Futuristic Refridgerator!

Yeah, I think there was also a bit more then that planned such as like you said, what you might be low on, and maybe kind of a thought process of how things work for you. Like, what you eat might often, might be suggested to you, dislikes, what to avoid, what you got most recently, etc. I think all of these are going to be implemented to some degree. What degree? I'm not entierly sure. It's also a good way to know what's in your fridge. I think off the top of my head and look in the fridge today and I doubt I could figure out instantly what's all in the fridge, with a list like that I dont even really have to think that hard. It would also be neat I think to have a timer as to how long you've had the food, drink etc. and keep track of the expiration dates for you. All a whole bunch of neat things I would love to see, =D

Although i'm way late on responding to this discussion, my guess is that it would work on the concept of you scanning stuff with the bar code. The technology is already around today, so why not make use of it? You would probably have to scan the stuff when you're about to put it in the fridge, and when you take it out you would probably have to scan it again to indicate that it will no longer be residing in the fridge. I would imagine the refridgerator would probably use about the same amount of electricity if not, less. I don't think they're upgrading the refridgerator, so much as the technology outside of it. Only problem is that electricity you're probably saving on the opening of the fridge door will probably going into that fancified catalog program it would use to show you the list of stuff. You could probably mark the stuff yourself, or I imagine they would allow you to. Like. Let's say you scanned an item, you'll probably be able to mark it as a leftover. That, and i'm sure to some degree it would keep track of the days whatever the item has been in the fridge & I think it would make sense also to have a warning when an item is close to expiration. Supposedly it's also going to carry a bit of an AI(Artificial Intelligence) so to speak where it will analyze the different items in your fridge and come up with suggestions. Not necessarily like recipes or anything like that(that would be neat if it did though.) but like. It may suggest a food you have most often that's currently available, or just other random things like that. It's actually not too advanced if you think about it. It would probably be expensive at first as it's merging two markets together, basically. I would say after a little while though, the price would drop to a little above average for what a refridgerator goes for today.