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Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com)
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."
To think I've been opening my fridge all these years :(.
No more going to the kitchen in my skivvies then.
who are not consistently appropriate with kitchen duties. a remotely monitored oven/stove would be wonderful.
Well I spy a webcam niche up and coming.
Nobody reads the articles so this story doesn't even provide a link.
We will finally get an answer to the age old question: "Does the fridge light go out when you close the door?"
I don't trust Samsung to support the smartphone app for too much longer. They don't have a good track record.
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.
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.
" Of course there are going to be edge cases where said parents/in-laws live out-of-state"
If your parents are out of state/area, and are in need of care enough for you to have a "smart fridge" to make sure they have food, then you're not doing something right. Move them, or yourself to take care of them. We just did that do my mom. She didn't like it, but we did it anyway, because it was the right thing to do.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
For years I've been wanting something that would enable me to see inside my refrigerator without opening the door and wasting electricity. I always kinda figured the solution would involve a thick glass door and a light switch though. This is cool and all, I guess, but I'd rather have something simpler, with less things to go wrong and break down, and if my last fridge is any indication, that's kinda an issue.
Also, here's the link that was omitted.
I have to ask, though...what are her parents doing hiding in the fridge? That much cold and lack of movement can't possibly be good for their joints.
So, when does adding all these camera features cost more electricity than simply holding the door open while you look for what you want?
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
The funny thing is, I rely on my oven clock more than any other clock, even my smart phone.
The oven clock is the one that gets me to work on time and tells me when to go to bed.
It's a small apartment...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Well, pre-processed stuff might have UPC codes...
I kind of think that you are on the right track though.
Once a refrigerator is able to accurately identify all of the contents (through a combination of UPC scanning, weight, smell and size/shape), you would gain some real value:
- No opening the door to waste energy
- Textual or visual representations of what is inside
- Recipe suggestions based on contents
- Caloric and other stats of the contents
- Shopping list suggestions based on eating habits
- Identification for the source of "that smell"
- Temperature regulation to make sure your head of lettuce doesn't freeze and your milk is ice cold
- Alerts on items you might be low on, sent at a time of day when you might already be in transit
I, for one, welcome our new IoT overlords.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Yes, I too demand that other people uproot their lives rather than allow the existence of a product I don't want for myself.
I don't waste any energy by opening the door - I treat it as an opportunity to take a beer out.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Tomorrow on Shodan: 1.5B images of peanut butter next to mayo.
You keep your peanut butter in the fridge? Peanut butter at room temperature doesn't turn until something like 5 years after the "best before" date.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
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.
And guess who won't be buying Samsung's latest refrigerator?
If other people want this, great, have at it. But it's just not something I want.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
A common misconception. Turns out the Infernal Municipal Council (Public Works Division) regularly resurfaces the Road to Hell with a mixture of sulfurous pitch, crystallized despair, orphan tears, wallpaper glue, tree pollen, crushed up AOL Free Trial CDs, undying snakes, microbeads, fell runestones graven with the demonic localization of the systemd man page, and the mortal souls of chronic masturbaters and people with window decals of Calvin pissing on things.
Good intentions are often a large volume fraction of the cement on the Sidewalk to Poor User Interface Design, which is so similar to Hell that people often get them mixed up.
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