Gadgetory

welcome to the world of tomorrow look at how much this dishwasher home get settied I'll walk away cook a roast my electronic they picked up the dirt you never knew you had the so home appliances have been a big part of CES over the past four decades or so right back to the time when they were aspirational devices that made a big difference to people's lifestyles and that's not going away you think that in the 21st century we'd have solved the problems of how to chill your beer or wash your clothes but that's not stopping companies trying to infuse these products with new ideas and someone inevitably this tends to be inspired by mobile we're seeing companies make major announcements for so-called smart appliances that integrate functionality such as touchscreens a home control Wi-Fi remote and a whole bunch of other features the frankly it probably never occurred to you to ask for but the real question is are these companies doing anything to actually improve the core functionality of these appliances like will sticking a touchscreen on your fridge keep your food fresh for longer will NFC tagging help you cook better food Samsung and LG say it will you can do things like keep track of what's in your fridge and get recommendations and one to cook the memo app for these touchscreen fridges lets you write notes on the fridge so leaving sticky notes on the door is a thing of the past and pretty unconvinced by a lot of this functionality there are people really willing to put in the time to catalog every last detail with the stock in the fridge is it really more convenient to look up a recipe in your phone and then tag your Robin with NFC instead of just entering in the timing yourself so these hyper expensive fridges washing machines and dryers and so on they're undoubtedly really good at what they do and the companies do talk in terms of trademark names like their speed spray power wash and true steam technology but really they're not the headline feature we went to higher on the other hand and although they did show up a wireless charging blender they showed up some other things which proved that the company is focusing on improving their core appliance technology in areas such as energy easy to be the noise performance their 3d washing prototype for example has a ridiculous name but it shows the company has its priorities in order and when I'm buying my next washing machine I think that's the kind of thing i'll be looking for rather than whether i can turn it off with Wi-Fi on you