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By Andrew Cunningham
In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how "dumb" the device in question is by nature. It's how we've ended up with stuff like this smart hair- brush, this smart air freshener, these smart ceiling fans, or this $100 pet food bowl that can order things from Amazon.
Now that phenomenon is reaching its logical end- point: during the compa- ny's CES press confer- ence today, LG market- ing VP David VanderWaal says that "starting this year" all of LG's home appliances will feature "advanced Wi-Fi connectivity." One of the flagship appli- ances that will make good on this promise is the Smart Instaview Refrigerator, a webOS- powered Internet-con- nected fridge that among other things supports integration with Amazon's Alexa service.
Alexa isn't an inherently bad fit for a refrigerator, which like the Amazon Echo itself can just sit in the corner of your kitchen awaiting your command. The main problem there is that LG hasn't announced how much this fridge will cost; it's almost certainly going to be more than the cost of adding an Amazon Echo to your current
kitchen setup or even the cost of an Echo plus a new dumb fridge that just sits there and keeps food cold without connecting to your network. Other potentially useful addi- tions include "stickers and tags" you attach
to specific items in the fridge to denote what food is stored where and when it expires, which
lets the fridge generate alerts when foods are close to spoiling. A wide- angle camera mounted inside the fridge lets you look inside your fridge remotely just in case you think you left something off your grocery list.
Things veer off track when you start talking about the fridge's other
features. For instance, you can tap twice on its 29-inch 1080p touch- screen to turn the screen "transparent" and see what's in your fridge, something that would normally require grab- bing the handle of the fridge and applying an amount of force suffi- cient to open the door. That the fridge is pow- ered by webOS also opens it up to Internet browsing and apps, just in case the experience of standing in front of your regular fridge with a phone or tablet isn't enough.
The ongoing problem with all of these Internet- connected accessories is security, or the com- plete lack thereof. There's no Windows- esque unified platform driving these things that any one company can update. Companies that make appliances are typically pretty bad about keeping them updated, especially once the accessories are a few years old. The prolifera- tion of all these difficult- to-secure endpoints makes large-scale bot-
nets easier to build. Privacy is a concern, too—even without being compromised, compa- nies can use their smart devices to serve up ads or give audio or video recordings to law enforcement.
But anyway, have fun ordering groceries by yelling at your fridge.
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