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"  You might be asking yourself, what&amp;#039;s with the steampunk-looking fantasy room pictured above? Well, it&amp;#039;s the kitchen of the future, at least according to Philips. It&amp;#039;s all part of something the health-care/lighting/consumer-lifestyle company calls the Microbial Home Project, wherein it imagines a &amp;quot;domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting, human waste, and healthy lifestyle.&amp;quot; Rather than churning out trash, the space hopes to use byproducts as &amp;quot;fuel.&amp;quot; What this means in practice: a &amp;quot;bio-digester&amp;quot; that can turn leftovers into methane gas for powering a stove and lights; a radical new cooling system that keeps stuff fresh while growing edible plants; and a plastic waste up-cycler that, well, breaks down plastic waste. Notably not included: your precious dishwasher or microwave. But if you think that&amp;#039;s crazy, just check out the bathroom. It&amp;#039;s all conceptual for now, but it&amp;#039;s sort of comforting to know that someone out there is planning an alternative to Waterworld for the human race. [via Grist] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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