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LG's Color-Changing Fridge Brings the Party to Your Kitchen

The wild new fridge with color-changing panels and a Bluetooth speaker was unveiled at CES this week. And it's definitely a vibe.

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LG MoodUp Fridge

It's party time.

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If you're looking to party in 2023 but find your current fridge just can't keep up, LG has a fix via the MoodUp Refrigerator, unveiled this week at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. The flashy new fridge is a total bop, with a built-in speaker and color-changing LED backlit panels that can be customized to match your mood, kitchen motif or theme of your next at-home bash. (See it in action from about the 5-minute mark in the video below.) For more, here are the most futuristic tech drops we saw and a few weird and wonderful things at CES this week.

The new MoodUp fridge boasts over 190,000 total color combinations including Viva Magenta, Pantone's Color of the Year, and party panels are controlled via LG's ThinQ mobile app.

LG's new fridge even sports a Bluetooth speaker so, yes, you can absolutely sync music up with your fridge panel lights if you're into that sort of thing. When it's not in party mode, you can set the LG MoodUp panels to a more stately white, black, silver or gray. 

moodup fridge and app

Play around with over 190,000 color combos on LG's new fridge.

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The fancy new LG fridge has some more practical features, too. Leave the fridge door open for too long and the MoodUp fridge will flash a panel to alert you. And the upper right panel (the fridge side) becomes transparent with the nudge of a finger, allowing you to see what's inside without letting any cold air out -- which is ultimately the most useful feature day-to-day.

Read more: Best Refrigerator for 2023

It also has a sensor that can be set to give the fridge a gentle light in the middle of the night, so you won't step on the cat at 2 a.m. on your way to sneak bites of cheesecake.

lg fridge with transparent panel

The transparent door panel is by far the most useful feature of LG's flashy new fridge. 

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Another fridge innovation from LG is the Counter-Depth MAX French Door Refrigerator. Counter-depth fridges -- those that jut out only as far as the average counter -- typically make for a more streamlined look, but give you less storage. LG has managed to engineer a counter-depth unit that still offers a whopping 27 cubic feet, or slightly less if you choose a model with an ice dispenser in the door. 

Prices for the new LG fridges were not made available, but we anticipate a pretty hefty tag for both.

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