Gadgetory

hi I'm Timmy Pilkington for CNET and I'm standing next to the next smart refrigerator that we've been able to get a hands-on look at this is the LG smart think L FX 3 1 9 9 5 s T and that's quite a mouthful but it's quite a refrigerator this is a 30-point seven total cubic foot refrigerator that's 20.7 and the refrigerator compartment and ten in the freezer in other words it is a huge refrigerator that may or may not fit in your kitchen if you have a built in system one of the most unique things that LG has done with this refrigerator lies in its slim space plus ice system instead of giving you an icemaker on the top shelf of your refrigerator LG promises that they'll just give you the top shelf for storage and have housed the icemaker inside the refrigerator door you might think that this widget racks with storage space on the door itself but there is a compartment to hold dawdles that nests on the outside of the icemaker I think than that the interior of the refrigerator is pretty standard there's nothing too surprising although they do offer some very interesting organizational elements that you may find useful such as three fruit and vegetable drawers and a gliding surf drawer the freezer also has some unique organizational elements and that it has two drawers that nest on top of one another and slide back under the refrigerator compartment to give you access to your larger items in the bottom portion of the freezer but the real hallmark of this LG smart think fridge is in its touch screen which rests above the ice and water dispenser and offers some really useful and functional features my favorite part about the touch screens capabilities are the fact that it can communicate with your phone via a smart think app so you can look up recipes and keep inventory of your fridge and when you run out of something or if you want to add those recipe items to your shopping list you do it through the grocery app on the screen and it will send the list to your phone where you can check it off as you get each item the screen also has multiple pages that you can choose from by swiping left to right the standard first page is your weather with a graphic depiction of what the weather is like outside but if you scan further over it'll tell you what your energy usage looks like in the refrigerator and there's also a page that will allow you to keep track of every member of your family's water intake which may or may not be useful to you as well there's a photo app that enables you to either upload photos from an SD card from your camera or directly from your iPhone using the smart think app the calendar and memo apps are pretty standard you can use your finger as a stylus to either type or handwrite a memo and post it to a page next to the calendar and to use the calendar you simply put in your Gmail information and it will access your gmail calendar and you can add and edit events from the refrigerator screen itself we'll have a full review soon where we'll have more specific information about both the performance and the features of the refrigerator but with the LG smart think I'm Katie Felton