Because you definitely want your refrigerator / microwave tweeting every time you make a hot pocket, LG is here to give it to you. Yes, the connected appliance revolution seems to be upon us (why I started this blog now and not in 1992). And the star, at least for now, is LG with it's Thinq line of appliances.
The oven has a smart panel that will show you recipes, and it can link to your smart phone to tell you status information and give you alerts as the cycle is nearing completion (not that LG recommends being away from your oven while cooking, I'm sure). More interesting though, is the smart refrigerator. This is the white whale, what we all have wanted since watching the Jetsons. The smart refrigerator has an interactive display, including voice recognition (with what appears to be running Android based on the similarities with the voice recognition software although that could be coincidental). It too links with your smart phone for something that is quite a bit more useful. Imagine being at work, ready to head home, when you check your phone and notice that your milk is almost out, not that you wouldn't already know that, you're a health nut and drink milk every morning. But let's pretend that you're not; that information could be rather useful, could it not?
The refrigerator also let's you manage its contents through it's smart panel, so you can drag items to different spots in the refrigerator, or use voice recognition to tell it that meat is on the top. This is all fine, but why not have a barcode scanner that you use prior to putting something in? Checking-in items into your refrigerator is going to get old faster than checking-in on Foursquare did (I'm hearing crickets from the Foursquare community). Check out the Mashable link for a nice video demonstration from CES. Also check out the LG link for some of their other CES offerings (that android phone looks rather nice!).
Link: LG CES
Source: LG Makes Connected Appliances Useful [VIDEO]
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