While automated beverage appliances have provided countless numbers of families with the benefit of crafting personal drinks from the comfort of their home, one critical fault remains: the kitchen is getting crowded. Fret not, 21st century appliance adopters, because General Electric and the automated beverage brand Keurig just unveiled the Beverage Center — i.e., the perfect solution to the problem of diminishing counter space.
In essence, the Beverage Center does everything any beverage appliance does, brewing coffee, whipping up a Coca Cola, or blending a smoothie all in one convenient package. Conceptually built directly into a wall like an oven, this GE and Keurig collaboration would be just over two feet wide and stand a foot and a half tall. Like the many Keurig-powered machines before it, owners would have the ability to craft their desired drink by simply inserting a beverage pod. For smoothies, users would need to just secure a companion blender to its intended attachment area, add fruit or vegetables, and blend.
“We know that cooking is a big part of making a meal, and we have appliances that do this very well. But creating beverages is also part of the dining experience,” said Chris Bissig, GE Appliance’s manager of Concept and Brand Development, to Tech Insider. “We wanted to stretch beverage creation to imagine a stand-alone appliance that could do much more.”
Though the appliance only exists currently as a working prototype, GE still has the ability to show off much of what the Beverage Center can do. As mentioned above, brewing coffee and tea, carbonating soda, and blending smoothies are its biggest claims to fame. Furthermore, future owners would not only be able to whip up a cup of coffee whenever they see fit, but they’d also be able to preset the machine to dispense coffee at certain times (i.e. in the morning when waking up).
Considering this exists as a pure concept at this point, both GE and Keurig remain mum on when they plan to manufacture this futuristic appliance and how much it might cost. Despite this lack of information, one could reasonably assume the two wouldn’t bother to make such a commotion with a concept — one as promising as the Beverage Center, no less — without some intention of bringing it to market in the near future.
Few things ruin a quiet evening faster than a robot vacuum roaring through the living room. Most of us end up pausing the cleaning run, which defeats the whole purpose of owning one. Matic thinks it has the answer with its new Serene robot vacuum, and the big selling point is how little noise it makes.
The Matic Serene runs at 52 decibels even when cleaning at full power. To put that in perspective, Matic compares it to the hum of your refrigerator. It is available now for $1,695, which is $200 more than the original Matic’s current price.
Outdoor security cameras are not always practical if you live in an apartment or rental. Drilling into an exterior wall may be off-limits, while pointing a regular indoor camera through a window can create another problem once reflections start showing up after dark.
Baseus is trying to solve both issues with the new PrimeSentinel W1, a $69.99 security camera designed specifically to monitor the outdoors through glass. It mounts directly to a window without drilling and uses a 4K Starlight sensor with an F1.0 aperture for full-color monitoring during the day and at night.
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