The craziest %#*$ing thing I've seen all day... - Page 311

#3103: Post by **Marcelnl** » July 8th, 2021, 4:39 am

love those shiny black beans

#3104: Post by **dominico** » July 8th, 2021, 4:49 pm

Italy is already saturated with self serve superautomatic espresso machines; I can even get ginseng added to most of them if I want. I can't fathom why they'd decide to start competing in this space.

July 21st, 2021, 3:28 pm

Alexa, make me a cappuccino ... (Lavazza capsule machine with Alexa buit-in)
https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/the- ... hands-free

#3106: Post by **RobAnybody** » July 23rd, 2021, 2:09 am

wait, you have to first walk to the machine and manually load a cup right? wouldn't pushing the button be faster than having to shout at alexa? (unless you are a shouty person before you had coffee, then it makes sense)
next upgrade it will also track cup use and automatically buy new ones when needed

cheers,
Rob

#3107: Post by **yakster** » July 23rd, 2021, 2:32 am

Reminds me of the first Web Cam, pointed at a coffee pot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

#3108: Post by **Marcelnl** » July 23rd, 2021, 5:51 am

Opening the official national system to check Covid vaccination status etc., got my GF a virus warning from the OS on her computer

July 23rd, 2021, 10:13 am

yakster wrote:Reminds me of the first Web Cam, pointed at a coffee pot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

The Internet was better back then ... or maybe that's just nostalgia for long-winded FAQ's:
http://coffeeopolis.com/espresso-faq/
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/Coffee/coffaq.html
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/coffee/
http://users.rcn.com/erics/Water%20Qual ... %20FAQ.pdf

August 3rd, 2021, 7:23 pm

This has been out for a few years ... but Salvatore demonstrating "Thermal Reserve brewing" i.e., steam pressure percolation coffee brewing like you see in pictures of 1950's Italian coffee bars. I've never seen a working one.