ThinQ Smart refrigerator: Talking diet fridge keeps your weight in check

By
Deborah Arthurs

Last updated at 9:20 AM on 11th January 2012

Watch out! The diet police are coming – and you will find them lurking inside your fridge.

In what some might deem a step too far into the future, LG has unveiled a high tech fridge that will tell you what to eat – and more importantly, what not to eat. 

The new ThinQ Smart refrigerator, which goes on sale in the UK for around £2,000 later this year, has an in-built dietician, which can be programmed to keep an eye on
what you’re eating – and tell you when you’ve made an unhealthy choice.

LG's Smart fridge scans every item that goes in and can suggest healthy eating options to users

LG’s Smart fridge scans every item that goes in and can suggest healthy eating options to users

Users programme their BMI and weight loss targets into the fridge, which then uses in-built smart TV and voice recognition technology to ascertain who is opening the fridge.

It can then access that person’s details and use them to suggest healthier options, recipes and meal ideas.

The fridge, billed as ‘your own Nigella
Lawson’, can even switch on a compatible oven to the correct temperature
according to the recipe it has suggested.

The diet-friendly fridge does have
benefits for those not on a health kick too. It has a special
high-speed wine-chiller that can take your favourite wine from warm to
ice cold in just eight minutes, and a beer in five.

The fridge stores users' BMI and weight loss target to ascertain what food they should be eating - and it suggests recipes too

The fridge stores users’ BMI and weight loss target to ascertain what food they should be eating – and it suggests recipes too

Technology derived
from LG air conditioners has been used in the fridge’s “blast-chiller”
drawer, which swirls chilled air to prevent ice crystals from forming.

And making shopping lists a thing of the past, a camera inside the device allows you to see what is in
your fridge from a mobile phone. And with the ThinQ Smart, mouldy food
languishing in the vegetable drawer (that area of the fridge widely known as the ‘rotter’ where salad goes to die)
will be a thing of the past.

A facility to scan the barcode of every item that goes into the fridge allows the Smart fridge to remember the expiry
date of every item inside – and send you a text when each one is
nearing its end.

LG hopes the fridge will link up to
online shopping services such as Ocado. Dr Scott On of LG said: ‘This
transforms the appliance into a food management system.’

Presenting the high tech device at the 2012 Consumer Electric Show this week, LG’s Michael Lilie says gadgets such as the Smart refrigerator – which communicate with their owners by text – will be a ‘major trend for the future.’

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I only eat butter. We should only eat the same foods that have been with Mankind since we crawled out of the seas. – Yve, UK, 11/1/2012 00:39 ~~~~~~~~~~
Yve, you are absolutely right about Butter. Most people don’t realise that margarine is only one molecule away from being PLASTIC. I suggest that readers place an nearly empty tub of margarine somewhere in their garden and don’t touch it for two or three weeks. When they then return to it, it’ll be exactly the same as the day they placed it there. Not only will no animals or insects have gone anywhere near it, even microbes and other bacteria will not have touched it. It should be carrying a ‘Hazard’ warning.

What NEXT a talking Vacuum Cleaner so when you clean the carpet it tells you that you must NOT have Butter etc .——BUT why stop there why not have all the HOUSE talking to you as you go around it,—- Just what will these NUTTERS think of NEXT just to make MONEY

You can keep on with the old low fat mantra if you like but thankfully that will become more and more discredited as time goes by.
– Stephen, London, UK, 11/1/2012 09:17 Well suit yourself old pal but please know it’s a “mantra” that is gaining more and more credence as time goes on. More and more people are ditching dietary fat as they realize that the more fat you eat … the more fat you end up wearing – it really is as simple as that. Well done on your loss of 40 lbs and five inches but answer me truthfully – were they the LAST 40 pounds and the LAST five inches you needed to lose? Be honest now! I suspect the answer is no. After seeing my weight fluctuate between 17 and 22 stone for decades I finally saw through the lies and went low fat, high (unrefined, starchy) carbohydrate and coupled this approach with a daily walk and got down to 13 and a half stone.

Shame all the biscuits are kept in the cupboard!!

@ jeremy – thanks but no thanks mate – I don’t need to allege fabrications without a shred of evidence to suit my agenda – given I’ve lost 40lbs and 5 inches off my waist myself on a LCHF diet, and improved my health markers in the process I know it works – eating butter and double cream most days, as it happens. You can keep on with the old low fat mantra if you like but thankfully that will become more and more discredited as time goes by.

This is going to help so much with food that comes out of the pantry.

I can’t see how this will work. If I want to eat something I will eat it regardless of what some machine says..

Amazing!

If you want to eat axle grease go ahead. I only eat butter. We should only eat the same foods that have been with Mankind since we crawled out of the seas. Synthetic food = synthetic people.

We need to get back to real food and throw away all the processed rubbish!! Eat butter and forget the white flour and sugar. Eat olive oil and throw away the “low-fat” yoghourts. Eat a good steak and throw away the processed sausages. Throw away all those “less than 3% fat” breakfast cereals – (why would breakfast cereals have any fat in them??) Less than 3% fat but have you checked out how much sugar they contain. Fat is not the problem – it’s the carbs!!

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