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Connected appliances.
A bit of a buzz around the old idea of a screen fridge, possibly because there's a camera now that points inwards and posts pictures of what is in your fridge, so that you can check them while at the supermarket and stock accordingly.
It used to be all about magnets, now it's pixelated postcards from your refrigerator.
Leaving all other Cooltown scenarios aside I just wonder: why the surprise?
A few years ago the hot thing was "your appliances will be able to talk to one another", now your fridge has got its own weblog.
If you ask me that's simply evolution of the species.
Sergio made me smile with this little post. it reminded me of a scene from the Young Ones (UK alternative sitcom from the 1980's) where the fridge starts to eat someone. It may even talk, but I suspect it only burps... loudly!
I do kind of see the point about seeing the inside of fridges when you are out shopping but I would rather I had something that could audit what's in the fridge or indeed all my household shopping and based on my usage patterns actually do the shopping for me with my Internet Shjopping facility. My only concern I think then is that in order to do this would I actually be destroying any privacy I had left?
Imagine if the fridge did start blogging - "Well I'm still in a mess from when he dropped the milk all over me and the tomato rotted on the bottom shelf..' Privacy would efinitely be gone then :)
Posted by Paul Goodison at August 12, 2003 09:07 AM | TrackBack