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By the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the idea of connecting home appliances to the Internet (Internet of Things) had been popularized and was seen as the "next big thing." [3] In June 2000, LG launched the world's first internet refrigerator, the Internet Digital DIOS. This refrigerator was unsuccessful because consumers saw it as unnecessary ...
Food in a refrigerator with its door open. A refrigerator, commonly shortened to fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature. [1]
Give what you can, take what you need. This article, Free food in Singapore: Community fridges launch in Dorset Road with free groceries for needy residents, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia ...
Typically the minibar cooling unit was different from standard refrigerators, using absorption technology. An Italian company was the first manufacturer to install a compressor mini-refrigerator in the NASA Space Shuttle in 1982. A compressor refrigeration unit, in addition to a timer and a eutectic plate, allow saving more energy, compared to ...
In 1926, Nugget Markets opened its first store in Woodland, California by the father-and-son team of William and Mack Stille. Mack Stille ran most of the day-to-day operations and introduced many unconventional policies to the store, such as incorporating meat departments, installing refrigerated produce cases, and employing checkout stands equipped with power belts.
As Singapore grew as a trading port in the late 19th century, John Little expanded in the same period. In addition to retail, John Little also operated a car business, a motor garage, a furniture factory, a café and a beauty salon. From its original one-storey premises in Raffles Place, the store expanded to occupy another floor.
The first successful mechanically refrigerated trucks were made for the ice cream industry in 1925. [2] American inventor Frederick McKinley Jones is known to be the first person to invent a refrigerated truck.
Go Fridge (simplified Chinese: 拜托了冰箱; traditional Chinese: 拜託了冰箱; pinyin: Bàituōle bīngxiāng), also known as Play, Fridge, is a Chinese cooking show produced by Tencent Video. The rights were bought from South Korean television series Please Take Care of My Refrigerator .