LG Teams Up With LINE To Let You Control Smart Appliances With Text Messages
LG’s CES press conference just kicked off here in Las Vegas, and the Korean tech giant is talking up services at a breakneck pace. In a bid to improve how people interact with the company’s vast smart home appliance portfolio, CTO Scott Ahn talked up LG HomeChat, a virtual assistant service that lets users essentially text message their appliances to issue commands and get status updates. In a brief demo video, LG highlighted how users could send messages to their refrigerators to see (I’m not kidding) how many beers are still available or send photos to their televisions to see them on a big screen. The depth of integration with LG’s appliances is no joke either — its smart cooking range can also deliver recipes when you ask it how to prepare particular meals, and texting “what are you doing” to a washer will yield information on how far along it is in its wash cycle.