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January 18, 2005
Fridgy
This small, light, soft, folding portable refrigerator was designed by Yonatan Sadowsky.
Its aim?
"To break the 'refrigeratorness' of the common refrigerator, to deconstruct that old heavy square we all know so well while giving it more character."
The soft insulating cover is a double layer of non-absorbent fabric filled with polyester fibers.
The cover has a door with a zipper.
"Its cooling mechanism uses thermo-electric technology based on the Peltier effect."
A bookofjoe 2005 Design Award winner.
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot: Claes Oldenburg, call your office: your fridge is here.
[via BW and designboom.com]
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And I'd hate to think what your average family dog would do to this in pursuit of the steaks.
Posted by: Natalie | Jan 18, 2005 9:09:46 PM
Peltier devices are nifty in theory but are so inefficient currently that it will be some time before something like this is practical. It's important to note that the device lowers the temperature of something, but does not actually remove the energy, like a carnot cycle would. The heat still has to be dumped, by convection (fan) or conduction (thermal mass) in order for the device to work. Since the device is inefficient, the total amount of heat energy that has to be removed is significant.
Also, to remove the energy from the inside of the fridge here, there needs to be some sort of convection and a fin system to provide enough surface area to transfer the heat across. Thermal designers are often presented with peltier devices as this magic doohickey that will make warm things cool, but there are compounding factors that limit their praticality.
It is a cool (ha, pun) looking idea though.
Posted by: jonah | Jan 18, 2005 6:03:55 PM
