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Hi-Tech or just really lazy?
- Thread starter Lyndhurst 14
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Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
Cheese for the wife's lunchtime sandwiches tomorrow.
I did think about winging it:
"Special treat for lunch tomorrow dear: diet cheese sandwich."
"What's a 'diet cheese sandwich'?"
"Two slices of bread."
Then I realised I valued my testicles and put my coat back on.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
You must have clicked on the 'check cupboard contents' app by accident. I don't keep eggs in the fridge.
Norman Potting
Well-known member
There's a TV ad at the moment for a Samsung washing machine that allows you to add items that you might have neglected after you started the wash.
I'm so glad there's now a solution to a problem that I've had to face only a handful of times in my 48 years on this planet (and wasn't a big deal when it happened anyway).
Must be ahead of the times in the Potting household. If I press start/pause on our WM it will let me open the door and chuck another thing in - invariably a sock that has escaped from the heap during the journey from the washing basket to the machine.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
Keep it in the fridge?
Lyndhurst 14
Well-known member
- Jan 16, 2008
- 5,132
- Thread starter
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In an emergency you could always use the 200 page User Manual that will come with the Samsung Fridge
Nah. That'll be a .pdf on a CD at best. You'll have to scrape yourself clean with the disc!
symyjym
Banned
Would be better off with a barcode reader on the fridge door which could be bought as an attachment for any fridge. Swipe in the new and swipe out the used.
Screw that. It'd be sure to malfunction and shout "unexplained item in fridge door!" every time* I took a beer out.
*every 30 minutes
symyjym
Banned
If there is a malfunction this is covered. All you have to do is manually punch in the 30 digit code.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,328
heard it before, replace IoT with RFID. where did that go? it sounds good on paper, the technocrati love it and get in to the early deployment, but in the end... no killer application, no real advantages for the vast majority of the population beyond "nice toy". we had the concept of the internet connected fridge 15 years ago, no interest in it since. there will be individual tools, devices that are internet capable (like tablets, TVs) and there will be dumb appliances.
RFID is currently used in all the strategiic data centres I have designed for Thomson Reuters. Every item is tagged the moment it arrives. Most enterprises use it now, along with DCIM tools, IoT will take off. 100% certain of it.
Mr Putdown
Well-known member
Not nearly as cool as back when you could sit in a pub, drink beer and talk to people without thinking or, ffs, even doing work.
Now that really was cool.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
RFID is used on tyres in motorsport. Lets the Race Director know who's using what.
In John Lewis they have a 'Home of the future' setup with smart bulbs, wireless speakers, wireless CCTV etc in it, it's an interesting concept. That fridge is in there too. I can see the benefits, and the possibility to develop further useful apps for it. Think we're not there yet, but soon it'll be the norm.
In John Lewis they have a 'Home of the future' setup with smart bulbs, wireless speakers, wireless CCTV etc in it, it's an interesting concept. That fridge is in there too. I can see the benefits, and the possibility to develop further useful apps for it. Think we're not there yet, but soon it'll be the norm.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,335
Seems to me that the only useful, er, use for the Samsung Fridge complete with internal cameras is to let you check on your smartphone to see if the little light stays on or off when you shut the door.
Currently, IoT is not much more than companies looking to make money, but I can imagine more useful things than self-shopping-fridges.
When all houses have roof tiles that are actually mini solar panels*, and energy storage is possible on a house-by-house basis, each appliance would need to "negotiate" for its bit of electricity. Fridges and freezers would use recently announced technology to charge up and stay cold for longer without a constant drain. But you wouldn't want them draining the house battery at the same time as your Tesla is charging in the garage. Unless, of course, your house management system knows that you are staying home tomorrow, and which rooms need heating to what level, etc. I'm sure you can add your own ideas.
* The National Trust beach cafe at Kynance Cove has had these for a few years, and you wouldn't realise they weren't "normal" tiles. Nicer than the current solar panels.