LG’s Smart Fridge Is Giving Customers A Guilt Trip
Smart home appliances can often prove to be equally as annoying as they are useful, as one LG smart fridge owner recently found out and explained.
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LG smart fridges can guilt-trip their owners for opening the door too often, according to one Twitter user. LG was one of the original pioneers of smart appliances, with the company’s first internet fridge unveiled in 2000. Since then, smart appliances have exploded in popularity, thanks to their ability to remotely tell owners the temperature of their food, when ice is ready, and when their laundry is finished. While a convenient addition to one’s daily life, many owners probably wouldn’t expect their fridge to routinely email them.
The current smart fridges by LG are linked to the ‘ThinQ’ application. The app is compatible with many of the company’s products and allows the user to remotely control their smart appliances in the one place. Dishwashers, ovens, and washing machines are each able to be remotely controlled and set on routine timers through the free application. The app will also inform users when appliances are switched on, provide them with status alerts, and troubleshoot issues. The app can even be used as a TV remote for LG televisions.
However, according to a hilarious Tweet by Dan Hon, the application has been routinely sending emails, with one complaining about the fridge door being opened too often. Given a red alert for excessive use, the email Mr. Hon received explained that continuing to open the fridge so frequently could affect the set temperature of food, the noise produced, and ice output. However, what the patronizing fridge failed to realize is that Mr. Hon shared the fridge with others, including children. As the Twitter thread went on to reveal, this was only one of many emails sent by the fridge.
wtf our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times in the past month pic.twitter.com/MPa2cPHhCC
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Emails included praising the owners for being eco-friendly and saving the environment with their water consumption. The Fridge also sent a performance review…for using a fridge. This is in addition to offering performance rewards in the form of badges for meeting fridge door-opening quotas. The appliance didn’t stop there, either. Mr. Hon also received an email asking if any of this information was useful. Essentially, wanting feedback on its feedback.
It would seem that this is far from Mr. Hon’s first experience of smart appliances providing their own, and unrequested, feedback. In the same Twitter thread, Mr. Hon highlighted an LG washing machine-related email which offered life advice by advising to spend time with friends and family. Mr. Hon’s Withings smart scale had also previously sent a congratulatory email for losing 26 lbs. in one month. Admirable if true, except Mr. Hon’s child had stepped on the scale fooling the ‘smart’ technology. The same scales also congratulated Mr. Hon’s wife for losing weight after giving birth. While LG smart technology continues to grow and evolve to make people’s lives more comfortable through convenience, it is still hilarious to watch technology occasionally not grasp the realities of daily life.
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