Samsung's smart fridge is now acting as a Tinder for some with an app that clicks what's inside and lets other swipe left or right on the basis of your eating habits and preferences.
Samsung last year gave the world the first look at its smart refrigerator that can keep a track of your eating habits and even tell you the expiry dates of food. However, little do people know that the $4,000 smart appliance can also help you find a date. Called as ‘Refrigerdating’ the free app works in conjunction with Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator and helps you find a date based on what’s inside your fridge.
The smart fridge will take a photo on the contents inside of it and will share it via the app. Others can swipe right or left, something seen in Tinder to approve or disapprove of the person. Samsung says that it will tell other more about your eating habits and by extension, your lifestyle.
“We hope people can meet under more honest or transparent circumstances with the help of the contents of the fridge, because that can tell you a lot about the personality,” said Elin Axelsson, PR manager at Samsung Electronics Nordic.
As CNET reports, Samsung even had a relationship expert onboard for creating the app. Since Samsung Refrigerdating is a browser-based service, one could also open it in smartphones. It has not been revealed how many people are using it though.
In July last year, Samsung brought its smart fridge in India that has a 21-inch display powered by Bixby voice assistant. In the refrigerator, users can make use of the built-in View Inside camera to label the food digitally with expiry dates. They can also use the smartphone to see what’s inside the fridge using the View Inside app. The appliance will cost you Rs 2.8 lakhs. You can not only shop for groceries from the fridge itself but also see the content on a 21-inch tablet that runs on TizenOS. This is just one of the many appliances that falls under Samsung’s Smart Hub platform.