June 16, 2004

Fridge Technology

As all of you know would know (the one's who have been to my place). I've got me-self one of those Fisher & Paykel fridges that beeps at you when you forget the fridge door open for too long. Pretty nifty feature.

Well the fridge had decided to beep when it felt like and had so, several times in the past few weeks. A warning light showed me it may be a prob with the freezer part of it. So I called the customer care number and they sent a techo out to fix it today. To my surprise he pulled out a Trade based PocketPC, set up a COMM with the fridge and was told what the problem was. Can you believe there is a PC in the fridge that tells the PocketPC what the status of each part in the fridge is at. It even tells you how many times you've opened the freezer door. (What the??)

Technology is taking over.

Do you think the toilet knows how many dumps I've had? Better see if I can talk to it with my PocketPC.

Posted by [jc] at June 16, 2004 06:04 PM
Comments

Now that's something the Palm could never do!

Posted by: chris at June 23, 2004 01:40 PM

please no more dumps nor db's
I'm in the throws of fixing some oxygen theif's oracle restore which did just that

Posted by: l at June 17, 2004 04:34 PM

i wouldn't be suprised if your toilet has a database, keeping records of each flush..

Posted by: boy wonder at June 17, 2004 01:43 PM

Technology is so stupid sometimes...

excellent.. lol.. very good Shemster.. :)

Self-diagnostic equipment is just around the corner

Posted by: J at June 17, 2004 11:41 AM

You have to wonder what was wrong with the idea that a fridge would slowly close the door when left open. No beeps, no computers, just a self-closing door. Technology is so stupid sometimes.

Posted by: Shem Mazur at June 17, 2004 11:30 AM

The techo went back to his van, pulled out a brand new fan (looked like a PC fan) and replaced the old one with it. All fixed.

Posted by: [jc] at June 16, 2004 11:27 PM

madness!!!...so u never actually said whether the techo equipped with all his gadgetry was successful in locating and rectifying the issue at hand ?

Posted by: tdl at June 16, 2004 08:55 PM

Core "dumps" will never be the same again?

Posted by: shem at June 16, 2004 07:17 PM