Laptop, meet the cookbook. We saw the Kitchen Sync design concept several weeks ago, and we were surprised and happy to meet its designer, Noah Balmer, at the Housewares Show. Balmer received an International Housewares Association design award for the Kitchen Sync, which we hope goes into production soon.
The concept for the Kitchen Sync is quite simple, and brilliant. It's a new generation of cookbook for your kitchen - the perfect melding of the recipes you can find online and the old-fashioned cookbooks that sit on your kitchen shelves. Read on to see how it works - lots more photos below...
As much as we love our tattered and spattered 
Balmer's concept invents a whole new kitchen appliance - a small, flexible, washable screen with a dock. You can download recipes directly and follow links to buy necessary products and see tips online. The Kitchen Sync brings new web recipes together with the old-fashioned coobook, with no need for laborious printing or sticky laptop screens and keyboards. 
This is still a concept, but as it won a prestigious design award already and Balmer is interning for Karim Rashid this spring, we hope that some affordable version of this goes into production soon. Good luck Noah! 
Oh my god, this is just what I need. (Why didn't I think of this first!!!)
raspberry eggplant
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This is a great idea, finally my husband will stop stealing my laptop to act as his cookbook!
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When can I get one?! That picture of the laptop with the measuring cup on top is a common sight in my house.
view Niamh's profile
that is seriously genius. i want one.
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WOW I SO need one of these!! Though since I don't have a laptop I'm one of those cooks who have to run back and forth between the kitchen and my desktop computer! (only 10 feet away but still a nuisance).
Hmmm I just showed this to the BF and he said, he would rig a 15inch monitor in the kitchen and set my computer for dual monitor set up. Not a bad idea! That may hold me over until this product comes out! haha
view Lizz's profile
That's brilliant. I'm not normally a gadget kind of person, but I'm always so paranoid about bringing my macbook into the kitchen, and I hate wasting paper to print out recipes.
view Leslie in Portland's profile
Sign me up too! I hope that goes into production soon, and with a good price! I'd sure love to be a beta tester for that! Ingenious!
view bobcatsteph3's profile
I dream of a tool like this: small enough and waterproof. I hope it does not take too long to evolve from a concept to the store shelf.
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RAD. I want one. Is there a waiting list?
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Sure, it looks cool. But for some reason I prefer old fashioned printed cookbooks.
view Drew Kime's profile
Brilliant idea, I can imagine lots of cookery books becoming available online for download. I just hope it’s light enough that I wont drop it. I’m so clumsy I once dropped a cookery book on my oven and broke one of the hobs, it took ages to find the sears parts to fix it.
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