Okay, but why not just have a clear window, so you don’t even have to knock on the dark glass to light it up and peer inside? Apparently LG tested it, but early users complained that their fridges looked messy inside, and didn’t want to look at the clutter everytime they passed through the kitchen. Opening the door causes cool air to be lost, and the fridge to expend extra energy to re-cool the inside. Knock-On may sound superfluous - why not just open the door? - but LG cited a study that showed a lot of people open their fridges during the day for no good reason. Knock on the glass twice, and the inside lights up, turning the glass transparent and letting you see what’s inside. When the Smart Refrigerator’s screen isn’t running Windows, it turns dark. The Smart Refrigerator also comes with a neat feature called ‘Knock-On,’ which is on every fridge in the new InstaView line. If you can enable the right services and content on this particular device which interacts with every family member on a daily basis, we believe it can be very powerful.”Īt the same time, Yoo also allowed that the fridge as a family hub may only be applicable to certain countries, “When we looked at family behaviour - and this might be more for the US market - the kitchen is becoming a focal point for families when they spend time at home.” But Samsung’s fridge runs its proprietary Tizen OS, while LG runs the far more popular Windows 10, so there’s more you can potentially do with it.īut why build a computer into a fridge? When I asked Eugene Yoo, director of LG’s Cloud Center, he said, “We believe that the refrigerator has a unique role in the home, because it’s a family device. If a smart fridge with a touchscreen sounds familiar, that’s because Samsung already has one.
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