Our home is getting smarter and smarter, but why? There are many reasons to buy a smart home appliance like an AI washing machine that cleans clothes better, but there comes a time when the benefits aren’t so practical.
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The new refrigerator presented by LG fits this description. To offer some context, LG already offers smart refrigerators, with integrated screens and the ThinQ platform to control it from our smartphone.
The party fridge
The MoodUp presented today at IFA is somewhat different from these models. It’s also smart and has many of the same features LG has implemented in recent years, but it focuses more on multimedia functions. Yes, multimedia, in a refrigerator.
What really sets this MoodUp apart from others is that its doors are covered with LED panels, able to change color. By default, when the panels are “off”, a boring combination of two levels of gray is displayed, and in this mode it’s not much different from a conventional fridge.
But connect it to the ThinQ app, and suddenly you can choose from 22 different colors for the top panel and 19 colors for the bottom; we can customize the refrigerator exactly as we want with our favorite combinations, or by applying predetermined color themes with names like “Season” (based on the seasons of the year), “Place”, “Mood” or ” Pop”.
This should already be enough to put this model in the list of the craziest devices, but LG is not satisfied with this, and it has also integrated a Bluetooth speaker that can be connected to our mobile like any other. The difference is that the sound comes from our fridge, of course; In addition, the sound that we reproduce through the speaker can be synchronized with the LED panels so that they work as a display and change color to the rhythm of the music.
Although we’ve already said that this function is not so practical, the truth is that LG has found clever ways to take advantage of the panels. For example, if the door remains open for too long, the panel flashes to warn us that we must close it if we don’t want to lose the cold air. It even has built-in motion sensors, which allow the panels to light up when someone enters the kitchen, or act as a light guide if we’ve gotten up at night for something.
All that aside, it’s still an LG fridge and therefore includes the usual AI and voice recognition features. The LG MoodUp doesn’t yet have a release date or price.
