Iron induction adapter

With more available solar energy more and more induction cookers will find the place in the kitchen (they are much more efficient than heating spiral one). One of the problems - cooking only in iron pot. There are some external adapters like this (between the pot and cooker).

My simple idea is to have not external but internal iron adapter. It should have fan like shape to increase the contact surface and create slow spin in liquid. If not mistaken such adaptor would allow to cook in glass pot a bit faster than in iron one (due to larger contact area and convection facilitation). 

The smaller adaprors could be used even for tee 

Update: as always better research show that simple ideas should already be on the market. Accidently found:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/747044530/miito-the-sustainable-alternative-to-the-electric

 http://miito.de/#section-usp

The cons of their product buy extra induction heater,  no automatic switch off (probably).   

Soup magnetic stirrer

Looking for an automatic stirrer I found some existing examples:

With them you can't use a lid, they are massive and not easy to wash.  So my proposal is to create something we could see in chemistry -  magnetic stirrer:

Instead of stir bar the stir circle is used to increase the tork and to ease for magnet to reach the bottom place in a soup.
If it creates enough of speed and tork (I think so) sharp blades could make a blender in a pot. If so it would be even better than in my previous idea with a microvawe blender.

Benefits - tiny, easy to wash, stir or blend.  Cons - may not work with iron pot.

Microwave blender

Mixing several kitchen appliances sometimes make sense. For instance with heating blander it is much easier to cook mash soups and for sucklings.   Like this example Zauber ECO-580

But I found it a bit inconvenient to keep such a big extra machine in the kitchen.

So my offer it to use microwaves instead of heating spirals and put the motor to microwave itself:

The plate has a hole where we insert the cogwheel from the blanding container. The second more powerful motor shouldn't enlarge microwave oven too much, besides with some basic CVT (Continuously variable transmission) the second motor could be excluded.

Bins - plastic cup and so on

The common bin is not a space saver for plastic cups I suggested but then checked and here we are (just not so many know, including me).

 

There is non much to improve, I would probably add some hinge like handle and curved a side wall to get rid of the liquids... 

Speacking of bins usually they have tiny cover so if we want to put a plastic bag it is normally seen from the side. Just add some hight to the cap (with internal wall up to the top) to have enough space to cover the bag. 

If we have an internal bucket the two hinged handles with clips will do the same job.

Oscillating clothes rope

Of course,  dryer, open yard solve the wet clothes, but  in flat living people still dry on a rope ofthen somewhere inside of a building.
So to make the drying faster the wind is much better, if you don't have it (even in a yard) - create it by shaking the rope itself.  Accelerometer plus computer will controll the resonance to optimaze the flow.

   The other side could have the same part, one rope is a sincronisation cable....

The other simple home clothes dryers could also be made shaking (like a cradle).

Smart TV Set

Amount of clicks does matter. Even thought there are separate single solutions for quite a while on the market I couldn't find 3 in one product (probably except of the expensive smart home solutions):  1 Smart TV + 2 Skype-Sip calling + 3 TV/desktop/nettop

 


I bet not many homes have any SIP-IP phones (yet they probably 10 years on the market), skype is ok - but you need to turn a comp...
So my solution is to have a Smart TV - nettop like specs with camera mic and always on applications. It should be paired with wireless universal infrared control and mouse keyboard and TV.

1 The comp is always on. When you got a call (either sip, or skype) your smart tv box is ringing, you take a remote control with mic and speaker (like a phone) and TV box send recorded IR signal to TV to turn on switch to HDMI, and start conversation. As you see the Comp not TV is the main product (it can turn on, switch, put picture in picture... depends on the TV itself) - TV is just a monitor (and comp is better to be separate product - it is developing faster than TVs).

2 The comp is always on. you want to check email turn a special key on keyboard and you in desktop mode (your proper remote laptop or TV built in nettop).




   

hinge sink

Looking for a caravan top plan (or any compact places), I thought a hinge sink could be a good space solution.  A pedal like mechanizm could lift up /down the sink. All the bending pipes already on the market.  

Hybrid Tank-Tankless Water Electric Heater

Thinking of optimizing consumer properties of electric water heaters I found some gas hybrid heaters, but no electric.

The Rinnai RH180  http://www.rinnai.us/hybrid-tank-tankless-water-heater/how-it-works
And more interesting  Grand Hall's Eternal Hybrid - which uses infrared heating and mixing electric valves

https://www2.buildinggreen.com/blogs/hybrid-water-heaters

The problem of the common tank electric heaters that water cools down when tank is near to empty: spiral heat all new coming water and usually too weak to heat it all quickly, besides spiral most probably is turning on after some hot water gone from the tank. 

The tankless heaters usually can provide only limited flow of water. 

My offer is to combine two chambers with electric valves 

Controller may actively direct the supply of hot water. From start from heater + tank, when tank is empty there could be some alarm and flow reduction to usual thankless mode (less hot water, but predictable constant proportion.  When tap is closed it full in the tank...  To keep it hot the extra loop to heater chamber could be added.

Even more add cold water mixture under computer control and precise temperature will be in outflow (the flow - not temperature will decrease when tank is empty).  

Instead of traditional electric spiral heating element (which rust and decrease efficiency) the modified magnetron could be used (like in microwave oven).