Geeks and Chefs, Unite

ooglek writes: "You thought you had every gadget made, until this came along. The new Internet Fridge from LG Appliances. Not only does it keep your food from perishing, but it plays MP3s, TV, a list of the food actually in your fridge, a calendar, and, of course, recipes! Finished in Titanium. Wicked."

Comments

Ludacrisp...

[torgosan]

...the LAST thing I want to do is stand infront of the fridge reading emails, /. or any of my other fave sites. Much rather be relaxing in my chair, RedBull close at hand...

Then one day...

[John Paul Jones]

You are out of mayonnaise, Dave. Why don't you buy more, Dave.

-JPJ

Overclockers

[boa13]

...have done that for a long time. I mean, putting a CPU inside a fridge... nothing new.

Oh, and can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?

Does it have a SPAM filter?

[Anonymous Coward]

And, I don't mean junk email, I mean actual spam. I sure don't want that stuff showing up in my fridge! Ewww!

What'll they think of next?

[JordanH]

Wow. A fridge that plays MP3s.

Next thing you know, they'll have a CPU that can cook a roast. Oh wait, Intel did that already - the Pentium 4 @ 2.53 GHz.

I wonder if

[SLot]

you can set up a cron job to order beer.

This is seriously cool. And I want one yesterday.

Wow!

[Pathetic Coward]

This will be bigger than pets.com ...

ahem

[Verizon Guy]

#/sbin/unlockdoor

unlockdoor: Sorry, I think you've had enough to eat today.

Re:it scans bar codes

[R2.0]

Screw that - I want one that scans bar codes when people pull something out...

Time: 10 years from now

Place: my house

Setting: my daughter's first night w/o adult supervision.

Rriing, rriing. "Hello?"

"This is Dad, how are you doing."

"Fine Dad - Just me and some girlfriends."

"Good. Well have fun, and don't stay up too late. Oh, and by the way, the fridge phoned me and said a few beers had been removed. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you."

"Errrr..."

Rest of the night spent looking for the phone cord/WiFi connection on the fridge. It doesn't exist - Dad was bluffing.

Now if I can only stay ahead of my kids on the geek curve.

reciphp

[TheLocustNMI]

wouldn't it be great if there was an online, GPL'ed repository for recipes too? oh wait, there is -- ReciPHP -- it's still in beta, but it is already a great categorization and search tool for recipes! like Freshmeat, except with more meat :)

Thnk that's funny?

[JaredOfEuropa]

I'll be waiting for the software upgrade with dietary and hygienic advice.

- "That chicken is really going bad... remove it, now, please."

- "Chicken wings again Dave? I am afraid I can't let you have those. How about a healthy salad?"

Sad thing is, I fully expect fridges of the future telling me off for having unhealthy eating habits.

Wait until the advertisers get a hold of this one

[Craig Maloney]

I can see it now. "I see you're pulling out Velveeta. Soft, creamy Velveeta is great for macaroni and cheese as well as a nice pasta salad on a warm summer day. wow, isn't that refreshing. Try our other great Kraft products today, like Miracle Whip and... (*shut*)"

Or...

"I see you're running low on Miracle Whip so I've taken the liberty of ordering you a crate. You wouldn't want to run out, now would you?"

And what about people who re-use containers? Would my three bean salad and baked beans be counted has having two Country Crock margarines?

No thanks... I prefer the old fashioned exploration of todays modern refrigerators. "Hmmm... Country Crock... Whoops... that's the three bean salad from... ugh... last fourth of July. Better call Hazmat."

Re:176 kg ?

[Rob.Mathers]

Heading to General Electric Appliances Canada (http://geappliances.ca), I compared 10 random side-by-side fridges. The average weight was 322.2 pounds, or 150.68 kg. So maybe this is slightly heavier. I would guess it's simply made of heavier materials, maybe a few kilo difference due to electronics.

Re:How long before

[Pfhor]

You refigerate twinkies?

What kind of weird sicko are you?

If it keeps me from the red meat portion, there will be compressors rolling!

I can see the BUGTRAQ advisory now...

[defile]

Homely SecuriCrack Teamz in coordination with the Culinary Institute of America Security Research Group has discovered a serious vulnerability in the LG Internet Refrigerator.

An unchecked buffer in FridgeScape 3.12, the web browser built into the user interface panel will, if exploited, allow malicious users to gain full superuser control of the refrigerator. From here, it's trivial to set the temperature of the fridge to spoil the food, shoot ice cubes out at high velocity, or set invalid parameters in the cooling unit causing the freon tank to rupture, turning your refrigerator into a 250lbs titanium shrapnel grenade.

The vendor was notified 6 months ago and again 3 months later but has not responded.

We recommend that all users run their home appliances behind a firewall and that extraneous features on other household appliances, such as Auto-Ironing and Mow-On-Demand be disabled

The unabomber was right. We're doomed.

The Internet-Enabled Fridge

[rocjoe71]

"Sorry, this fridge does not accept cookies. If you want this fridge to accept cookies, please adjust your security settings, close the door and try again."

boo to titanium on fridges

[colmore]

Ok, it can keep a calendar, it can leave messages, it can play MP3s, etc. etc

but thanks to the titanium finish:

YOU CAN'T PUT MAGNETS ON IT!!!!

what kind of world is this?

Re:it scans bar codes

[spudnic]

How about a lifelike 3d holographic image of delicious looking food sitting in the fridge. You reach for it and, of course, your hand passes right through it. Then the fridge cheerfully informs you that he can arrange to have the real thing delivered in a couple of hours.