The Weirdest New Smart Home Appliances You Can Actually Buy

We live in an era where "dumb" appliances are going the way of physical media: directly into the landfill of history. Nowadays, if a new gadget isn't smart and doesn't do at least two unexpected things, it often doesn't even get past the R&D stage. One of the knock-on effects of this phenomenon is that the devices and gadgets we see at shows like CES are getting increasingly bizarre, often laden with weird functionality that no one asked for. However, many of these devices never make it to market, so even if you were curious about them, you'll never get the chance to buy them. That said, there are a handful of these oddities that do sneak through and actually see a commercial release, and some of them are even genuinely useful (optimistically, we'd like to think there's a correlation there). These are some of the craziest, most interesting, smart home gadgets to make it out of the lab and onto store shelves. Smart fridges that do more than just chill Samsung Smart fridges have been ... Read full article.