Blog 1

For my IST 195 class this spring semester we were told to formulate an idea that we felt could be used in our daily lives or something we felt would be interesting. This Entrepreneurship project really got me thinking what I could come up with to better my every day living. Because I am a hospitality management major I wanted to pick something that could also be used in the field I’m hoping to be involved in. This is where I came up with the idea of a refrigerator that goes above and beyond our every day appliance. Not only would this contraption refrigerate all items but it would do handful of other helpful tasks. These include: scanning all items that are placed inside revealing the caloric information as well as an alarm or email reminder when the food is in a days reach of spoiling, recipes that each item can be used for and this spectacular mechanism will also re order and a company will deliver any items that need to be restocked. The company that sells these will be in affiliation with supermarkets that can deliver items quickly and during convenient hours for those busy or working families. All this information will be located on the outside of the appliance in a small handheld computer and can also be received though and PDA or cellular devise.
This refrigerator will only be advertised though social media sites such as twitter. As we learned in the past week twitter is a great way to get new information out quickly and to millions of people in a matter of seconds. Not only will tweets be written but customers that enjoy their products could re tweet and take twitpics of their new home edition.