I won’t say I’m in favor of what Alan Daly did to his kitchen cabinet, but I promise there are people reading this that will love it. It’s reminiscent of a Tim Allen conversion. As more than three million iPads have been built, it was only a matter of time before someone embedded one in their kitchen cabinets.
What’s great about it, I admit, is that the iPad has the Epicurious.com application installed, which means Daly can stand in his kitchen with immediate access to 28,000 recipes from magazines like Gourmet and Bon Appétit. Here’s how Daly did it: using a replacement door (just in case…) he used a jigsaw to cut the hole and smoothed around the edges with a Dremel tool.
You can view the cabinet iPad at the My Kitchen iPad upload at Flickr. Meanwhile, the project has received viral praise across the Internet. Even Engadget went wild over it, commenting that the cabinet iPad protects the streaming technology of digital recipes from the hazards of spattering tomato sauce.
What’s the Secret of the Cabinet?
I’m curious about how Daly rigged the power source to the iPad. The virtual aquarium screen saver might perk up your kitchen, but is the rear deck strewn with cable? Must he remove the iPad to recharge it and leave an opening fit for a mouse in the cabinet door? Where there’s a will, techies always have a way.
If you haven’t run off and bought an iPad, I suppose you can embed your latest cell phone or, in last resort, a flat touch-screen monitor run through a wireless connection. Let’s not go overboard, people! Wait a year and manufacturers will surely have models for you to buy and install.
