Most people have some sort of junk drawer in their home where they throw all sorts of random shit that has no home anywhere else. Rummaging through a junk drawer is typically a damn good time to kill an hour or so, especially when it’s someone else’s. After all, you never know what the hell you’re going to find (and possibly horde for yourself.)

The Fractal Furniture is a cubed multi-drawer contraption which allows you to separate your crap into 23 individual nooks rather than one massive stock pile. Perhaps you could divvy up your junk drawer by category; one drawer for spare change, one for stationary, etc., so on and so forth. At least you can add some sort of organization to the mayhem. (more…)

We’ve been looking at fridges lately, we know that you can grow strawberries, frost and defrost your food there, we also reported that fridge doors can open from either side. Today Hitachi is rising the bar by introducing the world’s first auto drawer for your fridge, whether you want to open or close it, close it in the middle of opening, they’re all as simple as a button press. So no more embarrassment for having difficulty in opening those drawers when you bought too much potato, no more hassle when you don’t have hands at all (use your foot to kick the button). The automatic drawers will be used on Hitachi’s top line of fridges, the first model R-W5700 with 565L of storage will be available later this month with a whooping price of 2600USD. –Sam Chan

Press Release [Hitachi]