3 ms·

"Extremely minimal" is debatable. You could make the same argument for GPS / phone map apps. Yes, of course you could have consulted a map before you left the h

by kardos 10y ago

"Extremely minimal" is debatable. You could make the same argument for GPS / phone map apps. Yes, of course you could have consulted a map before you left the house. The fact that we no longer have to is the benefit that technology has afforded us. Remote fridge viewing is in the same category.

M_Grey 10y ago
Lets be real... GPS is a highly versatile tech that can keep time, coordinate global markets, makes Uber possible, enables GPS directions and let us not forget... also fairly useful in military applications. A camera in your fridge, is a camera in your fridge. It serves one purpose, and it's the one you achieve by necessity every time you get anything from the fridge.
- fnord123 10y ago
  I think there's no way a camera in the fridge could do the job it needs to do (seeing through several shelves and inside drawers; not getting frosted over). I think we'd have to move to rfids on food packaging; akin to bar codes. This could help with the pantry as well. Not sure it can help with food from your butcher or {cheese, fish}monger.
  - jessaustin 10y ago
    For unlabeled foods one can imagine "smart" bins capable of weighing their contents and communicating that measurement via bluetooth to the "smart" refrigerator.
    - fnord123 10y ago
      I can imagine the new arguments. "Honey, why did you put the cheese in the cured meat bin?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP5oid8fD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP5oid8fD8
  - M_Grey 10y ago
    ...This is not a remote system! To use the fridge, you must physically access the fridge each time you wish to use it. What... is the benefit of any of this?
    - CaptSpify 10y ago
      > This is not a remote system For you. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be for everybody else. > What... is the benefit of any of this? Has that not already been made clear? People have listed useful examples that you are ignoring

by kardos 10y ago

M_Grey 10y ago

Lets be real... GPS is a highly versatile tech that can keep time, coordinate global markets, makes Uber possible, enables GPS directions and let us not forget... also fairly useful in military applications. A camera in your fridge, is a camera in your fridge. It serves one purpose, and it's the one you achieve by necessity every time you get anything from the fridge.

fnord123 10y ago
I think there's no way a camera in the fridge could do the job it needs to do (seeing through several shelves and inside drawers; not getting frosted over). I think we'd have to move to rfids on food packaging; akin to bar codes. This could help with the pantry as well. Not sure it can help with food from your butcher or {cheese, fish}monger.
- jessaustin 10y ago
  For unlabeled foods one can imagine "smart" bins capable of weighing their contents and communicating that measurement via bluetooth to the "smart" refrigerator.
  - fnord123 10y ago
    I can imagine the new arguments. "Honey, why did you put the cheese in the cured meat bin?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP5oid8fD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP5oid8fD8
- M_Grey 10y ago
  ...This is not a remote system! To use the fridge, you must physically access the fridge each time you wish to use it. What... is the benefit of any of this?
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    > This is not a remote system For you. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be for everybody else. > What... is the benefit of any of this? Has that not already been made clear? People have listed useful examples that you are ignoring