REVIEW - Ember App-controlled Mug - ‘Your mug is up to date’
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"When you have to sign up for an account for a hot drinks vessel, you are not the customer, you are the mug."
I wonder if they’ll ever switch to a subscription model, and deactivate the mug unless you’re payed up.
Absolute insanity... Can't just pair n' go.... Gotta make a friggin account.
@@geoffsmith6373 Sell you different coffees ?
@@geoffsmith6373 yeah. Sad reality of today’s society
@@declanmar7 I am absolutely certain that that is bound to happen.
I want to take a moment to appreciate the fact that you took the effort to capture the moment that the charging light went from red to green, only for a short snippet! Hats off to your dedication sir.
he goes the extra mile.
I mean, in fairness, that's very simple to achieve. I'm sure he wasn't waiting there while it charged from flat for that shot! Would take a few seconds once it's fully charged to just remove it, turn it on, then put it back on the charger. Did I need it? Not really. But then, this is a video about a very plain looking white mug, on a white background for the most part. A bit of contrast is always appreciated.
Call me cynical, but I think there is a reasonable change he used the power of montage.
Relax, tabbies, it's not 1922 where he had to keep cranking a movie camera till it changed.
Still, nice touch.
@Emily Adams Maybe he bought a novelty crank camera on Kickstarter that you can crank by rotating a little picture of a crank on your phone
The whole "sign up for an account" thing is beyond absurd. I've had completely good hardware I've had to dispose of because the company that made the product went out of business. There is no longer a way to log in and therefore no way to use the hardware. Plus, even if the company stays in business how long will they support your particular product? It's the next generation of planned obsolescence.
Agree 100%. I can see how the app is more user-friendly and intuitive than doing it on the mug itself. If there weren't smart phones, I'd bet they'd have a little remote or something or integrate it on the saucer, but an app is cheaper and easier for them.
And lithium ion cells in proximity to hot things is not good for the life of the thing. Since you are not going to carry the mug around all the time and it will usually be on its saucer plate thing, add a third contact on the bottom for a thermistor, wire the 2 extant contacts directly to the heating element and have 2 buttons for setting the temperature and an LED readout on the saucer thing.
Boom. No stupid app.
Yeah, but it will still be a perfectly good coffee mug.
I can do one better.
Had a camera platform thing. App that I technically own in the Apple app store I can't download because the company went out and no one paid the $100 fee.
The fee the DEV needs to pay is less than the device.
Most of these devices can re-programmed as they are all based on same chip. Then they are not connected to Public Intenet at all. They make their own internet and webserver, so they would work anywhere without cellphone towers or Wifi. Here is my very own coffee-machine-server written in Python: github.com/timonoko/Tokmannin-ESP8266-Wifi-topseli/blob/master/kahvinkeitin.py
On the one hand, it sounds like a quite well-executed, thought-out product: Clean and inoffensive design, all the settings you'd like, neat touches like the timers and personalised colours, and it actually works properly (not always a given).
On the other hand, I keep reminding myself that it's a mug with an app.
If you’d posted this a few days ago I’d have thought it was an April fool.
I assumed it was an April fools joke. Just off to buy a travel mug :) and a t-shirt.
For Patreons, they probably had it on the 1st.. as they get early viewing on content.
@@KayoMichiels No they didn’t. You can see patreon comments from a week ago.
I double checked that this wasn't a video from April 1st that CZcams decided to not show me for a few days as it's wont to do
I think it is a april fools joke no matter when the video was posted.
"Your mug is up to date!" How can I not hit like with that comedic genius?!
I want it printed... _on the mug!_
@@olmostgudinaf8100 using knife is also hilarious
And it will be an expensive paper weight once the company is bankrupt and the app is no linger supported.
@@macsmith2013 An app doesn't suddenly stop working because of a company going bankrupt unless it's always online.
