Like every year, CES announcements are starting to appear as the end of the year approaches. Samsung is among the first to get the ball rolling with a refrigerator that proudly sports a 32-inch Full HD display. Why ? Because…
As New Year’s Eve inevitably approaches, CES 2023 is quietly positioning itself in the starting blocks. An event synonymous with avalanche announcements, mad rush for new products, and sometimes also a touch of aberration.
Samsung has just opened the floodgates and released a first line of new products. It all starts with home automation, and a new member of its Family Hub range, launched in 2016. This is a new Bespoke refrigerator. In addition to keeping your dairy products cool and preserving your vegetables, this device has a 32-inch Full HD screen, “which more than doubles the 21.5-inch display area” which fitted last year’s models, proudly explains the Korean giant…
Such a big screen on your refrigerator, why? Very good question, especially at a time when we force ourselves to reduce our energy consumption and possibly try to spare the planet more. In the United States, this panel will allow you to watch more than 190 television channels for free, in picture-in-picture mode. Of course, this display surface will also be used for multitasking. You will be able to search for recipes while listening to music, or control your other connected household appliances, thanks to a dedicated widget, while watching a news channel.
It will not have escaped you that the screen is positioned vertically. It is “optimized for vertical format videos provided by major social media platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok.
Because obviously this refrigerator is connected to the Internet, how else? A connection that will also allow it to give you access to your photo libraries in the cloud, such as Google Photos or OneDrive.
The Korean giant specifies that in the United States the service Amazon Your Essentials has been integrated, in order to easily order the most common products that your household consumes. They will then appear on the widget on the home screen and can be ordered with a click.
The press release does not say anything about the type of cold produced (ventilated, stirred, etc.), nor about its storage capacity in liters or even its consumption. Is it Matter compatible? Benefit from intelligent algorithm to consume less? How much will it cost? You will have understood that it is only worth in this case mainly for its gigantic screen. It is not said either if this model will be available in France.
Are you fascinated? U.S. too. Because that’s also a bit like CES, a sort of mad race forward towards a future that we don’t need. We will obviously leave you alone to judge on another point: doesn’t the proliferation of this type of product simply risk depriving us of a future? Infinite growth in a finite world? Yes, finished.
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