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Alex
Samsung has made fridges with touchscreens before. LG has made fridges with doors that turn transparent to show you the inside. This year at CES 2018, those two ideas are finally merging into one with LG’s new InstaView ThinQ smart refrigerator, which features a 29-inch touchscreen that becomes transparent if users knock on it twice.
LG actually tried this two years ago, with a version called the Smart InstaView Door-in-Door that ran a full version of Windows 10, but it’s not clear that the company ever shipped the Windows version.
This version uses the touchscreen to manage your food using LG’s webOS software and Amazon’s Alexa, which will let you tag food with virtual stickers and expiration dates and get automatic reminders when things are running low or about to go bad. There’s also a wide-angle panoramic camera on the inside of the fridge that will let you remotely view your fridge while you’re out and about to check and see if you’re actually out of milk or not.
Unfortunately, the only image that LG has shared showing the fridge is a low-resolution shot on its YouTube page banner, but it seems that you’ll be able to still use the screen while it’s translucent, allowing you to tag food directly in a vaguely augmented reality-esque move.
LG is also touting how all of its ThinQ kitchen gadgets can talk to each other to make kitchen tasks easier. So your ThinQ fridge can talk to your EasyClean oven, which will help you cook food through step-by-step instructions from the recipe app from your fridge. Then, your EasyClean oven can notify your QuadWash dishwasher about the kind of meal you cooked, so it can more efficiently select a wash cycle for that dish. Of course, all this requires spending thousands of dollars replacing every appliance in your kitchen (and if this all works as well as LG claims it does), but it’s still an intriguing vision of a Jetsons-like future utopia.
No price or release date for the InstaView ThinQ refrigerator or any of LG’s other new appliances have yet been announced.
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It's been noted on various forums that some LG TV owners can change the country code through the ez adjust service menu.
For example:
It appears the instructions covered in the link above are for webos 2.0 versions.
Changing country code has allowed many users to download apps not available in your own country.
A small amount of forums state that some LG TV owners cannot change the country code through the ez adjust service menu.
For example:
Some of those owners report a different menu, most likely those users NOT using webos 2 and are using webos 1.0 or webos 1.5
In Australia on my TV I see -
7. Country Group
Country Group Code 19
Country Group AJ
Country --
8. Area option
Area code 263
Wi-fi Frequency 7
Lang Gr. ALL
Teletext Lang Gr. W_EU
I II Save On
HDEV Off
MONO Off
Location 0
Isolator 0
I found that the South African user posted that they had a similar menu:
Comparison between Australian and South African users posting about the issue -
Area Option
Area Code -
South Africa: 259
Australia: 263
Wi-fi frequency -
South Africa: 3
Australia: 7
I note that the difference between the Area Code between the two countries (263-259) equals 4.
Further, the difference between the Wi-fi frequency between the two countries (7-3) equals 4.
I suspect that it is possible to change the country and thereby download apps from another country.
I think the USA Area code is 02.
Anyone figured out how?
Perhaps posting up your Country Group Code and Area Code (IF you have webos 1.x) may be a step towards this process.
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