LG's magical sliding fridge drawers: how did we ever live without them?
By Paul Miller 
posted July 31st 2009 11:24AM
posted July 31st 2009 11:24AM
posted July 31st 2009 11:24AM
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Wait... dont tell me... Next year model, you will be able to open it via iPhone?
correction: via the new Chocolate
No. Next year's model will send you a Tweet when you are low on milk.
They should use this technology to open and close garage doors... make sure you add the safety feature, wouldn't want anyone to get cut in half. Although that would be cool on Maximum Overdrive 2.
How is this energy efficient... People can't even open drawers on their own anymore??? CRAPGADGET.
What's so amazing about this. It's just an oversized CD drive...well, a food drive.
I don't care how nice LG's are, they are a pain to repair and I will never buy another one again. Unlike most appliance companies, LG pours an epoxy type liquid onto their circuit boards that hardens and prevents anyone from doing any repair work on them, even if it's a small fuse replacement.
This of course forces consumers to go through LG authorized repair which costs 3X more than some local GE repair guy that would have been able to fix your fridge using any GE part.
10minutehobo, I had exactly the same thought.
Josh: Shouldn't it send you a Tweet when you are low on *eggs*?
but can it play doom?
Fridgegadget. HA HA HA!
It's the coolest site ever!!!
Looks like I'm the only one disappointed that Fridgegadget isn't a real site : (
Awesome! Just what I've always wanted!
...until you own one and learn that stacking all of your frozen items on top of each other and having to bend over to sort through them for a freeze pop is not very fun.
Get the panasonic one, it's better, has deeper drawers...
Engadget, these things have been sold in japan for ages, only reason why you never hear about them is because it's more or less a given to have some gimmick like that.
I need twelve of them. How much?
3299 dollars its on the site
hell yeah, me too!!!
I guess engadget has hit rock bottom when they start writing about refrigerators. What's next Toasters? Washing Machines? Dishwashers?
actually waffle irons.
Actually we should get ready for a wave of KIRF product stories.
They already had an article on toasters
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/if-microsoft-made-a-toaster/
Because we don't spend enough money on refrigerators as it is.
This one keeps all your food cold for $600
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmun8GK6o2c
I haven't read this story, but I saw the word LG so I assume its another iPhone ripoff. Shame on LG.
but LG doesn't just make phones, they're quite a large electronics and appliance company. I haven't used their their LG uwave, washer & dryer, gas stove, and LG whatever... Any other users? Maybe Apple should also join in to this appliance biz. Can't wait to see what how Apple industrial design is applied to these mundane electronics and appliances.
You mean sort of like how....oh I don't know, the iPhone ripped off of the LG Prada?
You're the kind of fanboy that gives other fanboys a bad rep -- you know the type:
Apple invented touchscreen
Apple invented Video recording
Apple invented (insert some inane, uninformed, ignorant, observation here)
Absolutely wondrous missing of sarcasm there
@MatthewJ- I appreciated your comment.
I'm waiting for a Meizu fridge.
I'll wait for next years model, it'll have an app store.
Sounds like a party in there... not too many people getting laid at the LG stand.
This will talk to twitter very soon...... All of us fatasses will be found beaten and sterilized.....
Sadness is a empty fridge.
Uncontrollable . . . urge . . . to . . . close . . . fridge . . . doors. Can . . . not . . . let . . . cold . . .escape.
/has to scroll away
LG, no thanks. They were Goldstar before they changed their name. Remember, they sold cheap crap plastic radios in Kmart.
The motorized drawers are just a gimmick. Something else to go wrong, break and cost you a small fortune to repair I'm sure.
"Honey, what's for Dinner?"
"Nothing!"
"Why nothing, the kids and I are starving."
"The freezer drawer motor on the fridge is broken and I can't open them!"
"Crap!"
Nissan/Infiniti was Datsun before they changed their name. Would you turn your nose up at a G37?
Yes, the drawers are gimmicky, and the price tag is ridiculous, but don't hate on a company because they made a product you didn't like under a different name 10 years ago.
That being said, I wouldn't buy one of these fridges, because a $500 fridge keeps food just as cold as a $3300 fridge.
LG has come a long way. They make very solid, innovative appliances these days. My house if full of LG appliances with no issues.
Yes I would and I would take a 240z in it's place.
@caleb
I would take a Nissan GTR in its place, any one really I'm not picky. R32, R33, or R34, hell I could even live with a RH drive one.
Remember when Steve Jobs and his buddy went to HP to beg them for a job and got refused?
I still hate his attitude, but change happens.
I have an LG french door refrigerator. Piece of crap. Would never buy again along with the front load washer/dryer combo.
Should I be impressed?
How do we live without em?
because we dont have that bunch of money to change my fridge every year
Looks cool but is so expensive and dumb.
Imagine your toddle pressing that button, he we'll be pushed by the drawer.
I bet he won't push the button again though.
Oh no, we'll be pushed by the drawer!!!
Have you even seen the video. It has safety features built in.
Not that I don't think it's pretty useless. Useful for disabled people maybe.
I hope there's a paperclip hole for manual eject. And I hope said paperclip is included in the box.
old news is old
go to japan and check out the home appliances floor of any major electronics store and you go back home feeling like you got ripped off on that new fridge/washing machine/etc you just got
Great... One more F-ING thing that can break on the fridge. It's not they ever solved the whole reliability problems with the icemakers.