Talk about convenient. Unfortunately, by the time you get home, the rum raisin will be trickling down the porch steps. Enter David Porter.
Nobody's home to take deliveries anymore.
You program it to heat some compartments, cool others, and freeze still others. The delivery person punches in an access number and distributes the groceries to the appropriate compartments. The Smart Box sounds like something out of Woody Allen's futuristic comedy Sleeper. Designed jointly by Porter and the nonprofit Kansas City-based Midwest Research Institute, it's still in prototype. It doesn't even have a distributor.