The Shopping Refrigerator of the Future is Coming

We've all heard the saying of the Yellow Pages, "Letanymore, it will also know when a product is no longer
Your Fingers Do the Walking," and that is a prettythere because it has been taken out of your
catchy slogan, but I have a better one for you; "Letrefrigerator, used up, and not returned.
Your Refrigerator Do the Shopping." In other words,It will then make a list of all the items that are needed
your refrigerator will know when it's out of certainto be replaced, and at first this technology will simply
products, and it will contact the Internet and order allprint you out your grocery list for you to take to the
the products for you at the grocery store, and youstore, or the list will be sent to your WiFi enabled HP
can either pick them up and they will all be already forPrinter. But eventually your WiFi enabled refrigerator
you, or you can have them delivered to your home,will do the shopping for you.
remember Web Van?If you think this is not possible then you should check
Now, you're probably thinking that's not a bad idea thatout some of the software they use in business
could actually work. Yes, and many of the computerwarehouses, inventory systems, and RFID integrated
scientists at MIT media Lab consider this to be thesystems for distribution. In fact, all this technology
future. Each product in your refrigerator will have eitheralready exists, and is just a matter of integrating into a
a barcode on it or an RFID chip, the refrigerator willrefrigerator near you. Please consider all this.
know when something is going stale or it's no good