There’s a new concept fridge being developed that can offer you ideas about recipes based on the items of food you have inside. But of course it can’t know what items it holds inside by itself; you have to enter that information into a touchscreen display. A touch screen panel mounted in the door lets you enter the ingredients when you buy them, and delete them as you use them, thereby creating an inventory of what’s inside. It then uses this information to come up with recipe suggestions, and can even deliver step-by-step spoken directions to guide you through the cooking process.
This all sounds great as far as it goes, although manually inputting the data seems a bit tedious. What if it had a scanner that could read the register tape from your shopping trip? That would make things much easier, and would allow it to include non-refrigerated items in your overall inventory.
This all sounds great as far as it goes, although manually inputting the data seems a bit tedious. What if it had a scanner that could read the register tape from your shopping trip? That would make things much easier, and would allow it to include non-refrigerated items in your overall inventory.
Source: DVICE.
