If you’ve been following the RFID craze, then this one might be of some interest to you. Samsung is readying a refrigerator that can monitor its contents via RFID. So as contents get low the fridge can tally a shopping list so you know exactly what you purchase on your next grocery visit. It can also purportedly create display recipes based on the available ingredients. Pretty awesome stuff.
The problem is, RFID isn’t really used in groceries et. Hopefully it will be by the time this awesome refrigerator shows up in 2008 – 2009.
New Generation Refrigerator To Detect What’s Missing In It [Textually via Engadget]
It would be interesting to see how this works out.
Keep on dreaming. This is 5+ years from being a viable thing, depending on RF on enough products…loading menus into the refrigerator memory and a host of other items.
Plus the price tag on this???
Think how well your PC currently integrates with your cell phone and TV after several years of work. You think that food distributors and refrigerators (and PC or other input) will integrate faster??
It would be cheaper, and easier on the eyes, to hire someone to come in on a monthly basis; clean out the fridge and develop menu plans and shopping list. And if she could cook that would be a bonus!