I think there's some potential here, with regards to keeping track of when things were added/might go bad. At least for me, who easily forgets things until it's too late.
But you won't find that here, and it's not going to be coming in an update. This fridge can't properly identify fruits and veggies, let alone anything in any sort of packaging.
As I demo the thing, it keeps taking snapshots of the back of my head and insists that the fridge is just packed full of kiwis.
> full of kiwis
Also this is utterly hilarious to me.
If a Fridge had a barcode scanner built into it, that might be a start.
I was only commenting on the usefulness of such features, not on whether companies would also abuse that access for more data; that is an issue, but a separate one.
I'm a software engineer. I like technology. But there is absolutely no reason for a fridge or a washing machine to be "smart". I just makes them worse, not better.
I'm a software engineer who likes technology too. I think such things would be useful. I guess I'm just objectively wrong?
And like... food going bad is a problem that actually exists, so I'm not sure what you mean by "inventing problems"