I’m heading to Berlin to seek the solution to the smart kitchen 

I’m a sucker for nan smart kitchen. Build maine a room that tin show maine what to cook, erstwhile to cook, really to navigator it, and do nan boring bits for me, past cleanable it each up afterward, and I’ll beryllium a happy tech reviewer. For years, this has seemed wholly retired of reach. Appliance makers person stuck Wi-Fi chips successful everything but person hardly done thing to make those appliances smart. Unless each your appliances are from nan aforesaid brand, thing useful together successful nan smart room — nan 1 spot wherever interoperability really matters.

At nan IFA tech show successful Berlin, Germany, this week, nan biggest names successful location appliances will beryllium showing disconnected their latest gadgets and hopefully presenting solutions to immoderate of these problems. I’ll beryllium location to perceive what companies for illustration LG, Samsung, Bosch, Haier (GE Appliances), AEG (Electrolux), and SharkNinja person to opportunity astir nan improvement of location appliances.

Some news has already emerged up of nan show. Samsung announced it’s bringing much AI to its Samsung Food app, which intends to beryllium nan relationship betwixt its appliances and your pantry. LG revealed its first dedicated smart location hub. The ThinQ On enables sound power of LG appliances and will show them and alert you erstwhile your washer is done aliases your oven is preheated. The institution will usage LG’s ThinQ AI exertion to show voice-controlled cooking connected nan show floor. 

I expect we’ll perceive a batch much astir really companies scheme to usage generative AI to make our kitchens do much activity for us. Yes, gadgets are nosy and cool, but truthful far, overmuch of nan smart room has felt siloed successful individual ecosystems aliases trapped successful single-purpose appliances pinch unspeakable apps. Many companies look to deliberation generative AI could thief supply nan connective insubstantial nan smart location needs, 1 that tin construe what we want to do and person our appliances do it for us. 

Of course, IFA, which is celebrating its centennial this year, is not conscionable astir smart appliances. IFA is simply a immense user electronics show; it’s fundamentally Europe’s type of CES but pinch smaller TVs and less cars and tractors. 

Based connected erstwhile years, we tin expect to spot announcements of caller European smartphones and caller smartphone accessories — arsenic companies for illustration Honor, Anker, Belkin, Fairphone, and Motorola are each showing their stuff.  

Laptop innovations are often portion of nan Berlin scene, and arsenic it’s 2024, we tin presume there’ll beryllium a batch of news astir AI. Acer is holding a property conference, and Lenovo is expected to show disconnected several caller Copilot Plus PCs.

In nan realms of location audio and entertainment, TCL has announcements planned, and Bluetooth SIG will show disconnected its Auracast technology. Once again, plenty of location robots will roam nan show floor, pinch Roborock, Dreame, Narwhal, SharkNinja, and Ecovacs each expected to uncover their latest level cleaning conveniences. 

We’ll besides spot plentifulness of caller gadgets from smart location companies, specified arsenic smart lights, locks, cameras, and sensors. Aqara, Meross, EcoFlow, Govee, Nanoleaf, Reolink, Shelly, and SwitchBot are each heading to Germany to show disconnected their latest gadgets, and The Verge will beryllium location to study backmost connected nan latest and greatest.

This year, Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is headlining a bid of concerts connected nan section extracurricular nan Messe Berlin convention center. While I’m wading done nan crowds searching for nan latest foldable phone, yoga-rific laptop, and smartest room accessory to study on, conscionable remember, everything I do, I do it for you.