Are You Ready for ‘Intelligent’ Kitchen Cabinets?

I’m sorry… but that is just absolute height of laziness if you can’t open or close a cabint door. Fingerprint biometric security? This is a kitchen, not a pharmacy.

I agree with AVguy. Indoor lighting & plumbing are more examples of humanities laziness. Do your reading during the day and dig a hole when ya gotta go.

Whats with the dark cabinets all the way to the ceiling? I bet it feels like a cave in there.

I’m not one for automating something just for the sake of automating, but I think this is AWESOME!

When a cabinet door is swung open, it is blocking access to the cabinet from one side, and possibly interfering with other nearby cabinet doors and drawers. Non swing open cabinets like this seem to be a more efficient use of space.

My wife would LOVE if she could have all cabinets open while cooking, but the swing open doors take up to much space and block access. I’ve seen vertically hinged cabinets but they did not compare to this.

My wife cooks constantly so several times a week I need to wipe down all the cabinets around the handles, food gets all over the place. If there were an automated or motion sensor opening, no need to put your hands on the actual cabinet (potentially spreading bacteria, salmonella, but that argument is a stretch)

If they incorporated some kind of parental lock to prevents kids from opening cabinets and drawers that would be a plus as well. Perhaps the liqueur cabinet could be password protected.

I’m not saying this is the greatest thing ever, just that if you’re going to automate something, why not do it in the busiest room in the house?

Wow those things are ugly. The way the doors open and close looks like a blast shield from a sci-fi movie.

As sanfran… said, I’m sure for someone who cooks a lot it would be great to have all the doors open at once, but
motorized stuff is only cool until it breaks, then it’s just a pain in the butt because you can’t get into your cool biometrically-secure medicine cabinet.

I suppose I could fake a power outage if I didn’t feel like cooking one night. I’d love to make dinner hunny but the power is out and the cabinets won’t open. I imagine there must be a manual method of opening/closing.

jbrown just sparked an idea.. forget about the kitchen.. lets put automated doors on the cabinetry in the garage!

HECK YEAH! If they were finished in stainless steel instead, they would look totally bad-ass.

And then if they broke, we wouldn’t be able to get to the tools necessary to fix them, so not only would we not have to repair the cabinets, we wouldn’t have to repair anything else in the house either!

You keep your tools in the garage? Mine have their own room in the house.

LOL! Sanfran, I like the way you think! Power outage = night on the town—but I’ve seen these in the showroom and they CAN be opened manually. And they can even be done in stainless steel (which I would LOVE—all the joy of stainless without ever having to clean up fingerprints! A girl’s dream come true.).