Invasive Amazon.com now wants to monitor your refrigerator and track everything you eat
by: Ethan Huff
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, January 12, 2017
As part of a joint project with Amazon.com, LG Electronics is planning to unveil a new “smart” refrigerator equipped with cameras and other spying equipment designed to monitor what people eat and keep track of their food purchasing habits. The refrigerator will reportedly work in tandem with Amazon’s “Echo” device to listen to, watch and track not only what’s inside the refrigerator, but also how people use it — all in the name of providing customers “a pleasurable cooking and dining experience,” of course.
At the recent CES 2017 expo event in Las Vegas, the Korean tech giant announced the “InstaView” fridge as the latest in cutting-edge food storage for the modern world. Equipped with a 29-inch, high-definition (HD) touchscreen display on the door, the InstaView fridge is basically a computer-slash-robot that can create shopping lists, check the weather and even set cooking timers. According to the online edition of the Daily Mail, it can even send text message notifications to users’ smartphones informing them of what needs to be purchased from the store.
Don’t feel like opening the door of the InstaView fridge to see what’s inside? No worries. The interior cameras can take a live scan and show you right on the HD display what’s there, a feature that LG claims prevents energy from being wasted — even though the camera and display both require energy to perform this function. The InstaView fridge also has its own built-in operating system that a family can use to leave each other notes or instructions, all of which the fridge itself uses to “learn” and customize features over time.
“Our Smart InstaView Door-in-Door refrigerator will allow users to enjoy their kitchen experience like never before,” announced Song Dae-Hyun, LG’s head of home appliances, before an eager tech crowd in Vegas. (Related: Stay up to date on electronic devices, privacy and surveillance technology at Glitch.news)
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