Innovations that make tasks in the kitchen less tedious are a welcome solution anywhere in the world. You want to clean your living room while dinner is cooking without having to constantly run back and forth. Beyond multitasking, when doing your shopping at your local market or supermarket, a simple text or sms a communication with your fridge makes the shopping experience fruitful.
Kitchen appliances have now adapted smart technology that will help you manage your kitchen. At recent Consumer Electronics Show 2015 big brands showcased their latest and upcoming products that incorporate smart technology. Household brands like LG, Samsung are incorporating innovative applications in there kitchen appliances.
While smart phones popularity and sales are increasing it is still unclear how smart kitchen appliances will be received in the local market.
LG has developed an application that will enable mobile phones to chat with refrigerator. This will effectively take kitchen management to a whole new level.
According to LG’s website, HomeChat messaging service employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) LINE, the popular mobile messenger app, to let homeowners communicate, control, and monitor and share content with LG’s latest smart appliances.
Homechat application will enable users to ask simple questions like “Are there any tomatoes left?”.
This app is applicable to LG Smart Fridge, LG Smart washing machine and LG smart light oven.
The days of sprinting from the living room to the kitchen because something is burning will soon come to an end with Dacor’s Discovery iQ 48″ Dual-Fuel Range. Dacor, an American brand that is relatively unknown in Africa with presence limited to South Africa. This new range cookers is currently only available in the American market, and can be programmed to send an SMS when food is ready.
Imagine the convenience of your recipe and pot side by side trying out new recipes in the kitchen should be a flawless process. It incorporates an electronic control panel powered by Android OS, also includes a a glass panel and 7″ LCD multi touch screen.
If you are willing to spend between USD 9000 and 12000. The phone and tablet app will soon have voice activation that will enable you to turn the oven on and off, change the heat settings and timers, and switch the oven light on by just telling the app to do so.
For consumers concerned about excessive use of pesticides in food, there is Penguin Organic Food Safety Checker. A simple test will enable you to test for traces of chemicals. Penguin comes from BioSensor Laboratories, incubated by Seoul National University.
Beer lovers will definitely welcome the idea of making their own brew with the PicoBrew Zymatic® Machine. For this innovation you might want to check on what the law says about making your own beer. You can brew over 1000 batches from the machine that is about the size of a microwave.
