Went to wd-50 in June with my sis- absolutely loved it. Anyone who actually lives in NYC who hasn't been owes it to themselves to check it out. Suggestion: bring a credit card with a high ceiling....
i can pretty much hear how full a cup is without an aid and i would assume blind folks are 100x better at it than me and therefore wouldn't need this beep boop cup to get their coffee on.
I like this invention. I've worked with a lot of people who live with disabilities and am always interested in the novel approaches to everyday life tasks that some inventors come up with.
sounds good but let me pose a few questions:
1.) How will hey know when the pot is full to the "12 cups" line when filling up the maker with water? Will that chime too Braun?
2.) How will they know when the proper amount of grounds are filling the filter?
If you are gonna go all out Braun, go all out. Save some thumbs from grounds and cold water, just not from scorching hot coffee.
What's this? Something not made by brando? What a breath of fresh air!
I might have to get one, simply because it bears my name. That and I like to cook.
I am all for gadgets, but I have yet to have a problem getting the right amount in a measuring cup. Depending on the price, this product may not deliver a worth while time saving convince to justify the cost.
@appletoad: I'm not seeing what kind of precision there is here. If, like the water dispenser on my fridge, it goes 1C, 1 1/4C, 1 1/3C, 1 1/2C etc, it isn't very accurate at all. You can probably eyeball a normal liquid measure a lot better than 1/12th of a cup.
@AmphetamineCrown: but as quickly as this does it? Yes, when I make my Hamburger Helper Stroganoff, I eyeball it and am likely off by a little bit. But when tweaking amounts for your own recipe, it would be nice to use however much liquid you feel you should, and have the cup digitally display the exact amount, then hit the save button, dump it in, and write that amount you used down.
@appletoad: Well, actually, yeah, I think a normal measure is just as quick. The mechanism in this probably has to be on a level counter to read accurately as well, so it's the difference between looking at the top of it and looking at the side of it. I don't see the time savings, frankly.
And, think about the precision. This thing has, as far as I can tell, no reading between 0C and 1/4C. So, it presumably reads anything below 1/8C as "0" and between 1/8th and 7/24ths as 1/4C (above 7/24ths, it would read 1/3C). That is 1/6C error.
With a clear liquid measure, I'll bet I can get a pretty damn accurate 1/8C by halving the gradations between 0 and 1/4C, and I'd bet I could even do a pretty good job of hitting 1/12C by taking 1/3rd of the gradations between 0 and 1/4C. That is twice the accuracy of this cup and I'm not even a pro.
@-zargon-: I agree. Me and my Pyrex measuring cup have been doing fine. Most cooks just eyeball their ingredients and aren't that anal about measurements. If you need to be this precise then I have to question your cooking abilities.
@selianth: Right. Which is why in baking, you should use a scale, not a measuring cup, for dry measures and what ugadawg uses--a pyrex liquid cup--for wet measures. Cooks Illustrated did a write up on accuracy not too long ago, and people get very accurate with liquid measures--as long as they are using something designed to measure liquid. Turns out the pyrex measures and the like are pre-calibrated to compensate for the meniscus. Who knew?
@yungjerry703: wait.. please explain. I've never heard this before. You flip the chopsticks around when grabbing from a community plate? And then set it on your plate...and then flip back to the normal side and it eat? That makes sense..I guess. I had never heard of this. I need to learn more.
It hasn't been a problem for me though.. If I'm sharing a community plate, then I don't mind swapping spit with them.
@jcrockerman: This is one of those tricky things in life that not everyone does, but some people are adamant about.
As with most of these types of tricky things, the key is to not be the first to act. If you find yourself eating asian cuisine family style, sit back. See what the oldest people in the group do (or what other people do if they are serving the oldest people), and then do the same.
I am curious at how color fast this material is. I would worry SOME coffee properties would remain and its very staining. I dont want coffee spots all over the laundry. (They should make this into a robe, what better thing to smell like coffee.)
1) Almost certainly the product is not going to smell like coffee.
2) They have processed the grounds so much that they have managed to make yarn out of it, then into sheets of fabric, dyed and then stitched into clothing. The dyes used after the process should be more of a concern and no more than any other article of clothing.
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1.) How will hey know when the pot is full to the "12 cups" line when filling up the maker with water? Will that chime too Braun?
2.) How will they know when the proper amount of grounds are filling the filter?
If you are gonna go all out Braun, go all out. Save some thumbs from grounds and cold water, just not from scorching hot coffee.
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I might have to get one, simply because it bears my name. That and I like to cook.
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And, think about the precision. This thing has, as far as I can tell, no reading between 0C and 1/4C. So, it presumably reads anything below 1/8C as "0" and between 1/8th and 7/24ths as 1/4C (above 7/24ths, it would read 1/3C). That is 1/6C error.
With a clear liquid measure, I'll bet I can get a pretty damn accurate 1/8C by halving the gradations between 0 and 1/4C, and I'd bet I could even do a pretty good job of hitting 1/12C by taking 1/3rd of the gradations between 0 and 1/4C. That is twice the accuracy of this cup and I'm not even a pro.
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It hasn't been a problem for me though.. If I'm sharing a community plate, then I don't mind swapping spit with them.
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As with most of these types of tricky things, the key is to not be the first to act. If you find yourself eating asian cuisine family style, sit back. See what the oldest people in the group do (or what other people do if they are serving the oldest people), and then do the same.
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1) Almost certainly the product is not going to smell like coffee.
2) They have processed the grounds so much that they have managed to make yarn out of it, then into sheets of fabric, dyed and then stitched into clothing. The dyes used after the process should be more of a concern and no more than any other article of clothing.
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Now a lot of people here can't even afford the shirts that are literally made of someone's trash.