Ember Launches Larger Capacity 14oz Ceramic Mug, Available from Apple

[B-Dizzy]

the price difference between 10oz. and 14oz. is ridic. But the mug itself is rad. Have had it for over a year and love it. I can go into hour long meetings and enjoy my coffee throughout the whole meeting and I actually finish an entire cup of coffee instead of dumping out the last half because it gets too cold

 

[centauratlas]

Not my cup of tea. lol. I hadn't seen this before, but just wow.

Some people must be buying these things, but to each his or her own.

 

[ignatius345]

This is one of those things that would’ve been better spent solving an actual problem like food and health.

And where the carbon cost of the materials to make this piece of crap just don't add up. This thing isn't worth the environmental impact of its materials, design, manufacture, distribution and eventual disposal into landfill.
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the price difference between 10oz. and 14oz. is ridic. But the mug itself is rad. Have had it for over a year and love it. I can go into hour long meetings and enjoy my coffee throughout the whole meeting and I actually finish an entire cup of coffee instead of dumping out the last half because it gets too cold

Ten dollars: https://www.amazon.com/Home-X-Warmer-Desktop-Heated-Coffee/dp/B00FL5V5N0

 

[boomspot]

Removed.

 

[BadMelonFarmer]

I think this should have been published 5 days ago.... surely?!

If not, I’m Out!

 

[jeyf]

i want a coffee cup that is Qi certified

 

[Braderunner]

There's one born every minute!

 

[jakeowens]

I am actually have the first version, and I find it incredibly useful. I don't drink my coffee fast and I'm in an environment where I get pulled around a lot and I was coming back to my desk to cold coffee. This keeps my coffee hot all morning. Sure it looks like a gimmick and useless product to most of you, but it's a niche market and works perfect for some people's lives #firstworldprivilage lol

 

[Kabeyun]

Totally agreed. This looks like it should be on some “worst products ever” list.

This mug is actually really useful if you enjoy keeping your coffee at a consistently perfect temperature. Many of the baristas at coffee shops I go to love this thing, it keeps my drinks hot and I never have to worry about my beverage getting lukewarm. Self heating mugs like this have been around for a long time, Ember just does it better I guess.

It’s not terrible, but the problem I’ve found is that coffee with milk or cream pretty quickly forms a gross skin on top. Better for tea. Pretty cool to pick up you cup that’s been sitting around and the drink is still nicely hot. Got it as a gift, otherwise I doubt I’d have paid asking.

The bigger one is necessary because the current one contains hardware up to the level of the bottom of the handle. Not that much room left for a drink.

So it's a glorified small electric kettle, why's it cost so much? Because it runs on batteries instead of a base plate (ie cord)?

Besides because it does? Well, it does contain this stuff that stores heat when the beverage is too hot, and then releases it when it’s trying to cool down. Neat idea. Maybe that tech is expensive.

 

[imageWIS]

You'll soon need a gun to protect your coffee mug...

iPhone connected gun coming soon?

 

[C DM]

Totally agreed. This looks like it should be on some “worst products ever” list.

As pointless as an iPhone-connected pair of scissors. Just because it can be connected, doesn’t mean it should be.
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I’m still waiting for a smart automatic banana peeler.

This could be the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

Coffee should be served FRESH und be enjoyed within Minutes. No need to keep the temperature up when the flavor is already gone. Baristas... people who did not qualify as a whole barkeeper.

There's one born every minute!

Plenty of people who actually make use of it actually get a benefit from it. But, surely, if someone doesn't care about something that it's surely shouldn't even exist. The world and reality is truly simply black or white with absolutely nothing in between.

Review: Ember's iOS-Connected Ceramic Mug Keeps Your Coffee and Tea Warm for Hours

 

[mdatwood]

I got one as a gift. I agree it's pricey and wouldn't have bought it myself, but here I am drinking my coffee out of it. It's quite useful at keeping a drink warm. I would have preferred it to be fully operational from the device itself. I dislike having to use my phone to control the temp.

