Surf And Turf

Need an oven with Internet access? How about a refrigerator smart enough to keep track of what’s inside, store recipes and make your grocery list? The “intelligent oven,” announced Wednesday by the Italian firm Merloni Elettrodomestici, even has remote-control cooking programs and will soon have built-in Internet access for recipes. A Japanese company, V-Sync, has developed what it called the “internet refrigerator” with a speedy Pentium II microprocessor and huge hard drive. It was unveiled Wednesday at the opening of the PC World Expo near Tokyo and is controlled with a touch panel monitor in the door or verbally through a built-in mircophone.