| We've all heard the saying of the Yellow Pages, "Let | | | | anymore, it will also know when a product is no longer |
| Your Fingers Do the Walking," and that is a pretty | | | | there because it has been taken out of your |
| catchy slogan, but I have a better one for you; "Let | | | | refrigerator, 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 certain | | | | to be replaced, and at first this technology will simply |
| products, and it will contact the Internet and order all | | | | print you out your grocery list for you to take to the |
| the products for you at the grocery store, and you | | | | store, or the list will be sent to your WiFi enabled HP |
| can either pick them up and they will all be already for | | | | Printer. 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 that | | | | out some of the software they use in business |
| could actually work. Yes, and many of the computer | | | | warehouses, inventory systems, and RFID integrated |
| scientists at MIT media Lab consider this to be the | | | | systems for distribution. In fact, all this technology |
| future. Each product in your refrigerator will have either | | | | already exists, and is just a matter of integrating into a |
| a barcode on it or an RFID chip, the refrigerator will | | | | refrigerator near you. Please consider all this. |
| know when something is going stale or it's no good | | | | |