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...into perspective by offering me an example of how it will simplify our lives. Imagine, they say, that it's Saturday afternoon and you're feeling hungry. So you pull out that webpad and go to Whirlpool's website (the company providing all the appliances in Cisco's demo kitchen) and look for a list of recipes. Click on the one you like, and you get a rundown of the ingredients required. As you have a "smart" fridge that includes a bar-code reader and can therefore tell what's in the cartons inside, you can check - still online, without...
...there are plenty of useful things I could do with the technology that fills the Cisco home. On a hot summer's day, I could phone my air-conditioning system and tell it to switch itself on half an hour before I arrive. I could have carpenters fix a kitchen shelf and monitor their progress from my office, using a webcam. And I'd love to have a webpad that allows me to access the Internet wirelessly from anywhere in the house, including the john...
...demo home, in Ericsson's Stockholm compound. The engineers there thought it was the coolest thing in the world - a fridge with a full-fledged computer built into its door, with a large screen and an Internet connection. I recall being very skeptical. Who surfs the Net from the kitchen, for crying out loud...
Well, Rikke Clausen does. In fact, she constantly uses the PC built into her fridge. Clausen, 34, is on a break from her job at the Girl Guides to care for her two young sons. In her home, the kitchen, dining area and living room all merge seamlessly into a whole: one corner serves as the boys' playroom. In this setting, the Screenfridge makes perfect sense. "I can surf the Net, cook and keep an eye on my children at the same time," says Clausen. "If I had to use the family computer, I'd have to go into...
...have no kids and my kitchen is a separate (and tiny) room, where my wife and I cook steamy, oily Indian meals. Would I consider putting a $3,000 fridge-cum-computer in there? Never. Still, I figured out a while back that the world doesn't revolve around me, so I'll grant that some people - maybe many people - would love to have a Screenfridge. Or a Screenwashing-machine. Or a Screenvacuum-cleaner. Me, I'll just take that house in San José if they ever put it on the market - at a deep discount, of course...