By David Ponce

There’s a range of ways in which you can prepare your morning brew, from the powdered, instant bottom-of-the-rung stuff to the now much higher end: a coffee tap that integrates with your iDevices. Built directly into any kitchen counter top, Scanomat’s Top Brewer is a coffee lover’s dream come true. At the push of a button (still in the comfort of your bed, from your iPhone, say) and in as little as 15 seconds, your drip coffee is ready to pour out of a spigot. The machine will grind your beans and heat the water on the spot, giving you the freshest cup possible. Want more than drip coffee? Whatever the drink, it can make it. Best part: it’s self cleaning! It performs a daily 1 minute routine that cleans all the pipes, including the milk ducts. It even has a longer routine in case of heavy use, so you don’t have to worry about spoilage or foul tastes. There’s even, get this, an optional juice dispenser accessory.

The price hasn’t been announced, but like most finer things in life, chances are that if you have to ask you can’t afford it.

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By David Ponce

The Coffee Joulies will cool down your coffee three times faster than normal, and will keep it at optimum temperature twice as long. The bean-shaped stainless steel shells contain a proprietary phase change material that is solid at room temperature. Once submerged in hot liquid, the material melts, absorbing heat in the process and cooling your drink. It gives this heat back out over time as it re-solidifies, thus warming the very drink that it cooled in the first place. Each Joulie will work with 5 ounces of liquid, so you have to figure out how many to use depending on the size of your drink. Should they rupture for some reason, the material inside is non toxic and “food grade”.

It’s an ingenious process and the Joulies are not currently on the market. But they’re about to be, as they’re a project on Kickstarter. The founders needed $9,500 to get off the ground and as of this writing, they’re at $76,142. It’s not too late to get in on the action and get a 20% on the $50 price tag on a personal set of 5.

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