While the kitchen is the center of family life and has a mind-bending supernatural attraction over all guests, the kitchen usually loses out to the media/entertainment/living room for the passive pleasures of visual and audio amusements.
No longer.
Whirlpool now provides us absolutely no reason to ever entertain outside of the kitchen, thanks to a new refrigerator docking station called centralpark. The refrigerator takes a leap past just keeping all of our veggies and meats at the appropriate temperatures; it may be able to dock all of our entertainment devices, including MP3 players, cell phones and DVD players.
Whirlpool is planning to roll out the $50 docking station this fall with a digital picture frame that will store your treasured images in one neatly framed package. It’s a virtual slideshow that attaches to the top of the freezer door. I don’t know if you remember what the front of your refrigerator looks like, but I haven’t seen mine since I moved in. With all of the random reminders, photos, A-B-C magnets, and original kid artwork plastered over every square inch, it’s hard to imagine not using the refrigerator as a paperwork dump site. But Whirlpool is answering the call to save our refrigerators —and countertops—from the chaos of clutter.
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