Computerized Refrigeration

A couple of years ago Frigidaire released their idea of a refrigerator that had a touchscreen computer on the front of the appliance. They said this computer would be internet ready. I am not sure if any company has released an appliance like this to the consumer market, but I find this innovation very interesting. It could completely change the way grocery stores and consumers communicate. Some ideas developed around this product were very interesting. For example, when I did a little research on the internet about such refrigerators, one person said that it may be possible in the future to scan the barcode of every item you put in your refrigerator. Then when you run out of that product, you tell the computer, which then sends a digital grocery list to the grocery store. Your groceries are then delivered to your home. Can you imagine a world without going to the grocery store?!??! You would also have access to online recipes. Maybe the computer could suggest recipes that it knew you already had all the ingredients that were needed to prepare the dish. Another idea that I thought of was when you were out of a product, the computer could tell you which local store had the lowest price for that particular item. This would possibly eliminate the need for circulars put in newspapers by grocers. I think that this technology could possibly be life-altering. It only makes me wonder what other appliances we could add computers to.