IFA 2022 (Europe’s reply to CES) begins tomorrow, so you already know what meaning — some wacky new home equipment and residential merchandise. LG is kicking off the proceedings with the MoodUP refrigerator that has color-changing LED door panels, providing one thing utterly totally different on your kitchen than the same old white or brushed metallic.

Using LG’s ThinkQ app or tapping on the door, you may select from 22 colours for the higher door panel and 19 colours for the decrease one. Or, you may let it select varied shade themes like ‘Season,’ ‘Place,’ ‘Mood’ and ‘Pop,’ that signify issues like the colours of nature or “a feeling of wellbeing through the use of soft, soothing colors,” LG wrote. 

The panels will blink repeatedly should you depart the door open for too lengthy, or flash a welcome when somebody approaches. The freezer door will even glow brighter at night time “to help midnight snackers find and open the door” (by no means cease, LG). With the LED panels switched off, it presents a mix of grey and white for a extra conventional look.

It additionally comes with a built-in Bluetooth speaker that connects to cell units or PCs. You can get it to play songs from LG’s Music Collection playlist that match the colour theme, or have the LED panels change colours in sync with the music. The concept is so as to add “a sense of liveliness and fun” by apparently reworking your kitchen right into a discotheque. 

Details are scarce on the fridge itself, but it surely seems like LG has each a large, four-door mannequin and a daily single-door model with two freezer compartments. The prime picture seems to point out each fashions side-by-side. 

It additionally presents upgraded voice recognition together with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Several PR pictures seem to point out the corporate’s “InstaView” digicam/show tech as properly, however LG did not point out that within the information launch. There’s no phrase on pricing, however LG might be displaying off the “Dios Object Collection MoodUP” fridges at IFA 2022 in Berlin, beginning tomorrow.