:)
or we could all buy the food 'replicator' a la Star Trek ;)

Too funny.

It's useless, and and I'm sure it's expensive to fix when it breaks. I like the replicator better, anyway. It's not opening/closing the drawers that wear me out, it's the food prep.

I agree, it's very silly except perhaps for people with severely impaired use of their hands.

palimpsest, did you see Wall-E?

It needs an electrical connection, too. And it's highly touch sensitive, so if you bump up against the cabinet, I presume the drawer opens?

Agree that it could be great for a kitchen for the handicapped, though.

Or maybe for a trash cabinet.

It could be good for people who have muscular problems in certain situations. I know people who are looking for a handsfree garbage opener, maybe this could be opened with a foot easily?

One KD I spoke with said it was "great, and ONLY added about 2 grand to the whole kitchen . . . " I can think of several different ways to spend 2 grand in a kitchen

OK, fine you guys... make fun!! But my cabinets are coming this week and I'll post my report. I think of it as a tapmaster for trash--- I wanted my trash pullout to have a foot pedal, but my cabinet maker (whom I trust and has done several jobs for us) said they break and tend to be cheesily made (and not cheap) which is the feedback I found on this forum, too. He included this instead.... So, phasers on stun and I'll beam up my real life opinion soon!!

At th eend of the Youtube video linked to above, you can see very well how much distance the push mechanism needs to travel through to get Blum drawers to get past their self-closing bump. It needs about 2 inches. This makes it clear why push latches won't work with self-closing drawers, the way they are designed now.

I think it would have some very practical Limited applications. I hope it works in yours:)

I actually thought it was kind of cool and could see practical applications for it. --Just thought of it as advanced foot-pedal type of convenience. I often have something on my hands that I won't care if it touches what I want to retrieve, but don't necessarily want it on my cabinet pulls, and of course, there's the trash/recycle/compost use that's already been mentioned. I would want it before I'd have soft close, but not for an extra $2K. :-)

I could easily see adding it to some of our cabinets. Ie the corner cabinet with lazy susan that DH never closes properly, as well as the spice pulls that DH never closes properly...The upper cabinets that DH never closes properly...do you sense a theme here? :oP

I like the cabinet doors CLOSED entirely...now do they do one so he can't prop up the DW door? That drives me nuts too!

wow, laziness has hit a new low...at first I thought it was a joke.

but come to think of it, I do think that could be helpful for someone who is disabled.

I looked at them a few months ago at my suppliers. They didn't have a working display, but were going to have the Blum rep come in and do a demo for me. I want to be able to offer them to clients and will use them in my own kitchen. I will be buying them wholesale and installing them myself so they will cost me less but they are still not cheap. My kitchen will be contemporary with horizontal veneered slab drawers with very little spacing between them and no handles. This type of look is where I've mostly seen them used and makes the most sense but they can be used on any style drawers.

Doesn't anybody ever go to the Blum web site directly, without passing through others?

On my browser Servo Drive is at http://www.blum.com/us/en/01/40/70/index.php
I can't find the video right now.
They just bump it with their hipbone and it opens. Same principle as a $10 push latch.
The handleless look is nice.

At http://www.blum.com/us/en/03/index.php you can get a demo from someone with a cute Swiss accent AND English subtitles underneath just in case her pronunciation isn't good enough...

This would definitely be good for handicapped people.

you won't want to have it on the drawer you use for dog treats tho... excuse the dude's lack of good movement.

Here is a link that might be useful: dog treats

Maybe some of us find ourselves zooming around the kitchen more than others...sometimes out of industry, sometimes out of poor planning. ;-) (speaking for myself, so please, no one else be offended) Some sense of being 'lazy smart' can be a good thing, and if you can make tools do some of the work for you while you do the rest, which may be a more important use of your time, whether this is a particular tool you choose to utilize or not, more power to you! I'm sure a lot of things we use now we're looked upon as 'only for the lazy' at some point.

OK, I'd never spend the 2K, but in the right kitchen with a modern look to it, I think it would be pretty neat to have no handles on any drawers! I dont think it is about laziness, it is about clean lines and that "wow" factor. Lots of people spend 5-10K easily on a range just because it looks great, when the 2-5K ones are just as functional, so this really isnt that much different!

Not 2K anymore! Cheaper than expected. With cabs running close to 1K per foot, this seems a lot more affordable.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cheaper servo drive

I'm very surprised at the some of the comments. For those of you thinking "lazy" and "waste of money", please give a thought to:

Eighty-four year old, fiercely independent, grandmother who insists on living along in her home of 60 years, but whose hands are gnarled and painful from the arthritis earned by an active and useful life.

Twenty year old young man who wants to "stand on his own two feet" despite Cerebral Palsy, but for whom every kitchen task is a challenge fraught with difficulties.

Parents of triplets who don't have enough hands left to open anything.

And, as has been said, people with hands full of yuck who want access to their trash.

These may be fanciful toys for some, but the difference between frustration and ease for others. Whatever it is, it seems to fit well with the theory of "universal design".