Whirlpool's centralpark refrigerator to launch creativity on door

Ever wondered where to launch your creativity apart from refrigerator. Those short sweet notes that linger on fridge doors and in your memories forever. Well, heres a solution on the doors of the future of refrigerator. Whirlpool's centralpark refrigerator, announced last fall, uses a power outlet on the top of the freezer door. Vendors are starting to offer devices that work with the outlet and hang from the fridge. Jacobson claims Whirlpool's so-called centralpark initiative might not be ambitious enough, even calling the fridge a "little hokey." Nonetheless, Whirlpool's centralpark model nabbed an innovations 2008 design engineering award from the Consumer Electronics Association and was named one of the year's hottest new products by Home Magazine. iGo, owned by Mobility Electronics, is the latest to sign on with Whirlpool's centralpark plug and play initiative. iGo makes a recharging station that works with notebooks, iPods, MP3 players, bluetooth headsets, portable game devices, cell phones and various other gadgets.

The centralpark connected refrigerator costs about $2,000. The first (and only) product available for it is Ceiva's Wifi digital photo frame (about $249). The frame has an 8-inch LCD screen and a built-in card reader for displaying thousands of photos on the refrigerator door.

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by editor, posted May 26, 2008 - 4:46 AM in Home Gadgets | Comments ()