Hi-Tech or just really lazy?

[Lyndhurst 14]

Had to happen I suppose. I saw this bad boy in the local electrical store. It’s a Samsung Fridge complete with internal cameras that lets you check the contents on your smartphone to see if you are running low on anything, eventually it will automatically order items for you. Bound to be a big hit here in the States as it will let the average lardarse make sure they never run out of ice cream, burgers, etc.

 

[beorhthelm]

gimmick. they've been trying to sell us the dream of "internet of things" and devices such as online fridges since the 2000 dot com boom. a few phone controled lights, or a online accessible (and hackable) security camera aside, no one i knows has the least interest in it all. the idea you can internet control your washing machine is daft to most people. this fridge with a camera to see whats in is at least more usful than the idea of one that automatically updates your shopping list (presumbaly online) as you use stuff.

 

[studio150]

Seems to be the craze now that we must have an app for everything. Personally I have always found walking into the kitchen and opening the fridge door and looking inside works very well.

 

[W.C.]

Always loved Homer's approach to lazy and fridge

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

It's not an essential piece of life changing technology but I imagine it will be relatively useful for some people in America(or Canada, Australia etc) who live a fair distance from a supermarket. If they go to a supermarket on their way home from work, for example, it'd be handy to know what you need to buy.

 

[half time scores]

Yet another solution to a problem we never knew we had.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Yet another solution to a problem we never knew we had.

Pretty much what I was going to say.

 

[Justice]

Had to happen I suppose. I saw this bad boy in the local electrical store. It’s a Samsung Fridge complete with internal cameras that lets you check the contents on your smartphone to see if you are running low on anything, eventually it will automatically order items for you. Bound to be a big hit here in the States as it will let the average lardarse make sure they never run out of ice cream, burgers, etc.

Looks like someone's kicked the shite out of the fridge already.

 

[Fungus]

I have a pen and a pad of paper, and add shopping items as soon as I'm aware I need them.

 

[happypig]

I have a pen and a pad of paper, and add shopping items as soon as I'm aware I need them.

Where can I download this "pen and paper" ?

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

It's not the worst idea ever to be fair. I would assume that it would be useful for those random dashes to the shops.

It's a shame that hustle isn't still on TV as I have visions of someone using it as a safe with video monitoring that they would hack and steal the contents - I have just binged on Hustle to be fair

 

[Justice]

I have a pen and a pad of paper, and add shopping items as soon as I'm aware I need them.

Link?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

gimmick. they've been trying to sell us the dream of "internet of things" and devices such as online fridges since the 2000 dot com boom. a few phone controled lights, or a online accessible (and hackable) security camera aside, no one i knows has the least interest in it all.

Plenty of people use Hive (and similar) to control their heating remotely. Sky Go / V+ would have been the stuff of fantasy ten years ago. Now its absolutely normal that I can watch any of the 100 channels on my iPad, or access the box from anywhere in the world to set something to record, etc.

These things can quiet easily move on from 'why would you need that' to 'that's handy / normal'.

(Still not having the fridge though!)

 

[Official Old Man]

I use Tado remote heating. As our working hours are far from 9 to 5 the heating was warming up an empty house. Now it knows 15 minutes prior to our arrival that we are driving home and heats up the house. Simply brilliant.

 

[brightn'ove]

Yet another solution to a problem we never knew we had.

So you've never got back from the shops, began unpacking and looked in the fridge and thought "F***! I didn't know we'd run out of ....."?

 

[KVLT]

There's a TV ad at the moment for a Samsung washing machine that allows you to add items that you might have neglected after you started the wash.

I'm so glad there's now a solution to a problem that I've had to face only a handful of times in my 48 years on this planet (and wasn't a big deal when it happened anyway).

 

[Rod Marsh]

gimmick. they've been trying to sell us the dream of "internet of things" and devices such as online fridges since the 2000 dot com boom. a few phone controled lights, or a online accessible (and hackable) security camera aside, no one i knows has the least interest in it all. the idea you can internet control your washing machine is daft to most people. this fridge with a camera to see whats in is at least more usful than the idea of one that automatically updates your shopping list (presumbaly online) as you use stuff.

I disagree. IoT is/ will be massive. Vehicles, Buildings, Roads, Bridges, White goods, anything and everything that can be hooked up to the net will be. Future generations will take this as the norm. The more data you get, the informed decisions you can make.

 

[Trufflehound]

I went to the supermarket a couple of hours ago and when I got home I realised I'd forgotten to get one item. I've just been back to the shop and got it.

True story.

 

[GreersElbow]

I believe you have the option to buy it or not, but I could be wrong.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Plenty of people use Hive (and similar) to control their heating remotely. Sky Go / V+ would have been the stuff of fantasy ten years ago. Now its absolutely normal that I can watch any of the 100 channels on my iPad, or access the box from anywhere in the world to set something to record, etc.

These things can quiet easily move on from 'why would you need that' to 'that's handy / normal'.

(Still not having the fridge though!)

Yeah completely agree with this. There are lots of things that are really useful that people would never have dreamed possible a few years ago.

The fact that I can sit in the pub and access my PC at work from my phone to use the secure system to produce documents for clients is very cool. Cloud backup that saves everything automatically so that I can access all the files I work on at home when I get to the office without having to remember to specifically save stuff somewhere or carry a USB stick around. Simple stuff but it's completely changed the way people work.

And sitting watching the Ashes in a beach bar in Bulgaria, being able to set the Sky box to record The Verdict when we'd smashed the Aussies was another "isn't technology amazing" moment.

That fridge though. Meh.