Category: CES
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Every year, the average office worker uses 500 single-use paper coffee cups, most of which end up in landfills. Plastic cup and bottle waste is even worse. One obvious answer to reducing or eliminating all this waste is to replace single-use beverage containers with washable, reusable cups or glasses. The problem with this is many…
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Food tech startup Minnow showed off their contactless, asynchronous smart lockers for food delivery at CES 2022 — and The Spoon got a demo and sat down to talk to CEO Steven Sperry. Minnow began shipping the pods in the last four weeks through Hatco, a manufacturing partner who creates Minnow pods on demand. On…
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A few years ago, it might have seemed bizarre to anyone to have meatless crumbles, vegan cheese, or molecular alcohol alongside smart home and digital health tech on the show floor. But with the launch of Impossible Foods in 2020, CES has started to embrace a wider definition of food tech — one that goes…
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From mushroom tech to smart food lockers to a fresh food life extension device, food tech innovation shows up in a big way on Day 1 at the first hybrid digital and in-person event since the start of the pandemic. Follow @TheSpoonTech for news and updates.
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This week at CES, Samsung, Haier (and its subsidiary GE Appliances), Electrolux, and others announced the formation of the Home Connectivity Alliance, a group focused on fostering cloud-to-cloud interoperability across different home appliances. The organization, which was incorporated in September 2021, is focused on solving a big problem for the smart home: incompatibility across different…
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When asked at Smart Kitchen Summit in 2017 what appliance he was waiting for to make its way to the consumer kitchen, award-winning chef Philip Tessier said, “the combi oven.” As it turns out, Tessier wasn’t the only chef that day who thought a steam-powered consumer kitchen was a good idea. When asked the same…
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We’re prepping our floor walk plan for CES 2022, figuring out what food tech gadgets (other than robots, that is) we want to check out. We thought we’d share four of them with you. The products previewed are The Fresh Portal home delivery storage locker, the Bru smart tea maker, the Keddle baby milk warmer…
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At CES 2022 this week, there will be a bunch of automated food-making machines on display. So with the big tech show starting in just two days, I thought I’d make a quick walk-around guide for those looking to do the food robots tour at CES 2022. Beyond Honeycomb While we don’t know a lot…
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In 2022, CES, like most everything nowadays, is a bit different than in the before times. For one, it’s going to be shorter. There will be fewer big companies and way fewer people. And forget about the after-parties. But even with all those changes, CES is still happening (after going entirely virtual last year), and…
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If one of your new year’s resolutions is to pack better lunches for your kids or yourself, here’s one way you might do that: with a steam-heated lunchbox. That’s the idea behind the Steambox, a connected lunchbox that will heat food up with a push of a button. Here’s how the Steambox works: Working like…
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Each January for the past couple of decades, I’ve packed up my suitcase and headed to the Nevada desert to take part in the world’s biggest tech show, CES. I’m not alone. CES is the singular tech show that pretty much every major industry attends along with those who watch and follow those industries. This…
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