This is definitely on the horizon and future generations won’t even be aware of a time when you didn’t pay a subscription for every aspect of life. (TikTok screencap)
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It’s all about marketing. “This smart fridge uses quantum AI technology to do neural scans of the contents of your fridge, allowing it to adjust the temperature and humidity perfectly for your food, making it crisp and moist!”
That fridge competes with a dumb fridge from a budget brand that costs 200 to 300 bucks. You can even get self-defrosting ones at that price point.
Unlike TVs, which need to display content, fridges can work just fine when they're just a heat pump, a thermostat, a light bulb, and an insulated box (and optionally also a fan and a heating element). The biggest technical difference between a cheap fridge today and one from the 50s is in materials and using an LED bulb.
I mean, smart fridge COULD be scanning its contents and adjusting the cooling intensity based on that. My dumb fridge always freezes vegetables because even when set to lowest setting the cooling is too much.
But corpos would rathed stuff ads everywhere instead of making actually usefull upgrades.
Looks around at where product design is usually heading
I mean, a smart fridge COULD be scanning it's contents and adjust the displayed ads and sold data about you based on that.
Yes, and use the contents it has scanned to sell to advertisers.
If the lowest setting freezes your food, turn it up.
Lettuce is the only food that can be simultaneously crisp and moist
What about onions?
You keep moist onions in your refrigerator?
Sometimes I only need half an onion, and the rest goes in the fridge
But you still don't want to keep it moist
You don't want onions to have that fresh juicy cronch?
You wanna drink a tall glass of onion juice?
It's about as appealing as a glass of lettuce juice, haha