For those who are tired doing the laundry, Samsung has found an answer: a washing machine (33)_______can tell you when your laundry is done via a smartphone app(application).
Strange (34)_______it may seem - "my wife already does that" was a common response among attendees viewing the device when it （35）_________ (introduce) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week - Samsung is just one of many appliance makers (36)_________ (race) to install (安装) a large number of internet-connected features in machines in an effort to make them "smart".
Last year, it was a refrigerator that tweeted. This year, it's Wi-Fi-enabled laundry machines and fridges (37)_________ can tell you when your groceries are going bad.
The washers and dryers, available starting in the spring, connect to any smartphone through a downloadable application. The phone can then be used as a remote control, so the machines can be turned on and off while their owners is at work or on the bus.
Samsung says it's not just something new - the app connection actually has some practical uses.
"If you started to dry clothes in the morning and forgot to take them out, you can go to your phone and restart your dryer (38)_______ the time when come home, (39)_______ _______ your clothes are refreshed and ready to go," said spokesperson Amy Schmidt.
Perhaps, but what they will probably really accomplish is (40)__________ all good technologies do –enable laziness. Rather than getting up to check on whether the laundry is done, users will instead monitor it on their phones while watching TV.