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.
A thing that can read the expiry dates on food packages that take me 20 minutes to find because they're printed in light gray on gray background would be useful.
It would be. That was the original promise of the Family Hub+ fridges with AI Vision Inside™ technology.
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.
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 saying they aren't useful or needed. They're solutions inventing problems to solve to justify higher prices, subscription models, and data collection.
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.
It's a lot of complexity and engineering just to avoid giving food the ol' sniff test. Tech bros need to stop inventing problems for which we already have time-tested solutions.