That's like saying your old playstation stopped working because of no updates for 20 years
@@macsmith2013 Well, it will then turn back to the dark ages, and will became just a _mug_. :)
"Your mug is up to date" on a tshirt is great. On a mug is even better
"Internet of things" is only part of a phrase. The whole thing is "internet of things that don't need to be on the internet."
Check out the Twitter account "internet of shit" which is exactly all about all the extremely stupid IoT devices we see around the world and the comical situations it can lead to (eg. Russians backing your "smart" fridge)
"Fancy a coffee?"
"Sure. What's the wi-fi password?"
"I am in danger of turning my mug into a brick"
THAT is a t-shirt-slogan if there ever was one!
more like in danger of turning my mug into a mug.
I'm just wondering how do you replace the battery? Hello Elon? Ya got a battery for this gadget?
Legend has it LGR is hard at work printing YOUR MUG IS UP TO DATE banners
someone send him more printer ribbon, quick!
I'd wager this has already been mentioned in the 2,400 comments below - but we need gray t-shirts with a huge
"Flippin' Hot
60.0"
icon on them.
Getting notifications about your mug's battery being low. People were hoping for jetpacks in the future and this is what we got.
How to tell that this is not his first YT video …
06:22 “I just wanted to mention it that
yes I do know they exist
and I know that YOU know they exist
and now YOU know that I know they exist.
It’s not the thing I am reviewing today!”
Now, everybody knows they exist.
Yet some muppet out there will _still_ query whether or not he knows such devices actually exist.
His comment about that made me lol ;)
@@OzRetrocomp Probably someone who comments before watching the whole video
@@karurosu3dx
Herpety-derp does he not know etc-etc!
To think I've been keeping my coffee warm in a vacuum flask like it's the dark ages.
You animal! :P
Such savagery years ago would have had you burned at the stake... so long as they made sure to update the stake's firmware.
Flasks are great. They keep hot things hot and cold things cold. What's in my flask? Tomato soup and a choc ice.
vacuum flask......retro hipster :)
I put mine in a vacuum thermos to take with me - but I do like actually DRINKING from a ceramic mug. So I pour from thermos to mug, then the coffee in the mug cools down while I drink it, so I top off with more from the thermos, which isn't as hot as I'd like because it's half mixed with cooler coffee, etc, etc.
This mug would be great for me. Now if it weren't $100...
I wonder what sort of insights can be derived from all that sweet, sweet beverage temperature data Ember is selling
Preferred temperatures, times, and consumption speed/frequency, both organized by region and by collation with other databases into individual profiles. Potentially _very_ useful advertising data with sufficient users.
The most important data point is probably that you had 60 spare bucks and blew it on an app-controlled mug.
@@spacenomad5484 Despite all the data being generated, I think you're right. Not to get too into it, but I personally don't think surveylance advertising results in much good for markets. The biggest data point here is that you're a sucker who will buy a $60 spy mug. Still a nifty gadget.
@@spacenomad5484 Or they collect no data about the mug, but they mine the data in other apps in your phone. A trojan mug, if you will.
Well, probably it just is an extra internet raep hole that the app installs to your phone, and they probably don't give a greasy shit about the actual mug except as a prop for their social engineering performance...
WE DEMAND A MUG TEARDOWN VIDEO! Let's see how she chooches!
If it's built anything like their travel mug, good luck. He'll need a hacksaw to get into it.
Gotta see what all those angry pixies are up to in there!
Hmmm... Isn't bigclivedotcom on Isle of Man? I wonder if he can get one of these. He does teardowns all the time of useless sh__, and even a lot of actually useful sh__.
They won't be in Poundland tho!
That would be a collab...
That "Your mug is up to date," had me laughing out loud.
That'd be F& hilarious if cops started saying that after they took your picture.
Such a boring dystopia
loud enough to buy the t shirt, from Matt's tspring?
"error - you bricked your mug."
I wonder if anyone's firmware update has actually bricked the mug
2001 People: "What are you doing with your watch?"
Techmoan: "I'm adjusting the temperature of my mug. Is that a minidisc player?!"
