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Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look-inside dept.

anderzole writes with news about Samsung's latest and greatest refrigerator unveiled at CES. Engadget reports: "One of the highlights of CES is always the wacky new appliance tech (and associated bickering) from Samsung and LG. This year looks to be no exception thanks to a new 'Family Hub' refrigerator from Samsung. The imposing-looking model is equipped with a 21.5-inch, 1080p monitor and cameras inside so that you can watch your mayonnaise go bad in real time. You can even check the contents remotely via a smartphone app to see what's in there while you're shopping, in case you forgot whether you need that jar of sweet pickles or not."

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  1. Wow by liqu1d · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To think I've been opening my fridge all these years :(.

    1. Re:Wow by magarity · · Score: 3, Insightful

      So what does an obese person have in their refrigerator after all?

      Oreos, Moon Pies, Twinkies, etc, do not need refridgeration. The fat people I know have nearly empty refridgerators but cabinets stuffed with packaged food.

  2. great for my wife checking up on her aged parents by turkeydance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who are not consistently appropriate with kitchen duties. a remotely monitored oven/stove would be wonderful.

  3. Software updates? by evilRhino · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't trust Samsung to support the smartphone app for too much longer. They don't have a good track record.

  4. Re:Ugh... no thanks. by gtall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As one of the previous commenters mentioned, it is good for keeping tabs on the contents of the elderlies' refrigerators. If you have ever had to care for aged parents or aunts or uncles or grandparents, you quickly realize many can get along just fine as long as the little details of life can be managed for them. You have a choice, you can buy in-home care to do this for you. However, if you don't have that sort of cash to throw around (and it ain't cheap), then little baubles like this are god-send. You won't be there enough time and it would exhaust you to do it.

    And when you reach your dotage, you will want to (1) be independent, (2) thankful for little eyes to watch things for you just as long as they aren't attached to someone strange (or weird, or larcenous) in your house.

  5. Re:is anyone else tired? by IMightB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Completely fed up with this BS. I don't need a fridge that can slice dice and wash my laundry. I want it to keep my food cold and ice frozen and be dependable doing so.

  6. Re:More spying opportunities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As long as you can still use the "stupid" inputs, you can just ignore all the "smart" crap. TV sets have been running OSes inside for quite a while now. All the "smart" stuff does is use up the extra cycles in low-wattage CPUs that come almost for free these days.

    If you don't plug it in to Ethernet or give it your wireless password, there's not a lot it can do, except throw a tantrum when it can't tell on you to mommy. Which it won't do because there will be a lot of people with no or insufficient bandwidth at home for a while to come. And if it can get on your wireless without a password, then you have other problems.