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Gizmodo reviews $400 Tea machine. DRM tea cups and smart app via bluetooth.
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I know.
I've worked at a place that tried to shoehorn a mobile app and cloud connectivity to a product whose need for such a thing was extremely questionable at best.
It's just the new sexy thing to tout. Everything is just fuck fuck cloud fuck fuck mobile fuck fuck sure I'm sure we can do it in two weeks just let me tell my dev team.
I feel like all of these systems got spawned back when Keurig tried to go with their second-gen DRM'd pod system.
Also... I could see something like this catching on if the only competition was loose leaf teas, but we've had teabags for centuries now. You can get good tea in teabag form, too - Mighty Leaf makes some pretty good stuff.
Also... I could see something like this catching on if the only competition was loose leaf teas, but we've had teabags for centuries now. You can get good tea in teabag form, too - Mighty Leaf makes some pretty good stuff.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
As a Brit I feel violated.
I know.
And teabags have long reached their final evolution:
First square, then round, now pyramid.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I put the water in the kettle
I make the water hot
I pour the water into a mug with a teabag
Red Liquorice
Member
That'll be the name of my new acid jazz band.
I don't like the Keurig, but it's not significantly more expensive than other coffee brewing devices and is easier to clean.
This thing is significantly more expensive, not easier to clean, and doesn't appear to make a better product. It doesn't appear to be that much easier than traditional methods either.
I do like different teas brewed at different temperatures. For a fraction of what this thing costs I bought an electric kettle with different temperatures it can reach and hold which is perfect. It's also useful for coffee brewing and other things. I then turn around and set a timer on my microwave. The line you quoted isn't crazy, time and temp are thing you want to control to get good tea, but it's not difficult or time consuming to do yourself.
This thing is significantly more expensive, not easier to clean, and doesn't appear to make a better product. It doesn't appear to be that much easier than traditional methods either.
I do like different teas brewed at different temperatures. For a fraction of what this thing costs I bought an electric kettle with different temperatures it can reach and hold which is perfect. It's also useful for coffee brewing and other things. I then turn around and set a timer on my microwave. The line you quoted isn't crazy, time and temp are thing you want to control to get good tea, but it's not difficult or time consuming to do yourself.
I don't know whether to be amazed or stupefied.
These sorts of things would be really great as open standards though, rather than proprietary.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
And here I am literal just made myself some iced green tea from regular bags that only amounts to a few cents like a sucker.
Seriously, what the hell is with this thing, first the juicer and now this? Who keeps funding these scammy things?!
Seriously, what the hell is with this thing, first the juicer and now this? Who keeps funding these scammy things?!
Tea snobs probably already own things like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZOLU1VI/?tag=neogaf0e-20
And wouldn't like to be restricted to this companies products for tea leaves.
Kill Your Masters
Member
Update V1.5: bugfix, some tea types get burned due to miscalibration.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Someone gave me an electric kettle and it changed my life.
I like my hot coco
It's good that you have joined us in kettletopia and have left the water microwaving weirdos.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Fragamemnon
Member
electric kettle, in-cup or in-pot infuser, ezgame, ez life
At least with a kuerig you get something to make coffee for you, which is actually kind of work. Tea is dirt simple in comparison.
lol the description of the parts. It's like someone in engineering/product management is having an inside joke here, reminds me of the retroencabulator
At least with a kuerig you get something to make coffee for you, which is actually kind of work. Tea is dirt simple in comparison.
lol the description of the parts. It's like someone in engineering/product management is having an inside joke here, reminds me of the retroencabulator
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Someone gave me an electric kettle and it changed my life.
I like my hot coco
Preach! One of the handiest things to have in a kitchen, because (as Alton Brown says) it is a multitasker.
newtypepilot
Member
another $400 snake oil lol
as if that DRM juicer isn't stupid enough.
as if that DRM juicer isn't stupid enough.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Must resist Halo teabag DRM joke...
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
I have an idea for a DRM toilet with micro transactions
Mr_Antimatter
Member
Electric tea kettles are okish. The real gems are those asian hot water dispenser things. Some even have multiple temperature settings.
Absolute game changer when I got one. I actually worse the damn thing out I used it so much.
Absolute game changer when I got one. I actually worse the damn thing out I used it so much.
jediyoshi
Member
The funny thing is that juicer was apparently impeccably made
Engineer youtuber with a 40 minute breakdown https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ?t=857
MilkLizard
Member
Send one straight to that swedish Museum of Failure.
The fuck is the point of this? Automated coffee machines make sense, as making a decent coffee (especially an espresso) by hand is not always a fast or straight forward process but an automated tea machine is just nonsense.
If you're going to be buying prepacked single use portions of tea anyway then there's already a perfectly good solution for that already: electric kettle + water + tea bag + mug. Boom you're done.
I guess this is an easier sell to Americans who are somehow unaware that electric kettles exist but even then they probably already have a microwave.
If you're going to be buying prepacked single use portions of tea anyway then there's already a perfectly good solution for that already: electric kettle + water + tea bag + mug. Boom you're done.
I guess this is an easier sell to Americans who are somehow unaware that electric kettles exist but even then they probably already have a microwave.
0.04c Tea bags? You pay 4c for 100 bags?
If so, good.
Mr_Appleby
Member
As a moderate tea snob, I will continue to turn the kettle off when I have judged it hot enough for the kind of tea I am making, and continue to use in-cup infusers when I'm feeling fancy and bags when I'm not.
Anyway for greens and whites and oolong and pu-erh you should be getting multiple infusions, the first isn't even the best.
Anyway for greens and whites and oolong and pu-erh you should be getting multiple infusions, the first isn't even the best.
That's 4/£/$ for 100 bags which is do-able.
You need a proprietary ass for that.
PdotMichael
Banned
Cooking water in a microwave, who cooks water like an animal.
J
JoJo UK
Unconfirmed Member
"There's always time for a nice cup of tea. Sure didn't our lord himself on the cross pause for a nice cup of tea, before giving himself up for the world?"