Beyond Door Thousand 8: Proof Of Who Ate My Chocolate
Okay, while this technologically advanced door is within the technical realm of this category, it really isn’t within the spirit … it doesn’t have a handle and you can’t walk through it (yet), but it is a clever old door nevertheless. This is the Electrolux Screenfridge, a simple name for a very intricate piece of electronics.
It is a prototype refrigerator which has a digital camera inside. The digital camera takes a picture and uploads it to a server every time the door closes – another weapon in the crime fighting arsenal of the missing chocolate detectives! When you are out at the store and can’t remember what you have run out of, you can check the photos using your cellphone … hooray, soon machines will have taken over the functions of the human brain completely, leaving us nothing to do except reproduce and create an environment for the machines to live in … You can also check the photos via a PC, which is handy if you often have your laptop in the car, but a little useless otherwise.
The is not the only amazing property of this fridge door though – it follows on from the multimedia refrigerator from LG, which you might have seen advertised on television. The LG version of the fridge is the original, and includes features like a television, music player, and internet surfing capabilities. For when you are cooking tea and suddenly must check your email without having the time to go into the living room or bedroom! It includes a camera and microphone, but doesn’t have the automatic picture taking and storing functions that the Electrolux model does. All the electronics are also put to some food-related use, with its inbuilt electronic temperature control, chilled water dispenser and ice dispenser. If you are prone to forgetting exactly what was in the Tupperware at the back of the fridge, but is now covered in green fur, then you can enter your container contents on the fridge’s screen, as well as their expiration dates. However, I’d like to meet the person that has all of the time, the inclination, and the need to do this …
I believe the internet connection capabilities of the fridge are built for when the technology advances further. In theory, in the future you may enter minimum quantities and types of food into the screen at the front, and the fridge may take photos of your fridge’s contents, catalogue them against your ’shopping list’, and automatically re-order things over the net when you reach the preset minimum quantity.
However, now you can shop for your door knob, lever handle, locks and knockers from an entirely new setting … the front of your fridge!




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