In case your household doesn’t have enough technology with all the smartphones, tablets and computers, Samsung has it covered with its new refrigerator, The Family Hub.

Having just landed on our shores, this whiz-bang appliance will allow you to synchronise schedules on a group calendar, leave threatening digital notes about doing the washing up, as well as telling you when the empty milk container has been put back in the fridge.

You’ll never need to write your shopping list on the back of an envelope again as The Family Hub™ fridge has three cameras inside which take a picture every time the door closes. These images and notes can be accessed anywhere via an app on your smartphone. In time, you will be able to order from the supermarket directly through the fridge.

The fridge includes a soon-to-be-covered-in-food-smears 21.5-inch touchscreen which can also display pictures of your favourite family memories. So as you’re reaching for a bottle of wine to drown out the squabbling, you can remember the joy that is your brood.

With full web-connectivity, The Family Hub can display recipes, play music, and stream TV making it considerably more fun than a Thermomix.

Samsung is not the only brand to bring us smart appliances. Whirlpool and LG have ranges dedicated to allowing you to do more around the house while you’re not even there. Most people try to forget the housework when they leave the front door, so these appliances are for the truly domestically dedicated.

Want to turn on the washing machine while stuck in traffic? There’s an app for that. Heat up the oven before you get home? There’s an app for that too. You can even turn on your heating or cooling, or totally freak out the cat by telling your vacuum cleaner to whip around before you get home.

Once upon a time, a fridge that had an ice and water dispenser was the height of sophistication, but now technology is taking the humble appliance to places we never imagined. At this rate, it won’t be long before we not only know what’s inside the fridge but our fridge will send us recipes that correspond with our ingredients. Or maybe the real technology begins when it can actually don an apron and do the cooking for us.

If it’s just a matter of time before all households have a camera in their fridges, let’s hope our condiments don’t get SnapChat accounts. The last thing our social media feeds need are pictures of the jam with butterfly crowns or pickles doing rainbow vomit.