“The Hotpoint Innovation Area explores how technology could improve our domestic life and make it a more sociable, connected and sustainable experience: a glimpse into how we can create smarter kitchens, homes and cities starting from our domestic appliances.”
(via @knolleary. Thanks, Nick)
“LG’s new premium French Door Refrigerator includes a touchscreen LCD panel and a smartphone app so users can check-in and check-out food to manage storage and expiry dates. Furthermore, once you’ve checked in all the food you have purchased, the refrigerator will then suggest recipes utlising the contents. … it can then push this information directly to LG’s new Smart Oven”
“It’s not often that we get excited about a refrigerator, but Samsung’s app-capable LCD cool-box has us salivating. This Wi-Fi-enabled 4-door fridge sports an 8-inch touchscreen, making it possible to use apps like like Epicurious for recipes, play music through Pandora (yes, it has speakers), read the news, take notes, display photos and mark events on Google Calendar. Oh yeah, and it will keep your food cold, too.”
The Lanyrd office has a great internet fridge, and they were kind enough to invite me in for a tour.
“The project was developed during the summer term at the University of Applied Sciences in Schwäbisch Gmünd. It deals with the process of food management in a futuristic scenario where RFID tags are printable. In this scenario, the data stored on the RFID tags is put at the users’ disposal by an interactive terminal. Naturally, the most useful area of application for this technology is the place where perishable goods are kept in - the refrigerator.”
[via Andrea Nastase]
“We asked Samsung for its smartest new invention. This is what they gave us.”
Innovation in Kitchen Appliances
A guest post from Adrian McEwen…
After pointing a friend at this tumblr, he asked if I’d posted my sketches on the idea (which originally appeared over here on my blog). Which I hadn’t, so I’ll rectify that now…
And the sort of innovation I want in my fridge…
“Chip giant Broadcom has launched a new WiFi chip module for manufacturers to use to add connectivity to devices, appliances, energy management gadgets and other things that less commonly have Internet connections.”
[via R. Mutt.]
“It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to outer space.
These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas.?”
[via Dan Hon]