2021 people, I'd offer you a coffee, but unfortunately the new OS on my phone no longer supports my mugs.
Or if it was an Apple product, you update it and find the new software version doesn't support the warming feature. You try to flash the old firmware and Apple immediately bricks it until you prove it's yours, send it away to them and pay the unlock fee
@@tenmillionvolts Apple would make you buy a new one. It has got liquid damage. You should not have been irresponsible and put coffee in it.
@@tenmillionvolts sounds about right
@@zorktxandnand3774 1200$ for bend monitor pin (Lois Rosman fixed it for free). Nice false diagnostics to make you buy new laptop
I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier. Here we have a mug that, unlike a regular mug, is expensive, needs to be charged, sells your data, and needs to be washed by hand after each use because it can't be washed in the dishwasher. What a brilliant idea for a product.
You are one of the few people who I would listen to talk about a flippin wifi mug.
It doesn’t have wifi.
@@BlownMacTruck ok. But it has Bluetooth.
@@BlownMacTruck ok bluetooth
That whole bit with the firmware update is exactly how I felt trying to get a kitchen gadget, that has an on and off button and nothing more, connected to wifi recently. I no longer look forward to the flying cars of the future.
With an automatically applied firmware update mid flight which activates a reboot.
@@Techmoan all fly-by-wire aircraft do that already. It was actually the recommended resolution to the 737 Max stall bug before the FAA grounded them. It even worked! Just no-one told the pilots - it was in the manual but most of them relied on the instructor training supplied by Boeing, which didn’t mention it.
But you’re probably right to be concerned that rebooting an all-electric hover car might interrupt power to the turbines…
what gadget that has only a power button needs wifi?
@@Slash0mega One that is controlled only through a phone app.
@@Hansengineering I have a car with a giant touch screen and it sucks. You have to click through a menu to control the thermostat,, which of course has to load. What I used to do in 1/2 a second without looking by spinning a couple knobs now takes 3-4 while ALWAYS looking.
They need to heavily regulate what can and can't be touch screen controlled in a car. It's going to get people killed.
I'm turning 35 this year; you can't say I'm a technophobic person, quiet the opposite. But I'm already feeling too old for this thing. Flippin 'eck.
Well there's no reason someone should like this product. They only made this to grab data from people's phones.
I'm 25 and feel the same.
Technology can be used to make your life easier, but this is impractical and totally stupid.
Mankind was able to drink their coffee hot all the time and now, you need a mug with your smartphone to keep it hot, because you get too distracted to drink your coffee nowadays?
Back to the roots.
Technology seems like a drug that is running your life.
Yeah, same. I used to enjoy new technology, but these days are long gone. Now I´m only enjoying tech that was new 30 years ago.
What shall I say with my mere 26 years
@@jojodroid31 stupid comment. there's no reason to believe this
My dad actually has this mug! He got it several years ago and I definitely laughed at him when he got it. However, he does like it a lot. He tends to sip tea slowly while working, so in normal mugs his tea tends to get cold and then he has to keep running upstairs to microwave it. This mug keeps his tea just the right temperature for a long time.
"I'm pretty sure there isn't one person on the planet who wants an Ember sticker" brutal
I won one of the first ones at a office xmas raffle. You know. It was good. Its one of those stupid things that sounds stupid, and you think is stupid. But after a month I loved it. Made tea at my desk, kept my coffee warm when i was interrupted by a long call etc
@@PandorasFolly Totally. At the start of the video, I needed more than convincing this is something anybody would want or need. By the end I found myself having to talk myself out of buying one.
@@reeffeeder put it on your xmas/bday gift list
@@jfolz i dunno what to say man. Go lobby for more privacy and make data selling unprofitable
@@jfolz .. And a smart-phone tied to either Google or Apple.
-- "Your mug is up to date", I should get that printed on a T-shirt.
