Are you ready for a smart fridge?  May 2, 2011 at 7:46 AM ET
Jung Yeon-je / AFP - Getty Images / A South Korean model poses
with an LG Electronics refrigerator connected to a home Wi-Fi
network that can be controlled by a smartphone, during a
launching event in Seoul on April 19, 2011. New smart fridges
like this one and another from Samsung are due out soon.  My
refrigerator doesn’t just keep our fruits and veggies cool, it’s
a board for posting and reading vital information. There are
birthday party invitations, pictures of friends and family and
notes reminding me to do things like pick up milk at the store
hanging from to every square inch.  It’s functional, but not
pretty.  So what if a lot of that information could be served up
on an integrated display? That’s the idea behind a new class
of Wi-Fi-enabled refrigerators arriving this year.  The first is
the Samsung RF4289 LCD refrigerator ($3,499), due in stores this
month. The French door-style fridge has an 8-inch touchscreen
that provides access to se