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)

[#1 posted by Citizenkaned, August 11, 2009 5:36 AM]

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

[#2 posted by Anonymous, August 11, 2009 7:21 AM]

This is real steampunk.

[#3 posted by ian_b, August 11, 2009 7:24 AM]

can it play "kettle whistle"?

[#4 posted by ivan256, August 11, 2009 7:50 AM]

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!

[#5 posted by JenniferJ, August 11, 2009 8:56 AM]

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

[#6 posted by kjs3, August 11, 2009 8:59 AM]

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.

[#7 posted by Dave Faris, August 11, 2009 9:05 AM]

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

[#8 posted by Gemma, August 11, 2009 11:18 AM]

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

/healthandsafety

[#9 posted by Evil Jim, August 11, 2009 6:47 PM]

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'.