Goran Bjelajac

Sidecooker cooktop represents another novel approach to the design of cooktops. For the first time, the appliance is wall-mounted like a shelf, made possible by significant changes in the inner structure of the product. This design enables flexible positioning, independent of the working space of the kitchen for which the regular cooktops are attached. However, this is not the only innovation. Two metal plates are also attached to the appliance, which can be positioned over the cooktop in case the cookware is not made of steel (needed for induction process), and then it serves as a standard cooktop. This appliance also has a camera that points towards the meal being cooked, and it projects an image into a display, or by desire, to the Wi-Fi connected TV in your living room. Of course, the cooktop temperature as well as power can be controlled remotely.

1. Camera 2. Metal plates * 3. Cooktop 4. Display * Magnetic induction only works with steel cookware. If you use some other kind of cookware, then you need to put a metal disk on the induction cooktop to create a regular hot plate. With this appliance, you have those disks already there. Just pull one down and you are ready to go.

Cooktop lowering phases

1. Standard induction cooktops have electronic circuits and induction coils positioned just next to the surface. Everything is isolated and packaged into a compact, nice, and elegant box. 2. Sidecooker separates induction coils from electronic circuits, which enables much thinner heating surface, which is visually very appealing. A - Induction coils B - Electronic circuits

This induction cooktop contains many innovations which also include the structure of the product. Two large induction coils are replaced by large number of small coils which in their centers have sensors for registering whether the cookware is placed above them. Induction coils have a shape of hexagons which allows for the most compact packing. Such coil distribution allows users to place the cookware anywhere on the cooktop. 1. Standard induction cooktop 2. Sidecooker A - Position sensor

A camera at the top of the appliance can project an image of the cooking process to the display at the bottom and to your living room TV through the Wi-Fi connection. This kind of remote oversight of meal preparation through your TV enables you to know exactly how well the meal is cooked, as well as to use your time simultaneously for some other important task, i.e. watching a good movie.

Because of their height, people in the wheelchair have difficulties to see inside the pot, while cooking. Camera and the display are there to help them out. Camera captures the meal being cooked and projects the image on the display in the front, which can be adjust in the way so the people in the wheelchairs can easily see it.