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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Stuart Pritchard

EXPLAINED: Best smart fridges we test the fridge freezers with extra features | Vintage Vibes

It may surprise you to learn that the very first gleaming smart chrome-coloured monolith of food-fostering appeared on the world stage – and then, shortly afterwards, in its kitchens – way back in the annals of 2000.

Created by LG, this internet-connected icebox could create grocery lists, link to smartphone apps (not that there were many at that point), let owners tinker with the temperature and, well, all manner of other amazing, if a little underwhelming by today’s standard, things.

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