Linked by David Adams on Thu 18th Oct 2007 13:57 UTC
Remember those great "home of the future" demonstrations from days past? If you're not old enough to remember them from world fairs, Disneyland, or movie newsreels, you've probably seen the cartoons parodying them: Robotic maids, self-cleaning kitchens, futuristic-looking plastic furniture, dehydrated food; everything white, round, and sparkling. Well, it's the future now, and it didn't exactly turn out the way they thought it would, but thanks to ubiquitous computer technology, today's home can have capabilities that futurists 50 years ago would never have imagined.
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RE: Kitchen of the future
by sbergman27 on Sat 20th Oct 2007 01:54
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Now, there has been talk of having a fridge that monitors the age and condition of the food inside,
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Oh dear! I'd better not get one of those. I'd hate to be the first to create a need for fridge psychiatrists, fridge group therapy, and fridge anti-nausea medications!
Better give the fridge a method of ejecting offensive former foodstuffs on its own. ;-)
Edited 2007-10-20 01:55
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Now, there has been talk of having a fridge that monitors the age and condition of the food inside, and that can use the bar codes (or soon, RFID tags) on packages to maintain electronic shopping lists or even reorder food automatically over the Net
Sounds like a fridge for managers: "I need pro-active monitoring of the grocery storage system in case of a freshness defenciency event. Oh and we need to link it to our resupply process to achieve greater synergy. And connect it to the intertubes too."