open? Nice concept, but that's all it will be probably for a looong time.

This may be a silly question, but how do you clean it? I mean really, meat packages, milk jugs, and various other foodstuffs all leak (not to mention the mess after someone literally makes love to it, which you know some poor horny schlub will be drunk enough to do some night). So how do you clean it?

I think it looks kind of cool. I mean, you actually wouldn't have to clean it or anything. The gel has a massive surface tension so the food just floats inside the pod. If something went all gross, you could just grab it with a rubber glove on and chuck in the bin, much easier than a normal fridge. I would be worried about various pets eating the food and/or getting their heads stuck inside it though.

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