Melitta is brewing up a storm. Literally. The new Melitta Smart Mill & Brew Coffee Maker comes with built-in weather forecasts via Microsoft Spot technology. It’s got a decent interface on the little LCD screen and shows a three-day forcast and the current conditions outside. It updates itself every 10 minutes and costs $199. Oh, it brews a decent cup of coffee too. → Read More
We’re all about modding your stuff here at the CG, from computer cases to cell phone unlock codes and everything in between. But sometimes something comes across our desks that make us take notice and wonder, “wha?” while still being very cool. One such device is this majorly modded coffee maker. Not content with just making coffee, Tim in New York added a brain, read-out, and, yes, a Nintendo controller to his Rancilio Silvia, making it a truly personal coffe maker. → Read More
If your coffee is too hot, and you’re (like us) not a fan of mugs (makes us look a little too Lumbergh for our tastes), then you might want to look at this nifty ceramic cup from Stephen Reed. It’s a regular cup with raised ridges running along the longitude, so your fingers are actually insulated from the scalding liquid via air. Clever. Reed says his inspiration was computer heat sinks, which makes sense, since they use the same principle to cool the chip in your computer. And if it can allow our first-gen dual-G5 to run Google Earth without starting fires, we like it for our morning coffee, too. Ceramic Mug [Stephen Reed Industrial Design] → Read More
I love coffee. I love gadgets. I like coffee gadgets. There are several high-end, fancy-pants coffee makers in the world, but the Melitta ME1MSB Smart Brew adds something more than sweet, sweet caffeine to your morning: a weather report. The Smart Brew features an LCD display on the side, which, besides coffee information and alarm settings, displays the weather forcast via SPOT technology (you do remember SPOT, don’t you?) from MSN Direct. In addition, it grinds and brews your coffee automagically. This way, you can have your coffee and know what to take with you before you even leave your bedroom (your coffee maker is in your bedroom, right? And you call yourself a geek). Melitta ME1MSB Smart Brew Coffeemaker With MSN Direct [SpotStop.com] → Read More
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