Apparently LG’s $8000 Internet fridge flopped in 2004. At CES this week Whirlpool have announced their version of an Internet fridge that comes with some “fridge front door simulating” software and a pocket for various computer/display options.

Amazingly this coincides with me realising I needed an internet enabled fridge today while shopping for dinner. I don’t think I’d actually use the Internet in our kitchen, it’s too small for one thing & I’d have to crouch down as we have a bar fridge. However I’d really like to have some way of remembering whether M or I bought some food stuff the day before, or if there’s any left. There were three unopened punnets of tom thumb tomatoes in there when I brought the fourth one home tonight, I just couldn’t be sure whether I’d bought any and I had a particular meal in mind (John Dorey fillets cooked with tomatoes and olives with snow peas and brown rice).

Anyway, I wanted to be able to check my phone and see a still image of the current contents of my fridge. It just needs a web server, a digital camera and a cgi script to turn on the light and control the camera for me be able to retrieve such images. I don’t think I could ever use software to record what I put in there so this might be a crude but effective alternative?

I also don’t understand why, in this day and age, all TV’s don’t have built in wireless connectivity and a web browser.

Update: Later, actually now, I have no idea why i wrote this, perhaps just to keep my writing hand in? In a completely different mood I realise all I’m asking for is small high quality wireless cameras that can be controlled/accessed remotely. Surely these are a dime a dozen by now.

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