Samsung Unveils AI-Powered, Screen-Enabled Home Appliances (engadget.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/30/0421248/samsung-unveils-ai-powered-screen-enabled-home-appliances
- Source link: https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/samsungs-2025-bespoke-appliances-are-going-all-in-on-ai-020018377.html
But the refrigerators are part of a larger "AI Home" lineup of screen-enabled appliances with advanced AI features, and Engadget got to [1]see them all together this weekend at Samsung's Bespoke AI conference in Seoul, Korea:
> The centerpiece of the Bespoke line remains [2]Samsung's 4-door French-Door refrigerator , which is now available with two different-sized screens. There's a model with a smaller 9-inch screen that starts at $3,999 or one with a massive 32-inch panel called the Family Hub+ for $4,699. The former is ostensibly designed for people who want something a bit more discreet but still want access to Samsung's smart features, which includes widgets for your calendar, music, weather, various cooking apps and more. Meanwhile, the larger model is for families who aren't afraid of having a small TV in their face every time they open their fridge. You can even play videos from TikTok on it, if that's what you're into....
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> For cooking, Samsung's matte glass induction cooktops are mostly the same, but its Bespoke 30-inch single ($3,759) and double ($4,649) wall ovens have...you guessed it, more AI. In addition to a 7-inch display, there are also cameras and sensors inside the oven that can recognize up to 80 different recipes to provide optimal cooking times. But if you prefer to go off-script and create something original, Samsung says the oven will give you the option to save the recipe and temperature settings after cooking the same dish five times. And for a more fun application of its tech, the oven's cameras can record videos and create time-lapses of your baked goods for sharing on social media.
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> When it's time to clean up, Samsung's $1,399 Bespoke Auto Open Door Dishwasher has a few tricks of its own. In this case, the washer uses AI (yet again) and sensors to more accurately detect food residue and optimize cleaning cycles...
There's also an "AI Jet Ultra Cordless Stick" vacuum cleaner, which "uses AI to better detect what surface its on to more effectively hoover up dirt and debris."
Interestingly, in January Samsung's refrigerators also [3]got a mention in iFixit's "Worst of CES" video .
[1] https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/samsungs-2025-bespoke-appliances-are-going-all-in-on-ai-020018377.html
[2] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-unveils-new-refrigerator-lineup-equipped-with-screens-and-enhanced-ai-vision-inside-feature
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/11/1748206/ces-worst-in-show-devices-mocked-in-ifixit-video---while-youtube-inserts-ads-for-them
How much for no AI? (Score:4, Interesting)
Is it extra now?
Hey, Sammy! (Score:2, Funny)
Only the vacuum cleaner should suck.
In the intersts of reliability (Score:2)
These ultra-smart appliances bother me conceptually. The more "stuff" in a product is not just more function. It is more failure. So maybe smart should be left to those things that are designed to be smart, like humans. Leave dumb for refrigerators,
Note that the "smart" usually involves logging into, in this case, the Samsung Cloud service. The smart is not resident in my equipment. It has to log in to become smart. This has a downside. Everything eventually dies, even mega-corporations such as Samsung. All
Samsung AI underwear is next... (Score:2)
It has an outlet on the front to let your ding-dong in and out. It integrates with your AI powered refrigerator so you can watch your favorite "ball game" standing in front of your, you guessed it, refrigerator. It integrates with your AI powered Oven, so you can now seamlessly bake your sausages with the click of a button.
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Old technology.
A:\
Floppy dick drive.
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I think if you have more than one sausage, you ought to be in movies.
Cart before the horse? (Score:2)
I don't want it - can't imagine any usefulness for me in my lifestyle.
But, maybe others will benefit from it, or like it, or whatever.
So, my question is - serious question :
Did Samsung or any such company make these products because their customers asked for it, or some kind of market research or focus group or whatever suggested a real need or potential market ?
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Did they do this because some engineer said "Gee whiz, I can make this happen, let's do it", or some exec said "Oh shit, the other companies
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It's hard to imagine a product that suits a someone else's lifestyle. I won't buy this, but it would absolutely suit my lifestyle. I come up with ideas of what to cook on the way home from work. Quite often that results in either one of
a) me buying ingredients I already have resulting in them eventually going off
b) me doing a second trip to the shop when I get home because I thought I had something I didn't
c) (rare) wife being home when I call and ask her to look in the fridge.
> How are these companies making such decisions, who makes them, is it good business?
Good question, one which can b
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Here's an idea - open the fridge door in the morning and check what's there. Hey I know, radical right! But unless you've got the memory of a goldfish it might just work.
Self cleaning (Score:1)
That's all I want beyond what my appliances already do, Self clean, A truly useful feature. Everything else from fridge to vacuum cleaner already do all that is expected of them, Except clean themselves. Sounds a lot harder than shoving AI in to everything I guess.
No, No, Hell NO (Score:2)
Never buying one.......too many reasons why !
Longevity (Score:2)
The biggest problem with such fancy appliances is longevity. Our previous house came with a fridge that we eventually replaced, because of rust problems. Pretty sure it dated from the 60s, so at least 40 years old. The replacement fridge is now at least 15 years old, and doing fine.
What are the chances that these super complicated appliances live that long? Pretty near zero...
Do not want (Score:4, Insightful)
I just want my appliances to be appliances.
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> I just want my appliances to be appliances.
I’m with you. I can figure out what type of floor I’m vacuuming and if I want to use a carpet setting on wood floors I will. I have a new oven with swing doors (no more door blocking the entrance) that’s digital and nags me if I do not have it connected to the internet. All I want is for it to hold a temperature in whatever cook mode I chose, and frankly have not seen much difference in cook modes as far as result go; and not have it try to tell me what I should use. Frankly, the best c
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Indeed.
I will not connect my appliences to the network so any of these "Smart" features will not work anyway.