LG Lifestyle MG-5682NL Internet-ready microwave oven
By Marc Perton 
posted March 3rd 2005 4:15AM
posted March 3rd 2005 4:15AM
When we heard that LG had an Internet-enabled microwave oven, we actually got a little excited, imagining a more practical and affordable version of the TMIO intelligent oven — you know, the $7,500 combo oven/fridge that you can program remotely over the net to have dinner ready when you get home. Alas, the LG Lifestyle MG-5682NL is just a microwave that lets you download recipes from an LG web site. Woo hoo. For the £100 this model is going for in the U.K., you can pick up a pretty good cookbook, and still have enough left for a high-end microwave.
[Thanks, John]
they had an internet fridge at CES.
i was hoping it was the kind of networked fridge that had cameras inside monitoring the food. so you could check from work if you needed eggs or something. or like used RFID tags on food to give you an exact inventory anywhere you could check like it's built-in web server. or would send you email alerts if someone drinks your beer when you're away from the fridge.
so i was pretty excited about this future fridge.
though ... upon questioning them about it... it also appears to just be able to browse online and get recipes.
LAME.
there are some pieces of technology we just don't need. the ones that make us lazier, for instance. if you've got so much money that you spend it on a fridge that monitors your "egg levels", your priorities are out of whack. way out.
true...but think about how much heat (thermally speaking) one wastes by rummaging through the fridge just to see what there is to snack on -- and then often times, you still walk away empty-handed.
refridgerators aren't very efficient machines, and opening and closing them causes the fridge to work that much harder, causing a lot of power waste.
If yer dying to network your kitchen
http://www.beyondconnectedhome.com/products/microwave.html
look around here....
I love the idea of a networked home, and the kitchen is an important part of the home. But is the microwave an important part of the kitchen?
LG know that to get the ball rolling on this 'Networked Home' untopia that ever appliance will be networked. Some other company would only have beatten them to it or customers would have noticed a gap if they didn't make it.
It's a £100 product, which is affordable and gets you on the ladder to buying the rest of the 'set'.
Well done LG for making it affordable.