 

[mattster16]

This mug is actually really useful if you enjoy keeping your coffee at a consistently perfect temperature. Many of the baristas at coffee shops I go to love this thing, it keeps my drinks hot and I never have to worry about my beverage getting lukewarm. Self heating mugs like this have been around for a long time, Ember just does it better I guess.

Exactly. These already exist, this is just a more high-tech implementation - nothing wrong with that. It is also better than some regular hot plate a few have posted in response on here - those have no precise temperature regulation at all.

 

[4487549]

This news is 4 days late

 

[harrisondavies]

I own both the ceramic mug and the travel mug. While the concept is great, battery life is not so good, and neither is the software. Frequently having to reset is a common thing as is they reporting differing battery life and failing to heat.

I’m hoping they pay more attention to the software going forward.

 

[DailySlow]

This mug is actually really useful if you enjoy keeping your coffee at a consistently perfect temperature. Many of the baristas at coffee shops I go to love this thing, it keeps my drinks hot and I never have to worry about my beverage getting lukewarm. Self heating mugs like this have been around for a long time, Ember just does it better I guess.

Agreed. My 91 year old mother in law has old school cup pads (plug in, not iCup) around her house. She makes coffee, then gets about her morning reads - with a nice hot cup right there, for hours. I use my microwave.

 

[Westside guy]

You have GOT to be kidding... is this a belated April Fools joke?

 

[C DM]

You have GOT to be kidding... is this a belated April Fools joke?

Review: Ember's iOS-Connected Ceramic Mug Keeps Your Coffee and Tea Warm for Hours

 

[EatinPonies]

lol @ everybody here just ROASTING this thing. Hilarious!

A lot of people are like "Dude - it's a mug. But it connects to my phone." I come at this from a different angle, I guess. I love coffee and my wife's cup of coffee always gets cold before she finishes it. So we have a mug warmer, which works great, but she's stuck to one location. So, why not put the warmer *inside* the mug? But then we have the problem of different drinks (tea, coffee, hot chocolate) having different ideal temperatures, so the temperature needs to be variable. But nobody wants a mug with buttons on it, so why NOT let it connect to your phone?

I see the use case. But I loathed that it was only 10oz. That's crazy small. I love that there's a 14oz option now, but I agree with everybody else that the cost jump is exorbitant. How about $99 for the big one and $75 for the smaller one? Or better yet: $75 and $49?

 

[Pirate!]

I found filling a mug with hot water for 30 seconds or so before putting coffee in manages to keep the beverage hot enough for me to finish (opposed to just filling up a room temp mug).

 

[artfossil]

For me (who always lets her coffee get too cold to drink) I find that getting up repeatedly to microwave my coffee helps me close my Stand ring.

 

[nikaru]

I take a lot of te and coffee and spend my day sitting on a desk. Keeping my drink hot is a great but not for 130$. Maybe at 50$ i would have bought it.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

For the nerd who really does have everything.

You mean too much money, not enough sense?
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Trying hard to make sense of what I just read

When everyone knows that Americans want the 36 ounce one more than anything.
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I take a lot of te and coffee and spend my day sitting on a desk. Keeping my drink hot is a great but not for 130$. Maybe at 50$ i would have bought it.

Seeing it, or something quite like it, at the local Starbucks, the word that popped into my head was 'douchebag'. Like a perfect product for a real douchebag. I heard someone ripping today's narcissistic freaks with words like 'bun wearing', 'Birkenstock shod', 'organic soy latte drinking', and 'unshaven'. 'Electric mug' should be thrown in somewhere. *sigh*

Too bad someone hasn't come up with a useful product like a baby bottle warmer like that.

 

[Moonlight]

Reminds me of Picard with the whole "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." line. Is the product silly? Maybe to our eyes now, but then again our grandparents likely thought the idea of having two temperatures in the same car based on driver/passenger was also absurd. No one complains now about it. I wouldn't be surprised if items of this type are common in kitchens in 50 years.

You...are a futurist, and are very correct.

 

[Krayzkat]

1/ is this a late April Fools joke?

2/ with the cost of this thing, is this what Tim Apple refers too when he describes the latest Apple gadgets as being priced at “just one cup of coffee”?