CES 2023: Ember's New Temperature-Controlled Mug to Support Apple's Find My

[compwiz1202]

My $10 stainless steel mug keeps my drink at the temperature i want for 3 hours too…

Yea I was somewhat intrigued until the price

 

[obezcinnet]

Let me introduce the old fashioned and analog "Thermoskanne". Keeps your tea warm for up to 8 hours* without recharging. To recharge, you just fill it up with another hot beverage!

are you proposing this as an "affordable" alternative to the ember mug? you can get a thermos for $10 or $100.

 

[mark-in-mk]

From what I've read, people who don't have Ember mugs think they are too expensive and over engineered. But most of the people who do have Ember mugs love them and sing their praises to anyone who will listen.

Sort of like a certain computer company.

Yup, that's me - Owner of a regular 14Oz, and a Travel mug. Once you go Ember, you never go back !

 

[magbarn]

Love using my Ember's throughout the years as I drink my coffee slowly. BUT I wish they went with LIFEPO4 battery for this gen as my ember's batteries are usually pretty tired/done after just 1 year of use and don't seem to keep the heat as long anymore. LifePO batteries are good for 1000's of charges while the LiON batteries on these wear out after a couple of hundred.

 

[contacos]

are you proposing this as an "affordable" alternative to the ember mug? you can get a thermos for $10 or $100.

No I am proposing that this product is dumb but people pay 90 bucks for Kardashian leggings so there is a market for everything

 

[ignatius345]

My $10 stainless steel mug keeps my drink at the temperature i want for 3 hours too…

And consumes no electricity in the process, nor does it have a whole host of resource-intensive electronics inside. Your $10 stainless steel mug also won’t go “obsolete” or break in 5 years.

I hope it’s sooner rather than later that people start realizing that every stupid little “convenience” like this has real costs far beyond the two hundred dollar purchase price.

 

[ratspg]

Cups with batteries lolllllllllllllll.
They haven’t made smart plates that keep food warm yet? More batteries. Lol. SMH.
Thermos 40oz: $29.99
Ember 12oz:$199.99

Less to drink for more than 6x the price. 👏 👏 👏

 

[sw1tcher]

This is really cool, makes you really think about why Apple doesn’t have their Siri remote for the Apple TV with this functionality

Why do you need your Apple tv remote to keep your coffee warm?

 

[Callander]

I drink my coffee too quick for a heated mug.

 

[elvisimprsntr]

How about one that keeps my beer cool? Never mind, my beer is never in the glass long enough to get warm.

 

[sw1tcher]

I don't know about you, but I know the location of my mug of coffee at all times. It's not going anywhere.

I think this is for people who tend to place their coffee container on the roof of their car, forget it's there and drive off. The Find My allows them to find it after it falls off the roof.

But as others have stated, spending $200 for a container to keep your coffee/beverage warm is dumb (IMO) when a <$20 insulated container can do the exact same thing.

 

[Juicy Box]

Why do you need your Apple tv remote to keep your coffee warm?

Not sure if are are being serious or not, but I am talking about the find my feature.

 

[obezcinnet]

there is a market for everything

that part I agree. I think people on this forum are well aware of that just because something is out of your price range, that doesn't necessarily make it "dumb".

 

[Will Co]

I love technology. I really do. I've worked with it, and on it and in it my whole life. But does the world really need this?

 

[Ken Linger]

This is really cool, makes you really think about why Apple doesn’t have their Siri remote for the Apple TV with this functionality

Because not having it integrated means you'll pay another ~US$30 for an AirTag

 

[Epoon4]

Have a normal mug myself.

Good to have a cup of coffee still at perfect drinking temperature after leaving on table for an hour without lid.

It’s ridiculous. And I love it.

 

[Juicy Box]

Because not having it integrated means you'll pay another ~US$30 for an AirTag

And having to attach it somehow.

 

[marstan]

Ridiculous example of over-engineering.

Actually, it is an excellent example of over-engineering.

 

[Gsoz]

I work as a family doctor and in between seeing patients, I like to take sips of my coffee.. As warm as I first made it.. It is excellent in that setting.

 

[Juicy Box]

BUT I wish they went with LIFEPO4 battery for this gen as my ember's batteries are usually pretty tired/done after just 1 year of use and don't seem to keep the heat as long anymore.

Maybe they are designed to not last as long so you will buy another. Like LED light bulbs that should last a lot longer than they do, but engineered to fail early.

 

[Bromeo]

I have a 10 oz Ember mug, purchased off eBay. It’s a nice little luxury, and yes totally unnecessary, like many things we treat ourselves to. There are certainly many alternatives.

I also use a Lexo / Burnout tumbler that has an integrated phase change layer to cool your boiling hot beverage down to drinkable temperature and hold it there for hours, no batteries required. In fact I’d say it performs quite similarly to the Ember, weighs about the same, but just doesn’t let you adjust your preferred temp. The phase change is permanently set to 135F. It should long outlast the limited battery life of the Ember.

The annoyance I have with regular insulated tumblers is the beverage is too hot to drink at first, and as you introduce air, the beverage slowly cools below the ideal temperature. The Ember and Lexo both solve that.

 

[ignatius345]

You can make the same argument literally for anything. $3000 macbook? how many PCs is that?

How much billable work can you do on that mug?

 

[Juicy Box]

The annoyance I have with regular insulated tumblers is the beverage is too hot to drink at first, and as you introduce air, the beverage slowly cools below the ideal temperature. The Ember and Lexo both solve that.

Yeah, this is how my cheap travel mug works. It stays hot for a really long time though, too hot during the first two hours, imo.

I wouldn't be opposed to spending a few hundred on a decent Ember mug to regulate my coffee temp, but they are all too small.

My current travel mug that I use when I have to go to my office is 32 ounces (about a liter), There isn't an Ember one that is even close in size.

 

[erikkfi]

The planet is doomed.

 

[erinsarah]

I know a few people who have them, either given them as gifts or bought as a kind of novelty purchase, and their takes are all some variant on "meh, it's nice to have but I wouldn't miss it." I think the scenarios you find yourself in where you want to keep a drink warm for a long time but a cheaper insulated travel cup wouldn't do the job itself are pretty rare. "I want a cup of coffee now, but I also want the same cup of coffee in an hour" is not a thought I have a lot. It feels like a solution in search of a problem. Not everything needs a 'smart' variant; mugs are quite high up the list of things that don't.

I feel like my wife, who works from home and drinks tea throughout the day, fits this market - she tends to slowly sip the tea and microwave the mug to warm it every half hour or so, oddly never removing the teabag and thus making it horribly bitter (but that's another issue). She could use this mug, but we sure as heck don't see the need to spend hundreds of dollars on one.