coffee

I do not usually write about commercial products. They can hire there own hacks. But this is special. The Tassimo brand coffee maker. It reads bar codes!! It looks like an ordinary counter top appliance, a little small, but still it has all the features of a regular brewer. Place to put water, warming plate, and buttons. It does what a normal coffee creating device does, it brews coffee. But in an extraordinary way. You see it READS BAR CODES. Yes it has a bar code reader and a little tiny brain. You put these little prepackaged "T-disc" of coffee, they look like a little flat plastic bowl, in it and it reads the bar code marked clearly on the outside and brews the prefect cup of coffee. Every time. How cool is that? It saves you all the trouble of measuring out coffee and pressing a couple extra buttons! And when it is done just toss out the little plastic cup with the grounds.

It just brews one cup at a time so everyone gets to line up and brew their own special premixed blend.

Tassimo, I don't mind the idea of needing a coffee maker with its own logic chip and holographic optical device. What is bizarre is the price of the little plastic disposable dish for every individual cup of coffee.

OWL

Dec. 18, 2011