10 crazy Android devices that make your phone look boring, from fridges to bikes

The most popular platform for smartphones and tablets has been creeping into other devices. We can see the sense in an Android TV or laptop, and there's nothing that odd about an Android gaming console like the OUYA, but Android doesn't belong in everything. The market is all set to be flooded with Android watches, and glasses won't be far behind, but it gets a whole lot weirder than that.

Fridge

Samsung's first Android fridge can be yours for $3,700. It has an Android tablet embedded in the door. This Wi-Fi enabled LCD can display the time, the weather, even photos from your Picasa library, or entries from your Google Calendar. It will also run a handful of apps like Epicurious to provide recipes, a notepad for writing messages and reminders on the fridge door, and Twitter and an AP News app for the latest happenings. According to the consumer reviews there may be a few teething issues and design flaws. The idea of having to reboot your fridge to get it working properly just sounds wrong.

Bike Oven

Who could resist Dacor's Discovery IQ oven from just $4,500? It boasts a 1GHz Samsung processor, 512MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, and a 7-inch LCD. The Discovery IQ Controller is your cooking app and guide which can be accessed on any Android tablet or smartphone on the same Wi-Fi network. It's filled with recipes and cooking instructions, but you can also download other cooking related apps direct to your oven. There's no word on storage space and we can't imagine working on a small panel on the front of your oven will be comfortable, but it does have stereo sound. Time to cook up some Angry Birds!

Car Coffee machine

The unfortunately named Appresso is a music dock and espresso machine that you can dock your Android smartphone with. It takes coffee capsules with QR codes on them which trigger matching music. It popped up at Yanko Design and we were sad to find it's just a concept. Just when we'd given up hope of an Android coffee maker, we spotted the Qualcomm Wi-Fi Coffee Machine which made an appearance as a working prototype at MWC earlier this year, as reported by CNET. It allows you to configure your perfect cup of coffee on your Android tablet. If it was capable of loading itself with water and coffee then we'd put our money down now...but it isn't.

Washer/Dryer A desktop phone

Touch Revolution is determined to put Android tablets in everything and they've been touting the NIM1000 module around to manufacturers for a while now. They showed it off embedded in a microwave, amongst other things, at CES over two years ago. One of the more revolutionary ideas was to use Android in a phone, a desk phone. This would be great for business users because they could experience a limited version of Android on a touchscreen attached to an old school phone instead of, y'know, taking the smartphone out of their pocket.

Home automation A button Robot

We've saved the best for last. What could be better than your very own Android controlled robot? There are loads of projects out there to use Android to run robots, but our favorite is this little fella. The Arduinoid Mk I, featured on Let's Make Robots, uses a Galaxy S3 as a brain. Sadly, the reality of commercially available Android controlled robots is more like Sphero the Robotic Ball.