-- Hold on, my T-shirt is updating its own firmware.
he has made that t shirt, come back and check the details below the video.
@@fumthings LOOOOOOOOOOL! Thanks for the _Update_ !
My shirt just crashed! And I can't find the charge lead for my socks!
@@skylined5534 Or my heated jacket! All the things we thought were never going to happen are becoming reality! Before flying cars!
Her: "Honey, can you make me a cup of tea?"
He: "Sorry dear, no can do, the mug is still charging."
Mug: "Your drink cannot be heated until you have installed the latest update."
Proof that too much tecnology is a waste of time.
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
@@jmtrad1906 You can still use it without the heating lol
Her: "Honey, can you make me a cup of tea?"
He: "The hot mug is still charging, want me to use your Pikachu mug?"
Her: "That would be great! thank you dear."
"Merry Christmas, Mom! Enjoy your new mug. One thing, can I keep all the "Ember" stickers?"
This type of device does only one thing, but it does that perfectly; it separates people from their money!
"I bricked my mug, so I threw it away" I can see someone saying that....
I hear microwaves fast charge your mug!
The escalator at the mall was bricked, so I had to walk all the way to the other side and take the stairs instead
@@plan7a Your Aperture Laboratories Bluetooth-connected Companion Mug will not offer you any advice, and in fact, cannot speak. Should it speak, please disregard anything it says.
I feel like such a Luddite watching this video while drinking my coffee, prepared using an early 21st century coffee maker and a coffee mug that hasn't had a firmware update since 1527.
I use a drip maker that is just a switch. It doesn't even have a program function.
This seems overcomplicated. Just have the heated coaster or a heated rod that goes in a normal mug.
@@groundzero_-lm4md To be fair, the idea is always getting your personal favorite temperature. But in truth it would probably get monotonous after some time. There's something grounding about the ritual of drinking coffee as the Universe takes it from too-hot, to just-right, to too-cold. "Love that, not Man Apart from that"...
I make coffee & tea in a 1948-74 Pyrex coffee percolator. I don't know the exact date cos it doesn't have a serial number. It's clear, you can see the stuff get darker. And it's delicious. When I cook Mint Tea, the whole house smells minty.
Having the electronics integrated into the mug seems like it has a lot of inconveniences w.r.t. cleaning. But the big issue in my eyes is that what actually is the value of having this controlled via Bluetooth with an app over a physical interface? The only value I can see is that if you've already poured your drink and walked away from it, but decided you wanted to turn it off or change the temp. And even then, you'd have to be in Bluetooth range, so why wouldn't it be easier to just walk a few feet over and press a power button?
@@AngryKnees Well, my uncle's air conditioner has a remote. He kept it on the table, next to the couch...
...three feet from the F& air conditioner.
You can't make that shit up.
Stirring your coffee with a sharpie is just pure chaos, yet you did it so casually
No one’s going to mention he stirred his coffee with a Sharpie? Techmoan is a LEGEND! 😂
I was going to get to that. Presumably not the business end, though.
I used to stir my tea with the handle of a letter opener
😂
Never a dull video with Techmoan!
Definitely
This product will keep my people warm during the winter
Another great video. £51 so far on ebay with 7 bids
@@djpaul146 i refuse to spend that kind of money on my people
He's a master
1985: The Future is going to be awesome... with flying cars, hover boards and holographic sharks!!!
2021: Now you can keep your coffee mildly warmer in a rechargeable cup
This is the next Juicero incoming. When that app gets dead, that mug gets dead, too…
"Mug" is definitely the word that comes to mind.
We're one step away from the Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf being a real thing.
Kinda surprised that ISN'T currently a thing!
I already have the Patent for it.
Hopefully no talking cat, though.
"I havnen't had my coffee today. My mug wouldn't update!" The true decline of western civilization.
"I haven't had my coffee today because my mug has updated" is more likely these days.
"everything needs an app now"
People have accused me of having a smart mug. I did not know they were years ahead of time.
