I know freezers with a top door, but no fridges - and frankly, I imagine a top-loaded fridge to be impractical in kitchen use unless there is some way to reach the bottom more easily. Do you have a link to a fridge like that so I can imagine the concept better?

> Do you have a link to a fridge like that so I can imagine the concept better?

Large camping fridges are as close as I have seen, but I'm sure someone's thought of one for domestic use.

As for practicality in the kitchen, I can imagine a design where you have multiple medium sized fridge drawers. Once pulled out, you can open their top lid and access the content. This way, you don't have one deep container, but rather, multiple shallower containers. For efficiency, a single compressor can feed all of them.

EDIT: actually I've seen freezer drawers - you just need to dial the cooling down a bit.

Another idea: Vertically long rectangular compartments that can be pulled out individually. Essentially a whole bunch of vertical drawers of different sizes, with meshed walls to allow air to pass through them.

Another silly idea: a horizontally mounted ferris wheel