A fridge of the future that tells you what to cook with your left-overs and automatically re-orders fresh food is being designed in the UK. The fridge is designed to clean itself, cut down on wasted food, scan its shelves for food and supply you with recipes, teaching you how to cook with your leftovers, not to mention reordering fresh food too .

via [DailyMail]

Thanks to collaborations between scientists at the University of Central Lancashire and online supermarket Ocado who are working on this project. The new features will include the ability for fridges to scan their shelves to see what is in stock and use this information to both plan meals and automatically place a supermarket food order – with Ocado saying they could be hooked up to their website making grocery requests even simpler.

The smart fridge will use ‘nano-articulated technology’ shelf surfaces which, whilst smooth to the touch, will have millions of independently controlled micro-tiles which will manoeuvre products which soon need to be eaten to the front of the fridge. Ultrasound-scanning technology built into the door will allow the fridge to ‘swipe and capture’ the food on a plate before and after mealtime, meaning it can assess what type and amount of food is wasted.

Any plans to buy Self Cleaning fridge, wait for few more days or years.