Imagine having to explain to someone in the past that you're not pouring your drink since you're waiting for your mug to charge. Incredible times.
And in 15 years from now we get Techmoan videos about changing liquifying drive belts in those classic auto-stir smart mugs made before the Great Mugpocalypse of 2027.
I'm waiting for the upcoming release of the 'Clever Carafe' - when it's nearing less than a full glass of wine in its capacity it automatically places an online order of at least 3 bottles of suitable wine to waitrose for immediate, emergency delivery.
Detective: "The perpetrator can't have gone far, the coffee in his mug at the scene is still hot."
Detective's tech-savvy subordinate: "There's this thing called CZcams..."
Wake-up in the morning be like "ahhh... i forgot to charge my mug" what a future..
I use a $5 candle warmer for my coffee...
to date, I've never had to update the firmware :D
How many dollars worth of candles have you used?
@@mattgies Probably less than $5 a year in candle costs.
Bag of 100 tealight candles in the UK is £2.50, with a 3.5 hour burn time each, so at a full hour a day, every day, it's still only one bag a year.
Even using one candle every day it's still only £7.50 a year, or about $10.
In 10 years the cost is similar to the mug, by which time the mug will be obsolete and useless. Electricity to charge the mug isn't likely to be free either.
@@jwflame I think I'll still pass on burning candles. I'm not trying to increase the amount of particulate matter in the air I breathe.
Paraffin is pretty firm.
The trade off is you’re breathing in harmful chemicals every day
If I learned something from Curb Your Enthusiasm it’s that self-heating mugs are not to be toyed with
"don't have a spoon, I'm going to have to use a Sharpie" 😃
Perhaps he only had a smart spoon but the firmware wasn't up to date and the spoon couldn't reach its full stirring capacity.
I'm thinking about why that part was not removed from the video.
@Andy Merrett I’m sure they’ll add stirring in a later model.
That you can activate via an IAP.
For $1.99 a month, with the pitch that that’s “less than a cup of coffee”.
Oh my goodness. On the new DuckTales show they had a joke about these. I never thought this was going to be a real product.
I've thought the same, poor Mark Beaks. :D
Well they made smart shoes, smart suitcases, and the like
@@alphagiga4878 didn't iCarly have a joke about smart shoes?
Love your sense of humor, a classic episode of yours mate!
Stirring coffe from expensive coffe machine,in a high tech 60 quid mug using a Sharpie is something I see myself doing in the future
The real question is, do you lick the sharpie clean afterwards ?
@@criggie you bet I will
@@sanddebil Wich side of it? xD
@@macdaniel6029 yes
@@criggie He does because they're his favorite buttsharpies.
They gave these out as Christmas gifts for ikea employees a couple of years ago, and I got my my bro’s as a hand me down. I used this all the time in the office and became spoiled about my coffee or tea temperature.
The taste still deteriorates oved time
Along with the app-connected propane tank holder, the wifi-enabled christmas lights, and the bluetooth-enabled barbecue thermometer... There was a line uttered in Jurassic Park that sums it all right up that went something like this - "You were so busy thinking that you could, that you never stopped to think whether or not you should".
I love these videos. Always have liked your channel but all your videos are very interesting and thorough.
10 year ago i'd just assumed you posted the video 2 days late. But in 2021, everything seems perfectly normal to me, and for some reason that bothers me.
The next time you make a puppet sketch it really needs to have a smart mug gag in it.
These smart devices are so amazing!
For example, let me compare the old way of opening my garage to the "smart" way
Circa 2014:
Press single button on my visor while pulling into the neighborhood. Replace battery every 2 years.
Circa 2021: Rush home before phone battery dies.
Park car.
Remove phone from pocket.
Turn on screen.
Unlock screen.
Scroll to right home page.
Press app icon.
Wait 10 seconds for app to open and connect to internet.
Wait another 5 seconds for app to login to mandatory account.
Scroll past the ad.
