Space-age Hitachi refrigerators spray your eats with antioxidants
We won't even pretend to act like we're fluent in Japanese, but based on our best understanding of machine translation, Hitachi has a few new refrigerators that will actually spritz your food with antioxidants and vitamins to keep things exceptionally fresh and clean (clean). The R-Y6000 and R-Y5400 will evidently sense what types of foods are stored in what compartments, after which a specified amount of nutrients will be emitted in order to keep things from spoiling too soon. We aren't too keen on a robotic fridge having the power to douse our grub with whatever chemical it pleases, but so long as it uses FDA-approved vitamins, minerals, HGH and anabolic steroids, we suppose we'll live.[Thanks, Penny]


















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
linuxamp @ Sep 1st 2008 4:24AM
That thing would take up 1/2 of my Tokyo mansion (in Japan mansion = apartment).
By the way, what's "exceptionally fresh and clean (clean)"? I don't get it.
phanbouy @ Sep 1st 2008 4:25AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Fresh,_So_Clean
LondonConsultant @ Sep 1st 2008 6:54AM
It may be big and shiny (shiny), but I wonder if it also fluoridates ice cubes and water (water)...
phanbouy @ Sep 1st 2008 4:24AM
im in ur freezrz, kemikalizing ur f0odz
Patriks7 @ Sep 1st 2008 4:35AM
dude your old avatar was so much better :
phanbouy @ Sep 1st 2008 4:40AM
@Patriks7
no one fucks with da Murray:
http://www.hbo.com/conchords/
BigD145 @ Sep 1st 2008 1:36PM
Keeping it fake, one food group at a time.
Ignatius @ Sep 1st 2008 4:29AM
Sweet, now if something in the antioxidants goes back, the whole family can get food poisoning together!
Dylan @ Sep 1st 2008 4:31AM
@ phanbouy
Win! ^_^
If I were a ninja I would so put ninja-grade poisons in those things. I'd be a lazy ninja, I'd try to avoid direct conflicts.
/endrealizationofwastedyearsnotbecomingninja
Dylan @ Sep 1st 2008 4:34AM
Sorry, me again. :S
Is it just me or do those look like the biggest servers ever.
To put any future comments to rest: If those were servers they'd be able to play both Doom and Crysis, at the same time.....while running Vista Ultimate......
v3xx @ Sep 1st 2008 5:43AM
ha thats funny. can it run vista. i need vista for computer classes (xp and os 10 arent allowed) and im nervous that my may 07 macbook with 4 gigs wont handle it. my computer coldboots leopard in 20 seconds but vmware couldnt even handle xp, with 1.5 gigs allotted to just xp. off topic i know but i dont have any computer geek friends who's shoulder i can cry on.
monkfishbandana @ Sep 1st 2008 6:14AM
"If those were servers they'd be able to play both Doom and Crysis, at the same time.....while running Vista Ultimate......"
Why?
A: Your comment is stupid.
B: If they were servers, why the hell would you assume you could play two high-requirement games and an operating system?
C: I think you meant supercomputer.
v3xx @ Sep 1st 2008 6:51AM
wow monkfishbandana
you're such a loser. do you not have any friends and all you can do is make fun of people? let me guess bad attention is better than no attention? the fact is you knew what he meant so lay the fuck off. jack offs like you ruin the internet for everyone. you're probably some know it all with aspergers and thinks everyone els is an idiot. i bet you're the kind of guy who points his speakers out the window and saves every beer he's ever had. go get laid, and im not talking about chris hanson.
phanbouy @ Sep 1st 2008 4:41AM
dude...this site is 99% dudes... you're spamming the wrong crowd, Romanian
pfromg @ Sep 1st 2008 5:13AM
Point being , just because the FDA gives something the ok, doesn't mean its good for you
I have about as much trust in that FDA as I do in the private the banking mafia cartel (otherwise know as the IRS) .Thats no trust at all.
So having an FDA approved chemical sprayed on my food, while I sleep, is just not gonna happen.
The idea is disgusting.
A.C.E.R. @ Sep 1st 2008 5:18AM
WTF pretty much sums it up for me.
pfromg @ Sep 1st 2008 5:27AM
no , he is from Russia. Romanians cant spell.
Alternatively he could be a gay Lithuanian.
However there is a small chance hes a straight guy from America who has to pretend to be a girl in order to promote his pathetic website.
Pretending to be a girl in a forum...........is about as low as you can go on the scumbag scale.
p3ngwin @ Sep 1st 2008 5:36AM
hang on a sec....
this fridge MAKES nutrients, and then sprays them on your food?
if this fridge makes food already? why put food in it?
)law( @ Sep 1st 2008 5:58AM
All fun and games till it's hacked to spray externally and to spray acid. Also to renamed Fridge bot master of burning human flesh...
Jon Doe. @ Sep 1st 2008 6:11AM
Is it bad that before reading the title I thought that was the funkiest full sized tower case I ever saw, but loved the color.
Neolight @ Sep 1st 2008 6:47AM
Wake me up when they make these larger with an extra compartment for sleeping and an internet connection--- then I really will be living the Matrix. It will be worth it to save gas money, plus my cubemates at work are getting on my damn nerves anyway....
http://neolighthair.com
Snorre @ Sep 1st 2008 9:32AM
I for one welcome our acid-spraying refrigerator overlords.
takamaru @ Sep 2nd 2008 11:27AM
Word.
krepitor @ Sep 1st 2008 1:33PM
ou really trust the FDA?
I thought we knew by now that the FDA is controlled by Big Pharma.
This country is in the verge of selling it's self completely to
corporations, and you trust those people? with your health?
F@%#$ NO way!
read some articles in here and let me know if you don't scare the poo out of you.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FDAinDrugTrial.php
happy_penguin @ Sep 1st 2008 3:28PM
Ummm, WHY?!
willow_twf @ Sep 1st 2008 6:14PM
i've long been a fan of engadget. and i've long thought about posting blithe little comments on some of the better posts. the Outkast allusion in this post sealed the deal for me.
i rule @ Sep 1st 2008 6:15PM
oukast reference ftw.
Tian @ Sep 1st 2008 11:14PM
When I looked at the picture and read "Space-age Hitachi..." I thought, hey, cool, shiny computers.
takamaru @ Sep 2nd 2008 11:26AM
Finally, I don't have to eat vegetables to get my vitamin M.