What I want in a fridge
Posted on August 21, 2005
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I like my fridge, it does a pretty decent job of keeping the cold stuff cold and the frozen stuff frozen but really, besides dump a lot of waste heat out it’s backside and into the kitchen, that’s pretty much all it does. I want it to do more, and I don’t mean make fancy little round ice cubes - who gives a crap about fancy little round ice cubes?
I want a fridge that:
- is transparent at the press of a button. Make the door and sides out of liquid crystal sandwhiched between glass. Half the time I forget I’ve bought something because it’s stuck way in the back behind the juice and the moldy chicken; I want a 180° view of its guts
- contains an RFID reader. As I put stuff in track what it is and keep it on a digital list displayed on the door. As I run out of things strike them off the list.
- has a door design that isn’t side-swinging. Side-swinging doors dump all that precious cold air right onto my floor. I already have an air conditioner for that
- has an electrical outlet inside the fridge. It has a light socket, why not an electrical outlet? Don’t ask me why I want that, I won’t tell you.
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I often ask questions like that after I eat things I find in the back of my fridge.
my god, you hit the nail. I’ve been dreaming of this for some time. Once you have an inventory of your items it can also tell you when they are likely to expire by changing their highlight color on the list, it can logon to the net and find recipe’s that match ingrediants left in your fridge and it can make a shopping list of things you generally use but have run out of. Tracking things in the fridge wouldn’t be dificult. You could even intigrate a few camera’s for basic 3d scanning (see some projects relating to this on the net) so it could detect things that do not have rfid or bar codes such as fruits, etc.
yeah, im ready when you are. Imagine an audioscrobbler.com like community for fridge inventories
a friend of friend network based on fridge contents… or replace the so mid 2000 fad of putting mood and current track in your blog post with a list of rotting food in your fridge.
My friend, I like the way you think.