Samsung has updated its smart TV user experience with the refreshed “Smart Hub” user interface and new Samsung Smart Control remote. For starters the Family Hub Refrigerator is the first fridge to have cameras inside of it, three of them in fact.
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Smart fridges have been in smart home concept videos for decades and have never really been a reality. It also takes a picture of what’s inside your fridge every time you close the door- meaning you’ll always bet up to date on how much milk and bread you have left. “Even if you’re at the store and forget to check on what you need for dinner that night, you can easily pull up the Samsung Smart Home app and have a look right into your Family Hub fridge”. Samsung says it will be showing off the device in its exhibition space on the CES show floor, which hasn’t opened yet.
Realising that modern fridges have become too sterilised, Samsung wanted to apparently create something that would allow kids and parents to turn the fridge back into the organisation hub of the family.
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Aside from this feature, users can also post reminders and messages to their family on the fridge’s display using the said specially developed app. The screen can also be used to connect to the web, search for recipes and other web pages to help the user specially when preparing meals for the family.
Samsung has also fitted the refrigerator doors with two stereo speakers that will broadcast news and weather from partner websites in addition to play music off the radio.
The enormous, four-door smart device features a 21.5-inch, 1080p, Gorilla Glass-covered touchscreen that uses the Tizen OS to let you write notes (either with a stylus, which strangely isn’t included, or your finger), and display calendars.
The “smart” new Samsung fridge will likely hit the markets in spring this year; and will be priced at around $5,000. “Now more than ever, we are delivering on the promise of the Internet of Things with a Wi-Fi-connected range that takes cooking convenience to a new level”. You can tell at the supermarket whether you really need more eggs.
Shopping lists are approved using a PIN, while the fridge can (worryingly in this writer’s opinion) learn your family’s eating habits and make recommendations.
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The screen is large enough that you could potentially do away with any TV sets in the kitchen, mirroring your TV, but only if you have one of their Samsung smart TVs.