Press 'my garage' icon in app.
Press 'open door'.
Wait a few seconds to see if it actually sent the signal.
Turn on GPS tracking to see if that helps.
Repeat until it works, occasionally having to give up, go inside, and open the door manually.
Truly, we live in a golden age of technology.
It'd be alright if you could control everything from one app, and if it was done well. Because, then, you aren't left with a tacky gimmick that'll go obsolete in 3 hours when the company either folds or decides that you can't have a useful feature because you don't give them enough money, because that's all these are. I can definitely see the merits of most of this smart tech, and really appreciate how much better my life would be in a perfect world where companies didn't see us as walking wallets, but stuff like this mug is the equivalent of a shiny sticker that says "You're the best!"; it's just a gimmick to make you feel better about giving another £20 to a fat greedy businessman, that has no merit to its existence. Your phone is a seriously powerful tool that really has the potential to revolutionise your life, but that's mostly stunted by aforementioned cash-cowing executives deciding that a better day is nothing if they're not making enough income to support their oh-so-first world problems like only having a medium portion of fries
You have no idea how pleasant and informative your videos are. Please keep going.
and his wonderfully soothing voice...
A coffee mug sending notifications ending with ‘Enjoy!’? Douglas Adams would be so proud.
"Your plastic mug who's fun to be with!"
Share and enjoy...!!
Cup after cup of perfectly warmed liquid almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Share and enjoy(TM)!
@@plan7a then it’s only a matter of time before it starts demanding a ransom not to talk to your doctor about your excessive coffee consumption...
@@plan7a we have unleashed a monster! Now all we need to do is sell the film rights.
That's exactly what I need. An electronic mug so I can get an "app crashed" notification when I'm drinking so all the hot tea gets spilled in my lap.
And wait until the cloud service powering the mug shuts down and you're left with something that can be replicated with a 50p plastic beaker.
Wait for evil hackers installing ransomware on your mug. Pay 10€ now or your coffee will stay cold forever.
Next year you will need a payed subscription to make your mug work. And you need to log in with a facebook accont.
what happens when you get a text notification while you are drinking tea?
@Mac Daniel Alternatively, your mug could get hacked and become part of a botnet where it’s used to mine cryptocurrency, therefore staying hot forever.
i have been keenly interested in these things so this was really helpful. thanks for sharing!
Gosh darn! I love your videos! You should get a podcast going. I’d love to hear you talk about literally anything!
To think that 2000 years from now, our descendants will be digging up ancient landfill sites, finding these things and wondering what the heck we were thinking.....
They won't be able to work out what it is because they won't be able to get the firmware updates 😁
You had me at “Information super-highway”
I've used an Ember mug for a few years now. I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT! I love my hot coffee and hot tea. Tea 145F and coffee 141F(milk proteins in my coffee cook higher that 141F and would form a skin on top of the coffee at 145F). The battery isn't an issue because it lives on its coaster/charger. It has its problems but I can't live without it. I barely ever use the app. It seems to lose connection to my phone maybe once every 2 months. The charging coaster has a problem, that as far as I know they haven't fixed yet, but the repair is simple and there are many yoputube vids on it.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the problem with the coaster. The springy contacts lose their springiness, but its easy to take the coaster apart and just remove the plastic bit from around the contacts, and the problem is fixed.
It's very interesting how it works. Following is from someone in an Amazon review that explains it very well. "Ed Harris
Understanding How an Ember Mug Works Makes It Work Better!
