Musical kettle that whistles your favorite tune

~~Naoki Kawamoto~~ Yuri Suzuki's Musical Kettle is part of a series of inventions that 're-design soundscape' -- it plays your favorite tune when it boils.

Musical Kettle 2008 (via Cribcandy)

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This is collaboration with Yuri Suzuki.

He spoke about it at WeLoveTechnology last year.

He is a nice man.

He also did the excellent Sound Chaser.
http://www.yurisuzuki.com/soundchaser.html

CK
Anonymous

This is real steampunk.
ian_b

can it play “kettle whistle”?
ivan256

Boo! It’s electronic!

And the headline was so enticing. It needs to be entirely steam powered. This was a perfect excuse to put a fly-ball governor on the top of a teapot!
Gemma

Probably more likely to knock the kettle of boiling water over yourself too, with that sticking out of it.

/healthandsafety
JenniferJ

Haha…this is much nicer than the loud screaming noise mine makes!
kjs3

Interestingly, I recently purchased a Chantal tea kettle (http://www.cookswarehouse.com/productcart/pc/Chantal-Classic-Tea-Kettles-45p3830.htm), and it has a contraption on the spout such that instead of a whistle, it sounds like someone is blowing a single rising note on a harmonica when the water boils. Freaks the cats out.
Dave Faris

Hey! The photographer forgot to take all his clothes off before taking the pic!
Evil Jim

Way to use a YouTube logo to link to a .mov file. I’ll have to find some other way to watch this. It looks really neat tho’.