Millo One Blender by Millo Appliances is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design Competition Category.
GoldHome Appliance· 2020
Millo One Blender
Client: Millo Applainces
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Home Appliance Category
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About Millo One Blender
Millo One is a portable blender designed for quiet daily use. A patented Magnetic Air Drive transfers torque from the base to the blades without contact, which makes blending very quiet. The cup and the base can be separated, and the cordless build allows blending in many places. The base is rechargeable and controlled by touch. The minimalist form is inspired by the natural shapes of Scandinavian design and combines a circle with a closed ring. Materials include anodised aluminium and BPA-free Tritan plastic. Few moving parts keep cleaning simple.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Millo One Blender is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Millo One Blender is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Millo One Blender creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Where to Get It
Silent Smart Blenders with Magnetic Air Drive
We revolutionize healthy living with the world's quietest portable blenders. Our patented Magnetic Air Drive technology delivers whisper-quiet operation while our touch-sensitive base and app control make nutrition convenient anywhere. Cordless, portable, and beautifully designed for modern lifestyles.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
We were eager to create a blender that people would want to use every day and not hide in a cupboard - where most of the kitchen appliances end up after the first weeks of use. Taking into consideration the fast-paced lifestyles people are leading these days, the blender had to be convenient, quick to use and clean. Millo’s design allowed us to achieve that.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main goal of Millo is to inspire communities to adopt healthier and more sustainable diets. By combining the latest in FoodTech with timeless design, we want to make healthy food preparation simple, enjoyable and limitless.
Sleek and inspired in timeless shapes, the blender has been built not only to provide help in managing our healthy lifestyles, but also better integrate into interiors alongside other gadgets and furniture. To be used beyond the kitchen, we consider the Millo not an electrical appliance, but a gadget.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Our immediate goal is to successfully enter the market in Europe and the West Coast in North America. We want Millo to become an important product within the blender market, but we also want to be the drivers of a new category - the Foodtech gadget. We believe technology needs to do more for people’s health when it comes to nutrition, and conventional blenders are failing at this.
We want the product to give people the freedom to improve their nutrition in a convenient manner, with a product that is convenient to use and visually pleasant. We’ve designed Millo to be not only portable and technologically more advanced than other blenders, but also beautiful and suitable for any interior. We want to motivate people to use the blender anywhere, and for it to look good in any environment. In 2-3 years we hope that Millo will have started to drive an impactful change in people’s lifestyles.
The Millo blender is just a first step in the company’s journey. We want to make our patented Magnetic Air Drive technology the new gold standard for the contemporary kitchen. A contactless engine to drive a new generation of smart appliances.
Millo Appliances intends to create new products that will be compatible with the base of our award-winning blender. Following the same timeless design principles, Millo will provide a series of kitchen appliances that use rotation (juicer, coffee grinder, food processor, etc).
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Millo patented Magnetic Air Drive, which allows for contactless transfer of torque from the base to the blades, makes it the quietest blender on the market. Quietness is only the beginning. Its minimalist design utilises BPA-free Tritan Plastic and anodised aluminum for maximum aesthetic impact, while the lightweight materials and separable cup and base mean that millo is fully portable. Not only that, it is fully rechargeable and can be controlled from an intuitive touch controlled base.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Millo blender is composed of three elements: its base has dimensions of 175mm x 175mm x 60mm, while its cup has dimensions of 185 x 100 mm, and its blending lid has dimensions of 100 x 55mm. The package has dimensions of 228 x 228 x 223 mm.
- Tags
- Foodtech, quietest blender, magnetic air drive, innovative blender, portable blender, smart blender, foodtech appliance, smart smoothie maker, cordless blender
- Production Technology
- millo's sleek minimalist design is inspired by the natural forms that characterize Scandinavian design. It combines the circle, the form of security and integrity, with the closed ring, which embodies energy, completeness and balance. This emphasis on timeless form is reflected in the materials used, which have been chosen for their sustainability: anodised aluminum and BPA-free Tritan plastic.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to overcome existing perceptions of what a blender is. The basic design of the blender has not changed since 1922. These devices are typically chunky, aesthetically unappealing, noisy and difficult to clean. We set out to completely reimagine the blender. That's why everything from the motor, to the design, to the materials has been engineered to make millo something that is both a pleasure to use and an aesthetically pleasing item you would be proud to display.
- Research
- Research into Millo's design focused on exploring modern aesthetic directions. The inspiration for both the colour palette and the form came from an exploration of various premium products and minimalist interiors. Functionality was naturally of key importance - pain points and areas for improvement were identified by testing numerous existing blenders. The greatest design challenge was maintaining a minimalist look while incorporating the complex electronics and mechanisms inside Millo's base.
- Inspiration
- The idea for millo came when Ruslanas, a dedicated runner, grew annoyed that his blender would wake his family when he made a smoothie after his morning run. He was determined to create a convenient, easy to clean and silent alternative to the traditional blender. The inspiration for the engineering inside millo came from a surprising source - his daughter. Seeing her play with a toy where two dancing figures were rotated by magnets gave him the idea for millo's patented Magnetic Air Drive.
- Project Duration
- The project was launched in Lithuania in 2016, and the final product is still under development. The first run of blenders are expected to come off the company's locally-based production line in the first half of 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Millo is not just a reimagining of the traditional blender, it is a foodtech gadget designed to help people integrate better nutrition into their busy lifestyles. Its Magnetic Air Drive applies engineering from drone technology for ultra-quiet blending, while its intuitive touch sensitive base and app make it easy and enjoyable to use. Millo is a cordless device with a portable cup for blending anytime, anywhere. With few moving parts and a simple design, Millo is exceptionally easy to clean.
- Patents
- 1. Patent Number: 6541, Indications of the International Patent
Classification (IPC): B01F 13/00, B01F 7/00, A47J, 42/00,
A47J 43/00
2. Application Number: PCT/IB2017/057029. International
Patent Classification: A47J 43/046 (2006.01) - Image Credits
- Millo Appliances
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