June 20, 2017
Color: Black
I have had my Ember mug since November 2016 and absolutely love it, so I was curious about some of the 3 star and lower reviews. Upon reading these, it is clear that a number of purchasers (and potential purchasers) don't fully understand how the mug actually works. Ember really needs to do a much better job of explaining this (probably with a cute, animated video), but here is what is actually going on:
It looks like many people think that this is a battery operated/heated mug - not an unreasonable asasumption since you do, after all, have to charge the battery. What really happens is much more interesting. Inside the walls of the mug is something that is called a Phase Changer Material (PCM). When I brew a cup of coffee in my Keurig coffee maker directly into the mug, the initial temperature is about 175 degrees with a target of 140 degrees. What the Ember mug does is to extract the heat from the coffee and store it in the PCM. In this case, the material starts out in a waxy form and liquifies as it absorbs heat. This fairly quickly cools the coffee down to the desired temperature, but in the process the PCM becomes a heat storage "battery". Once the coffee reaches 140 degrees and starts to cool, the mug senses this and extracts heat from the PCM "battery" and uses that to maintain the temperature rather than directly heating the coffee using normal battery power.
If you understand this is how it works, then it is easy to understand why some people are not happy with the battery life. Basically, the hotter the initial temperature, the more storage capacity in the PCM "battery", and the longer it can maintain the coffee at the desired temperature. My coffee maker at my cabin is a smaller unit that requires me to brew the coffee into a measuring cup and pour it into the Ember mug. I also noticed that the initial temperature there is about 154 degrees. That means that the Ember mug at my cabin can't maintain my ideal coffee temperature for as long as it does at home because the PCM "battery" is not as fully charged. In fact, one day I got busy and forgot to pour the coffee into the Ember mug until it was just under 140 degrees. Normally I would expect the mug to quickly heat the coffee to the desired 140 degree temperature, but with essentially no PCM "battery" charge, it took longer than usual to get to the desired temperature and I am sure it would not have maintained the temperature for very long.
So, once you understand this, you will realize that want to brew directly into the mug if possible and transfer it to the charger until it is ready to drink if you can do that. If not, as soon as your coffee is brewed, make sure you transfer it into the Ember mug as soon as you can and it will be able maintain the desired temperature for the maximum period of time. If you do this, I think you will find that you will have no issues with how long the Ember mug can maintain the desired temperature."
"I was in danger of turning the mug into a brick!"
If you did a video about bricks, you'd be way ahead of the Half As Interesting (HAI) channel! 😂
But you can't brick a mug. It's just like an escalator. If an escalator breaks down it simply becomes stairs.
"...Your brick is up to date!"
3:40 "Your mug is up to date"
"You can now drink your morning coffee"
I have one of these. Love it....keeps my coffee warm
this was so funny! love your vids as always.
'... surfing the information super highway ...' 🤣
Yeah, that got me too. The smallest hint of irony had me convinced that this product was a joke for most of the video
Well, my rice cooker is connected to my WIFI, too. It's kinda neat. But let me quote New Model Army here: "Both you and I, we never asked for any of this" 😂
She stares at her screen, with the little words of green - but with the option to change to any of 16,700,000 colours...
You've actually got me considering this. Tea going cold happens far too often for me as I'll forget about it
Same and I buy expensive teas so having them go cold really grates.
I just turned 20 and even I'm surprised you have to update a mug
"Your mug is up to date" I would love to see that on a t-shirt! I would buy it!
Kudos to the Ember engineer who came up with that message. It was super inspired.
This would an even more essential product if it had more RGB.
Perfect idea for a gift for my wife's birthday. Thanks!
Best review of a mug ever!!!
An app controlled mug. I think I need an app controlled app. Also, app controlled clothes. In fact, I want nothing to work if I don't have internet, or forgot my account password. One fuse blows, or my phone dies, and I'll starve and freeze to death! IT'S THE FUTURE!
Edit: Sharpie? Did you forget to charge your spoon?
Ah shit I think i forgot to renew the subscription to my keyboapüw3 w̷2̴ ǰ̴̣ ̸̲̌ḁ̸̏o̵̝̒
Lol! Good one 😂🍴☕
App-controlled clothes do exist. I have a hat that has built-in headphones. There's also a shirt that has a peltier cooler built-in. There's a backpack that has a USB charger, not sure if that counts. But I've seen T-shirts with LED screens, and I've also seen clothes that can change color or light up via app control. App-controlled spoons also exist, some count calories, others are for people with disabilities, they stabilize the spoon if your hand shakes.
