Good fridges are a dime a dozen at CES, and LG and Samsung have totally explored what’s potential whenever you join your fridge to the web or slap a touchscreen on the entrance. The brand new GE Profile Good Fridge with Kitchen Assistant GE Home equipment is saying forward of CES 2026 does not reinvent the wheel in that regard, nevertheless it does embrace a primary: a built-in barcode scanner for including gadgets to your procuring checklist.
GE Home equipment’ “Scan-to-Checklist” function makes use of the barcode scanner to rapidly (and exactly) add gadgets to a shareable procuring checklist within the firm’s SmartHQ app. You possibly can discuss with that checklist whilst you’re procuring in particular person, or sync it with Instacart and have it delivered, eliminating the necessity to go grocery procuring fully. Contained in the fridge, GE Home equipment additionally features a flush-mount LED bar with a built-in digital camera that may ship “real-time, on-demand snapshots of crisper drawers, specializing in the costliest and perishable gadgets.” This “FridgeFocus” function is meant to forestall you from overbuying perishable produce that you simply would possibly have already got, by letting you see which perishables would possibly go dangerous first.
GE Home equipment’ fridge is chrome steel and has a built-in touchscreen show. (GE)
On prime of these sensible options, the GE Profile Good Fridge has a four-door chrome steel design, with door-in-door storage and an adjustable temperature drawer. The fridge additionally has an 8-inch touchscreen show for viewing recipes or the present climate circumstances, and microphones for accepting voice instructions. If you’re allotting water, the fridge’s water dispenser is meant to be sensible sufficient to fill a container with the precise correct quantity of water utilizing built-in sensors, too.
The GE Profile Good Fridge with Kitchen Assistant can be accessible from GE Home equipment and choose retailers beginning in April 2026 for a urged MSRP of $4,899.
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