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Am I the only one who sees a usability problem with this? With freezers this layout is acceptable, as you don't browse around for stuff many times a day, just d

• catch23 17y ago
  What it needs is a rotating shelf, it would be less space efficient, but then you could just spin the wheel to get something at the bottom. Also, it doesn't have to be a wheel, maybe just a bunch of hanging shelves on a movable track. If it were a track, you also wouldn't need such a large cover, you could get by with a cover just large enough to access 1 compartment on the movable shelf. Advanced fridge shelves could operate like tape backup systems -- type in "milk" and it rotates the milk compartment to the access cover. With the microcomputer, it could also keep track of access times of each compartment and ping you when it thinks a compartment has food past the expiration date. With the rotating fridge compartments, you could also have weird fridge layouts that still maintain energy efficiency -- maybe a tall and skinny one, but there is a loading bay at the user's height level. Maybe I'm overthinking this...