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Internet Fridge chills with Windows 98
News Which gives LG's Internet Fridge a very high value indeed -- from the moment it arrived it has been the centre of attention. You can see a photo of the Internet Fridge here. Summer 2002 will be the Summer Of The Internet Fridge -- and we're here to...
[July 4, 2002, 16:30]
The latest cool gadget - an Internet fridge
News LG Electronics believes it will be the first to market globally with its range of Internet home appliances, including fridge, microwave, washing machine and air conditioning system, rolling them out in the UK and Mexico a month ahead of its...
[May 14, 2002, 11:28]
Toshiba tipped to unwrap e-fridge
News LG Electronics has already created an Internet Fridge, complete with an LCD touchscreen and audio speakers, that can surf the Net, access email and even play MP3s. Ericsson recently organised a trial in which 50 families were supplied with a...
[January 3, 2002, 15:05]
Screenfridge gets warm reception
News Fifty families were supplied with a Screenfridge -- a standard fridge that also had a built-in touch-sensitive colour screen and an ADSL connection to the Internet. This is not the first time that a Web-enabled fridge has been built.
[April 26, 2001, 15:28]
Internet fridges: Virus magnets?
News Some Internet-enabled appliances, such as the LG Internet fridge, pictured here, run on Windows 98. Indeed, the LG internet fridge runs a virus checker at all times, so from that point of view it is as protected as any other PC from viruses...
[July 12, 2002, 14:54]
'Internet family' moves into shop window
News The £6,000 Internet fridge is full of digital communication and entertainment features including a 15.1-inch touch-screen, a video and stills camera, handwriting recognition, nutritional data, food storage tracking, TV tuner, MP3 player, Internet...
[May 20, 2002, 13:12]
Friday
Blog Our Internet Fridge is settling in, and has become a firm friend of all. The fact that many of us are now spending a good deal of time listening to voices from a fridge and replying would normally be referred to competent medical authorities, but I...
[July 5, 2002, 15:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Because if you put wheels on the thing, a Wi-Fi card for connectivity and some sensors for steering, your internet fridge becomes a whole new being. You may remember our somewhat askance review of the LG Internet Refrigerator where we wondered out...
[April 23, 2004, 17:50]
Home networking spreads round globe
News Although the fridge is too expensive to sell widely at S$19,999 (£7,047.49), this maiden attempt by LG signals the company's interest in network appliances. Home networking services connect different information gadgets, home appliance products and...
[August 8, 2003, 10:25]
Bluetooth: Clever tech will invade our homes...
News Washing machine, fridge freezer and HiFi manufacturers have joined mobile phone and notebook computer makers in developing Bluetooth-enabled prototype products, amid scepticism that the standard will not work in the real world.
[April 15, 1999, 16:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But seeing as the companies concerned seem to have convinced themselves that people will be happy to pay many hundreds of quid extra on the price of the fridge and £63 a month thereafter, I think there's something stronger than mineral water in...
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
News Schmooze: Gaming gets ugly
News A US company has come up with what must be the "killer app" of home robotics, namely an artificially intelligent mechanoid with just enough brainpower to shuttle beers from fridge to television. Is it the end of innovation on the Internet?
[May 24, 2002, 15:27]
Lacey's Paper Round
News They reason that by plugging your fridge, or your central heating system, or VCR into the Net that new value can be added to the device, and that the cost of maintenance and fault repair can be reduced.
[September 1, 1998, 11:02]
O2's Joggler: the digital fridge door
Blog In both senses it is worse than a paper calendar on the fridge door, as at least one of those is in eyesight all the time and you can designate start and end points for commitments. She organises family life using the Internet and Joggler, blithely...
[June 2, 2009, 14:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog News that a Japanese company has produced a fridge with a Pentium II in the door provokes a ribald flight of fantasy. It doesn't take long to divine the reason for this peculiar blast of inverse publicity: if Internet Explorer was doing as well as...
[May 2, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News News that a Japanese company has produced a fridge with a Pentium II in the door provokes a ribald flight of fantasy. It doesn't take long to divine the reason for this peculiar blast of inverse publicity: if Internet Explorer was doing as well as...
[May 2, 1998, 6:00]
Future mobile devices the size of a fridge
News In the future mobile phones will be the size of a fridge, weigh around 200lbs and cost approximately £1bn. This opens up a world of possibilities for users, the mobile industry and Internet firms alike.
[March 24, 2000, 6:30]
Digital photo frames infected
Blog Your smart fridge could eventually be a conduit to your data. A linked idea has been around for a while - as devices become 'smarter' and are hooked up to the internet, they also become a means to subvert computer systems.
[January 30, 2008, 16:39]
2002 shows its silly side
News And if you were stuck in (road) traffic, perhaps you should've forked out several thousand pounds for an Internet Fridge so you could look up the traffic reports while supping on the first coffee of the day.
[December 30, 2002, 6:14]
Opera Unite: screenshots review
Reviews Just as you might tack notes to your refrigerator, Opera Unite lets you jot notes in its Fridge environment. Similar to Internet Explorer 8, Opera's Unite platform lets you share music across computers, this time with a direct link.
[June 18, 2009, 9:15]
