FUTURE REFRIGERATOR

Posted by : Muhammad Shazwan Bin Mohd Fadzilah

Matric No : 0822217

Nowadays we have discovered a refrigerator with extra sophisticated aspects such as digital frame, ice machine, television, and even radio. What kind of refrigerator would be manufactured in the upcoming ten years?

With the development of technology and science through out the time, the refrigerator could develop it self to not only making food and drinks cold, but even making a well made meal and beverage. In ten years, our very conventional refrigerator could cook our favorite menu and drinks with a press of button. How does it work?

The machine can be installed with Embedded System and even operating system, where the machine can perform many functions within the refrigerator. We can control the system with a touch screen on the external hardware. With the system, it can control the machine inside the refrigerator to cook our meal with the taste of our preference: mild, spicy, extra spicy and many more. The refrigerator has two sides , the cooking and the preserving and freezing side.

We can put the ingredients needed to cook the food in the provided space and it will automatically assign the ingredients to every menu that has been installed in the system. For an example, if we want to eat a chicken chop, we have to put certain gram of chicken, salt, cream , vegetables, oil and many more. The screen will show the nutrition facts for the food that we are about to cook

The system OS provides a friendly user GUI so that we can create our food and drinks profile and save it in the system’s hard drive. When we have put all the ingredients, we press the ‘Chicken Chop’ on the screen and wait for up to 15 minutes until it cooked. Together with that, the refrigerator external hardware has a USB port to connect to the computer with the Internet and even WiFi2 so that it can be updated with new food menu that we like on the refrigerator’s official website.

Finally, the refrigerator can be accessed from any computer with internet. For example, we got home late, so we can cook out dinner with the internet at the office, so that when we got home, our dinner is already cooked!

EFFECT ON SOCIETY

Positive

- save time

- improve in marketing

- makes our life more organized

- can have quality food every time

Negative

- Makes the society less productive

- Rely too much on the machine

- People especially women will lose interest in cooking.

- Restaurants business will be declined

Challenge of the technology

- People will find it hard to have confident on the machine afraid it will be hard to control as they only used to personal computer and lap top.

- The price is too high, people might as well cook by themselves.

- Afraid it will create division among society.

- People are not confident with the quality of the food made by the machine.