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Whirlpool's Espresso Refrigerator Makes Your Coffee, Stops Childhood Obesity

It may be a bit too early for freshly drafted beer from a HomePub fridge, but it is never too early for caffeine. Thanks to Whirlpool's Espresso refrigerator, you can now get your xanthine alkaloid-based fix any time of the day or night, fresh out of your fridge. The multitasking food cool closet boasts Whirlpool's 6th-sense technology, which means it is a dab hand at keeping food cold as well! Is there anything this device cannot do? More »

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Fab28, Smeg's Hippest Retro Refrigerator is Heading Stateside

After almost a decade of waiting, Smeg's Fab28 fridge is heading our way. It comes in all sorts of colors, and has 9.22 cubic feet of space. Available in the UK as a giant Union Jack, what's the betting that if it's a success, the Fab28 will come in a Stars 'n Stripes version? Full specs below. More »

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USB Mini Fridge Chills Drinks Fast Right at Your Desk

Plug this USB mini fridge into your PC, and Brando says you'll have that drink chilled down to 8.5°C (that's 47°F for us Luddite Americans) after five minutes. Plunk down your $33 and you get this tiny plastic refrigerator that's reminiscent of those old-fashioned Coke machines. Too bad there's not a Coca-Cola logo across the side, but then, that would mean big trouble for Brando. More »

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Craftworks Refrigerator Thinks It's a Toolbox

Okay boozers, here's the beer drinker's equivalent to that stash box that looks like a Windex can. Does this look like a Craftsman toolbox? No one will be the wiser that hidden among all those other toolboxes is a refrigerator where you've stashed a few brewskis or maybe some sandwich fixin's. They'll all be right where you need them after tuning up that hot rod of yours. The 4.4-cubic-foot refrigerator will set you back $350. More »

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Whirlpool Centralpark Connection: Refrigerator as Data Hub, Entertainment Center

Whirlpool wants to make refrigerators even cooler, building its Centralpark port right into the refrigerator door. Centralpark is an interchangeable connection point that'll be a part of a Whirlpool line of connector-enabled refrigerators that let you park and power up a shiny collection of matching devices from Jabil and other partners. More »

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Tree House Refrigerator Design for the Certifiably Insane

This refrigerator design concept is more weird than it is beautiful. Its midsection is like the trunk of a tree, and it has five container/cabinets arrayed around it that resemble tree branches. Push a foot switch and the motorized main section opens. More »

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Electrolux Cyber fridge: Yet Another Solution in Search of a Problem

Here's the next generation of that goofy idea of combining computers and refrigerators, the Electrolux Cyber fridge, whose next-gen innovation is its LCD screen mounted atop the box instead of on the door. Smart thinkin', Electrolux, because now that crowd of people reading email, buying and ordering food and reading Gizmodo in the kitchen won't have their concentration interrupted when you open the door to do something that normal people do in that room: get something out of the refrigerator. More »

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Mini-Fridge Case Mod

This project was completed with a $200 budget and most mini-fridges will run your $100 or less, but this is a nice addition to any geek's setup. Paying two times as much to be two times cooler? I think it is worth it, just imagine how many ladies you could get with this. More »

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Retro-Cool Smeg Refrigerators


If your crib is getting to be a little bit too modern-looking, now it's time to funk it up a bit with some retro-refrigeration. Oddly-named Brit company Smeg is offering these old-fashioned refrigerators with a large selection of colors including those seen above. So if you're looking to sing the praises of the Union Jack or want a refrigerator to match that pink Razr you just picked up, perhaps you've just found something that's chillin enough. More »

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Freedom Fridge

This was never called a French Refrigerator. Thermador used the word "Freedom" to name its just-announced fridge because the fresh food and freezer parts of it can be separated and placed in different parts of your kitchen. Thermadore also introduced the built-in wall oven in the 50s, in case you were curious, so this is yet another first for the appliance company. I do kind of like the idea of it, though I don't know if I'll ever have a kitchen big enough to ponder where to put my freezer versus my fresh food refrigeration units. Each part of the fridge has its own compressor and evaporator that eliminates any odor transfer between the refrigerator and freezer and perfectly regulates the interior temperature with a variance of only 1.5 degrees. Pretty nifty. Comes in stainless steel or can be custom-matched to your existing kitchen cabinets. Alas, these Freedom Refrigerators won't be out until (chuckle) July 4, 2006 and will set you back about $2700-$6700. Also look for a wine chiller in Thermador's Freedom Collection next December. No, I'm not kidding.