The first refrigerator of the Internet Age
Calling all web junkies! You now have a new toy to desire...
LRSPC2661T 26 cubic foot Multi-Media RefrigeratorWatch the morning news, download recipes, send and receive e-mail, or leave video messages for your family with a refrigerator? You can if it's the LG Multi-Media Refrigerator. It combines leading-edge refrigerator technology with digital connectivity and control and brings you an unprecedented degree of convenience, quality, and coolness. All enclosed in a fingerprint-proof Titanium? Finish.
The Multi-Media Refrigerator from LG. The first refrigerator of the Internet Age.
Source: LGappliances.com
Lots of responses here:
1) I wonder what level of HTML/CSS/DOM it supports? (Their website is Flash-heavy... does the fridge do Flash?)
2) Does it use IE or something else? If IE, what happens when IE crashes? If something else, how long will it take before Browser Sniffers start sniffing it out?
3) Can my fridge get hacked now?
4) Can I hook it to my cable modem or is it dialup only? (Do I need a special dialup account for my appliances?)
5) Does is support Bluetooth? Wi-Fi?
6) Can it email me when someone drinks out of the milk bottle? How about when someone puts just a little bit of milk back in the fridge? Or if my leftovers have spoiled? Can I email it and ask it to tell me what I need to pick up at the store?
7) Will it: Tell me when I need to put in a new box of baking soda? Chastise me for eating late at night? Tell my mom the vegetable bin is empty, and not because I've been eating them, but because I haven't bought them? Warn me not to open that Tupperware container I put in their last spring? Not to eat that lunchmeat I found behind the pickles?
More later if I think of others....
Comments
A really bad attempt to blur the line between user appliances and computing technology. But building this technology into tv is more sensible.
Posted by: blasterpc8(opera 6.05 user) | November 27, 2002 02:22 PM
what idiots. for internet access you need... a keyboard and a mouse! I haven't visited them, but... what else do you need? how about a chair? want to buy another chair to sit in front of the fridge?
Posted by: r3m0t | December 13, 2002 02:20 PM
COOL! I visited them. I was sceptical about first attempts of internet refrigerators and microwaves which I've heard over a year ago but this one has plenty of neat features.
You know why this idea rocks? Because you have immidiate access to a lot of handy features without need to go and switch the old, crappy box - the computer. This is surely a new quality of home appliances. That's just great!!! I'll buy one for sure in near future - when the price falls down a bit - will not be killing. I assume it is now.
Posted by: Wojciech E. | January 6, 2003 04:20 PM
Amazing...Seems some of us just do not get it and miss the whole point of this MAJOR Appliance. So, here is the breakdown for those of you who claim to know it all, use a palm not a Pocket PC, rather use Mac not Windows, and think any other major operating system will one day send Mr. Gates to the poor house.
1. The Internet refrigerator is made with the hope of making the most used room in the house (the kitchen) digital and able to talk with our other appliances.
2. homegrocer.com was way before it's time. Almost every major food store has an internet division for home delivery of products
3. Since this refrigerator is wired and PC based, it can reorder or remind you of items needed. No more trying to remember what you put on the list you left at home.
4. Most of our refrigerators are covered with magnets and sticky notes reminding us of those family events or household memos to other family memembers, with the calendar and video options, no one has an excuse to forget anything.
these are some of the many reasons why the Internet refrigerator and the tablet PC will be the biggest things to hit the consummer market between now and 2005. I bought mine at fry's electronics and I am counting the seconds until it is delivered. I hope to have HGTV pick up a show we just shot regarding home technology in which the LG and Samsung Internet refrigerators will be featured.
~J
p.s. the real problem I think most have with the refrigerator is the $8800.00 price tag ;) the webpage link will be active April 1st, 2003
Posted by: johnathan | March 13, 2003 01:39 AM