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1. 9cb14c1ec0 · 1790257028 · focus · HN ↗

   Meanwhile, my non-smart fridge continues to run just fine. Why do we need smart fridges? That was always a bad idea.

   1. weli · 1790257526 · focus · HN ↗

      I see reasons to have smart features in a fridge. Reminding you what food is going to be bad soon. Letting you know a list of recipes you can do with what food you have. Hell even being able to see and set timers without having to take my phone out. What I cannot fathom is the fact that the module running those smart features is not separated and modular enough so that basic functions like refrigerating are not dependent on an entire Android stack running.

      1. jcoder · 1790258138 · focus · HN ↗

         > Reminding you what food is going to be bad soon. Letting you know a list of recipes you can do with what food you have

         I feel like this is what people say a smart fridge _could_ be good for, but can they even do that? From what I understand the most sophisticated ones can tell you if some specific items are in your fridge, and otherwise they just do basic shit like display photos and tell the weather.

         1. Legend2440 · 1790258192 · focus · HN ↗

            Right now, no. The technology just isn't there yet.

            1. herrherrmann · 1790258652 · focus · HN ↗

               … and makers don’t have an incentive to even deliver such features, because people are already buying them?

               At least I wouldn’t know what’s stopping them from building actually-useful features, tech-wise. Or was it just always a bad idea because fridge placement is random and items are often hard to find/detect?

               1. Legend2440 · 1790258782 · focus · HN ↗

                  I don't think many people are buying them tbh.

                  The technological issue is that computer vision is hard, even after the last five years of AI progress.

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