I admit, I was suckered into LG's more complete line, but Thinq was a false prophet. I have seen the light, and thy name is RF4289. Ok, not exactly the name I was expecting from the second coming, but perhaps it is a sign of our robot dominated future. Jokes aside, the RF4289 is a serious piece of work. It's front panel contains a UI more robust than you find on most smartphones.
You can see your twitter stream, look up recipes on Epicurious, even listen to Pandora (I'm not being sarcastic here, this actually sounds pretty useful!). And one glaring omission: no Angry Birds, seriously guys? The touch screen is located just above the ice dispenser, and looks a little small in the pictures, although they claim it to be 8 inches, but I'm not sure I don't prefer that over the big displays some other companies are touting. I just worry that the touchscreen isn't going to be as responsive after you've splashed water on it a few times. I highly suggest heading over to Engadget and checking out their gallery for more pictures of the UI in action.
I'm not sure what is running underneath, software wise. It looks a little like Android, with it's similar icons and Google Calendar integration, but if so it's definitely a heavily modified version. If that's the case, I can't wait to see what people hack into this thing.
Oh, and it appears to be a pretty nice sized refrigerator. Not that that matters.
Source: Samsung WiFi-enabled RF4289 fridge cools eats and tweets, we go hands-on
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