Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating

I saw a fridge that had an app so you could control it from anywhere.

My requirements for a fridge are remarkably simple, to the point the only practical use I could think of an app was alarm that I'd left the door open or something.

(If this particular app did have a door-open alarm, it wasn't on the list of features. It did say you could adjust the temperature from your office. A location I'm often worrying about the fridge.)

>>billpg+m2
know what innovation i want? a smart camera inside that can scan a label and remember the expiration date...then later on notice if i've used it or not and remind me to cook it/eat it if nearing expiration

>>0xDEAD+na
That would be useful, however expiration dates are often printed so badly and in all kinds of locations that it seems difficult to make that work reliably. Also people wouldn’t want photos of their fridge contents being uploaded to a cloud AI all the time.

>>layer8+8c
I have the solution for those labels, even if that hype is over for quite a while now: RFID tags! /s

>>hef198+Ad
Can somebody enlighten me why the above statement was sarcastic and why it was downvoted?

Aren't RFID tags on all groceries a viable solution to make product info available to a fridge?

>>master+Sq
Because RFID labels are orders of magnitide more expensive than bar codes and printed labels. The groccery margins are simply to small for that. Hence the sarcastic comment of using expensive tech (that had its own hype curve in the early 2000s), to solve the how-do-I-know-whats-in-my-fridge-without-opening-it problem.

>>hef198+uM
IF RFID was useful for other purposes it would be worth the small cost (scale can bring RFID costs down - it would cost more than bar codes, but potentially can bring enough logistical benefits that overall it is cheaper). However so far the logistical benefits can't be realized because you can't be 100% sure you read all the tags in a room.

>>bluGil+JY
Mass readability is one of the reasons why logistics isn't using RFID tags atva global scale. Cost is another, and a major one.

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