LG has just the thing for the kitchen that has everything else in the shape of its new MoodUP refrigerator. Now available to pre-order in South Africa (for the princely sum of R140,000), the massive 617-litre fridge does its usual thing — keeping food cool and unspoiled — and a few extras besides.
One of those extras is changing its appearance. Three of the MoodUP’s four door panels are packed with an array of LEDs that allow users to change the colour of their fridge at a moment’s notice through the LG ThinQ app. Why you’d want to do that in your kitchen regularly isn’t explained. Perhaps folks who can afford one of these also do a ton of renovations?
Getting your MoodUP
The pricy appliance justifies its title in other ways, too. An integrated Bluetooth speaker allows for kitchen music (our preferred soundtrack is a shouting Gordon Ramsey with a chorus of sobbing in the background) while you or whoever cooks for you is in the vicinity. The MoodUP’s LED panels can pulse along with the beat (or Gordon calling someone a donkey), but there’s also a practical component.
The fourth section of the fridge is called an InstaView panel. It operates like LG phones from days of yore, in that a double-tap renders it transparent and shows what’s lurking inside. Handy for checking the status of your milk, eggs, or those brownies you hope your gran never eats by mistake, it could also save a) power and b) time and effort spent opening a door.
Other features include Linear Cooling and Inverter Linear Compressor, branded terms for how the MoodUP keeps your snacks crisp and tasty. LG reckons these “[limit] fluctuations, keeping food fresher for longer while optimising energy consumption.”
For extra temptation, LG South Africa is offering some of the folks who order the LG MoodUP a free LG Styler, a R32,000 steam closet that, essentially, dry-cleans any clothing you stick inside it. If you’ve got space for the first, you must have space for the second, since it’s about the size of a fridge itself.
