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Guess the trend will be more touchscreen fridges in new homes as the price goes down. I saw a few new home/duplex builds with the tech. I still think it's an oversized samsung tablet mounted on a fridge and kinda pointless if you have a tablet that you can put on the kitchen counter for recipes and cooking. I'm pretty sure there's still features to control the fridge/freezer climate within the touchscreen. Mind you, this was initial impressions since I don't wander best buy looking at kitchen appliances ever....until I started looking to upgrade from my old ass apartment to duplex this summer. Still cool though from tech enthusiast perspective.
I saw one new duplex build in east van with Nest controllers so heating, cooling, and AC is completely integrated with google home. Again, it's really cool smart home technology (at the expense privacy and having a massive ton of data collected on you though).
Of course you're paying a premium on the home with all the tech if you can afford it. I feel like the future of new home builds will be cheap energy efficient materials (that may degrade faster over time) but loaded with tech and shiny/modern fixtures, etc to entice us young folks to buy it. Think modern cars but applied to homes. But of course, it's all dependent from builder to builder, municipal building codes, and what people want for the future of homes (given the state of real estate in the lower mainland). I would definitely not be amused if I bought a shiny new $1.5mil home knowing that everything is breaking down by the 5th year so you have to plunge even more money to fix and replace everything but at least the utility bills are low in the first 3 years?
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