Gadgetory

you may have heard that scene that has begun doing appliance reviews it's true we don't focus on how the zucchini fairs in the crisper but how well these appliances are getting connected and smart that's about time basically a socket that you can power on and off with your smartphone and that's a really cool thing because you can plug anything into it and then make that into a remotely controlled device so if you wanted your porch light to come on at 6pm for you to come home it'll be there on waiting for you the whole bottle is a really smart vacuum it's got this camera on the top that is taking dozens and dozens of photographs and this helps it navigate and tell where it is where it's been and where it's going to go but now we get to the high-water mark of this refrigerator which is the LCD screen Sampson includes above the ice and water dispenser one of the things I really like about it is that when you have it just in home screen mode it'll tell you the exact temperatures of the insides of both your freezer and your refrigerator so that if there is a problem and you've lost power to one you can always tell now to my mind we're seeing three big changes around the landscape of smart appliances compared to 10 years ago when they first began to emerge the first is the mobile ecosystem everything ties back to our phones and tablets these days persistently and smart appliances will be no different that gives them a more persistent presence in our lives it also helps to make them more personal and less like well appliances the second one is less pie pie in the sky no one's talking so much anymore about the internet fridge replacing your computer perhaps now it's a more practical vision like a dry herb that will message your phone when it's time to get the clothes out before they wrinkle and then there's clouds smarts look at something like the nest thermostat most of its goodness actually comes from its cloud back in the date of the history the processing and software that's out there behind it not stuck on the wall i'm also watching the sort of wild card area around replacement cycles of white goods or major appliances most of us are happy if the thing just works and dread replacing one being the old one taken out and a new one brought in and installed mobile devices laptops never had to go through that kind of friction I also want to see how well these major appliance brands can morph themselves into tech and lifestyle brands this is new territory for them