That's not enough. How about book shelves that collapse if they aren't connected to the internet? A hammer that will only hammer nails with RFID's? A vinyl player that will only play records if it can find it in an online media database?
I need it ALL!
There is no spoon. As we all well know :)
Brilliant. That’s all I can say. Just brilliant. Your mug is up to date. I mean. Good god.
I was a little confused about the title, I thought the google auto-translate did something funny, but then I realized that the brand name is really "Ember". In Hungarian, the word "Ember" means "Human"... :D
Love that you used the BA boarding music :)
I was gifted the travel mug version almost 4 years ago and it’s actually quite amazing making a cup of coffee in the morning and having it “perfect” for a good few hours
ROTFL ! ! A firmware update for a mug :-) This really made my day!
I've been using this version 1 Ember mug for over two years now and I love it. I use it differently though. I drink (licorice) tea and I always forget to drink it all before it gets cold. Sometimes it'll be an hour before I remember to take another sip. So this is perfect in that sense. I use it in my home office and at the actual office. I don't have a water heater in either place and with this mug, I don't need it. I just pour cold water in the mug and it'll heat up to my desired temperature. If you're like me, I can highly recommend this mug to you. Haven't tried version 2 yet but I assume it's the same type of experience.
What am I doing with my life?
I’m over here using a kettle, and wolfing down my coffee to get it drunk while still hot.
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Mr Bean style
So... you could call the firmware upates "Cupdates" ;)
Also James Hoffmann did a similar video few years ago, you might wanna check it out ^^
Yes, the James Hoffmann review is very entertaining in that "James Hoffmann" way.
lol, "cupdates" :D Very good, so many creatives here :)
Seen them in Latte Larry's!
Amazing review. I was keeping this product in my wishlist since long and you’ve explained everything about it. Great work. Please review other heated disks too! I want to know what works n what doesn’t
This is when you realize that the name "Techmoan" wasn't necessarily as completely arbitrary as the legends suggest.
I can imagine, years from now, my grandchildren shall ask, "Grandad, tell us again about the olden days, the days before we had techno-mugs".
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Stirring your espresso with a sharpie, classic Techmoan!
This is the main use for my sharpie.
I like how he cut the audio before we heard him suck the coffee off it.
not just any coffee, a retro-turbo-enbeanulator cup of morning alert!
Well, I wouldn't call 285ml of liquid as "espresso" :) That is usually a couple of ml only, maybe 10, if it is _long_ :)
I gotta say, I was enthralled. A fine review.
I have the travel mug 2 and can't live without it!
At last! Now I can stir my tea without having to use my WiFi smart spoon which took ages to pair with my smart tea bags 😆
I've no idea how people without smart tea bags know when to remove the bag. Their tea must taste awful.
I don’t get how you people can stomach the taste of nanomachines.
@@acoolerhandle It's only a problem if you buy the cheap smart tea. The quality ones have their shells constructed from totally inert materials.
If this kind of stuff ever became popular imagine some hacker overheating it and then just waiting for the fireworks.
i've gotten my mom one of these for christmas a few years ago, she loves the thing
I Got this mug as a Xmas present last year, the best gift ever.
Good job I'm watching this now and not on April 1st! I don't think there's a place in my life for one of these though.
My eyes are on fire, it’s 5AM. But Techmoan released a new video darn it!
I laughed a little too much when he stirred the coffee with a sharpie. Best part! 😂
This device has solved a problem for me too. I'm getting one thanks to you, Uncle Matt :) I am a repairer of consumer goods and computers. So many times I put my coffee down, and am so busy tinkering, by the time I remember, it's stone cold. Even a Thermos doesn't keep the temperature forever. This is cool, and as a tech lover, I want one. Thanks, Matt, everyone's favourite CZcams Uncle :)