I don’t want my current refrigerator to break, but if it should happen to accidentally fall out of a second story window, I know what I’ll replace it with: The LG InstaView fridge. The InstaView fridge comes equipped with knock-on technology that lets you see what’s inside by knocking on its surface, without ever having…
The Spoon team has a heavily caffeinated conversation for this week’s podcast. Here are the stories we discuss: With traffic down due to the pandemic, Cafe X shuts down its airport robot baristas Atomo coffee raises $9 million for ‘molecular’ coffee Another week, another ghost kitchen funding Are mobile menus the next big application for…
LeanPath today announced a new mobile version of its product that helps fight food waste in commercial kitchens. The new LeanPath Go is an item-based mobile tracking system that the company claims was specifically designed for the changes COVID-19 has brought to food operators, namely the shutting down of buffets and hot bars. Typically, LeanPath’s…
Vitamix is the latest appliance-maker to address the issue of food waste in the consumer kitchen. The company today announced the launch of its Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50, a device that turns food scraps into additives for soil consumers can then use in their gardens. The device itself is compact enough to fit on a kitchen…
What if food labels could tell you in real time if your food has gone bad? That’s the vision of a UK-based startup that has developed a set of smart food labels to determine food freshness. The labels do this via an embedded sensor that detects the ammonia levels being produced by the food. As…
Looking at the homepage for the new SodaStream Professional is like looking back in time. The page features pictures of the connected sparkling water device in the middle of an office as workers stride by, seemingly without a care in the world, sans facemasks. I bring that up not to poke fun at Pepsico, but…