I'm unreasonably enamoured with the concept of the in-between space between the last tech in a space that caught on and the next to catch on where people are trying really weird stuff that ends up looking alien from both sides of the timeline. The real experimental hours when people can tell a tech is entering obsolesence but the new hot thing isn't in stone yet.
That gives us things like "Internet Appliances" and PDAs despite both being obsolesced 3 years later by the first real smartphones.
@trysdyn I never saw anyone with an internet-connected fridge, I think that's an American large fridge kinda thing. I just use my iPad to watch videos while cooking
@noiob We kinda started just mounting those in the fridge and from there we tumbled down into a hellscape of things trying to hook you into auto-reordering stuff the fridge thinks ran out.
But just a thing in the kitchen purpose-built to quick-pull recipes and have a kitchen timer and maybe play videos while things prep? I'd dig it.