What is information appliances?

In the long run, the implantation of digital network technology in refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens, etc., is also a very important development direction for future information appliances.

In short, the information appliance family will continue to expand. It spans across the field of information technology and home appliances, gradually blurring the original clear-cut market boundaries of computers, communication products and home appliances.

From the technical point of view, the information appliance is the digital technology and network technology integrated in the refrigerator, washing machine and other traditional household appliances, so as to establish a family networked environment. Because of this type of product for computer technology and home appliance technology, the level of intelligent combination of quite high, so most of the concepts still stay in the laboratory stage, from the market is still very far away. Another kind of product that has been marketed is the home applianceization of information products, including set-top boxes, PDAs, HPCs and so on. Its internal composition includes embedded processors, related support hardware (such as display cards, storage media, IC cards or credit card reading devices), embedded operating systems and application layer software packages. From the technical substance, it is from the existing mobile communication equipment and personal computers stripped of some commonly used functions, and digital technology and network technology closely integrated with the computer and home appliances perfect integration.