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CES 2017: Griffin Unveils New 'Home' Collection With Smart Coffee Maker, Mirror, Toaster, and More

avanpelt said:
I don't want a company that makes car chargers and other things of that sort also making the small appliances in my kitchen. Griffin is not in the small appliance business as their primary business, so they probably know very little about making a quality small appliance that consistently makes a good cup of coffee and doesn't periodically burn your toast. I don't care how "smart" the thing is. If the end result isn't consistently good, I won't want to use the product...whether it's "smart" or not.
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Samsung makes tons of products. A big part of their product line still caught fire or explodes. Along with some of their other products like the washers.
 
This is what we call innovation - though a bit expensive, the products have got the wow factor!
 
Amadeo said:
How did we get here?
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The bigger question is where are we going.

I think the only way many of these IoT appliances make sense is if they need to work together somehow, and really the only way they become truly useful is if the appliances are being operated by another machine, such as a household robot. Your alarm clock or smart bed recognizes that you are about to wake up and notifies the kitchen to take the butter out of the fridge to soften, while it scrambles your eggs, fries your bacon, and toasts your bread to your liking. Meanwhile your coffee maker brews your favorite morning blend, and your breakfast tray is loaded with everything you prefer and delivered to your bedside.
 
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doelcm82 said:
The bigger question is where are we going.

I think the only way many of these IoT appliances make sense is if they need to work together somehow, and really the only way they become truly useful is if the appliances are being operated by another machine, such as a household robot. Your alarm clock or smart bed recognizes that you are about to wake up and notifies the kitchen to take the butter out of the fridge to soften, while it scrambles your eggs, fries your bacon, and toasts your bread to your liking. Meanwhile your coffee maker brews your favorite morning blend, and your breakfast tray is loaded with everything you prefer and delivered to your bedside.
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One of these articles mentioned a shower, and I'm still looking for a clip of the Jetson's conveyor that took George through the shower and his full morning routine.

Most coffee makers, including this one, have a timer you can set to kick them off in the morning, what's needed is the ability to link the coffee to your alarm clock and the fact that these don't appear to be HomeKit enabled makes the whole lineup kind of useless. So I've put the grounds in the coffee maker, I've put the water in the coffee maker, I'm standing at the coffee maker, but I have to reach into my pocket, open an app, and go through starting it over Bluetooth?
 
Analog Kid said:
One of these articles mentioned a shower, and I'm still looking for a clip of the Jetson's conveyor that took George through the shower and his full morning routine.

Most coffee makers, including this one, have a timer you can set to kick them off in the morning, what's needed is the ability to link the coffee to your alarm clock and the fact that these don't appear to be HomeKit enabled makes the whole lineup kind of useless. So I've put the grounds in the coffee maker, I've put the water in the coffee maker, I'm standing at the coffee maker, but I have to reach into my pocket, open an app, and go through starting it over Bluetooth?
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It appears that this coffee maker has manual controls. If you're standing in front of it, you push a button and the brewing begins. If you have a bluetooth chip in your head, because you are a robot, you use bluetooth commands to start the brew, because wasting the energy raising your arm (or whatever you call the articulated appendage you use to interact with the analog world) just to push a button on another IoT device is skeuomorphic nonsense.

I agree that the lack of HomeKit makes it a non-starter for me. Also the fact that I don't like coffee! But for a device that can be set up in advance (or with the ability to set itself up on command), being able to start it from a distance, such as from your bed or the living room, is a plus.
 
The toaster is probably the simplest piece of "equipment" I have in the kitchen. Why would you want to make it more complicated? This stuff is all so stupid it won't even make it to fad status.
 
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