Category: Connected Kitchen
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Peanut butter and chocolate is probably a slightly odd comparison to make when talking about home beer brewing appliances, but that’s kind of the feeling you get when learning about the new partnership between Brewie and Plaato. Brewie is a connected home beer brewing appliance that pretty much automates the entire beer brewing process… until…
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This week, Anova launched a new sous vide cooker targeted towards professionals, the Anova Precision Cooker Pro. The new $399 circulator, available at Anova’s website or on Amazon, which was designed to withstand the higher demands of professional kitchens, is actually Anova’s second stab at the pro market. In a post on the Anova blog,…
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Last week, news broke that ChefSteps had laid off a significant percentage of its staff. At the time, it was unclear what the future held for the company other than an assurance from company CEO Chris Young that the Seattle startup and its flagship hardware product, the Joule sous vide appliance, would live on. Now, thanks to…
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ChefSteps, the Seattle startup which began life as an online culinary community and recipe site before expanding into hardware with the Joule sous vide appliance, has laid off a significant percentage of the staff according to reports. The news of the layoffs was first leaked via food delivery review site Food Oasis, which was told…
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One of the biggest challenges for an appliance manufacturer navigating through the IoT era is finding or developing the necessary technologies around which to build their products. Not only do they have to incorporate new chipsets, software and subsystems, but they also have to make sure these new products can serve as a technology foundation for…
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Indoor farming company Seedo announced it will manufacture more than 1,800 of its indoor grow boxes in Q2 of 2019. Seedo’s device is a self-contained, airtight box that looks like a mini-fridge and automates the process of growing herbs and vegetables hydroponically. The device pairs with a smartphone app that lets users choose a grow…
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Hestan Smart Cooking, the company behind the Hestan Cue guided cooking system, has laid off approximately 40% of its staff the Spoon has learned. The layoffs come amid a shift to what Stanley Cheng, the founder and CEO of parent company Meyer, describes as a new phase focused on “selling”. Hestan Smart has “just entered…
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Nowadays, there’s any number of ways to have a hydroponic farm at home: wall-mounted gardens, countertop farms, and pillars that grow fresh greens. The latter is possible thanks to actress Zooey Deschanel’s new startup Lettuce Grow, through which she and her husband Jacob Pechenik launched the Farmstand, their take on a hydroponic farm. Farmstand, which…
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If you love beer and are contemplating backing a crowdfunded home brew machine — don’t. This free advice is brought to you by more than a year of covering Kickstarted beer campaigns, most of which have taken the public’s money, only to shut down before shipping any product. Following in the steps of Brewbot and…
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Smart Spirits is a new entrant in the at-home, pod-based, connected countertop cocktail appliance market (hat tip to The Drinks Business). Though unlike it’s competition, Smart Spirits doesn’t make mixed cocktails, it’s system creates a simulacra of straight up booze like whiskey, gin, rum and more. Smart Spirits is basically a Keurig for spirits, with…
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Back when I worked at Gigaom, every year we’d invite Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on stage at our big cloud computing conference and interview him about the future of the Internet and distributed computing. Nowadays Vogels is conducting his own interviews, heading out to far-flung locales to talk to innovators about how they are using…
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It may be hard to remember in a world with Hulu, Netflix, and Apple TV Apple TV+, but back in the early 2000s one of the coolest new technologies was this thing called the digital video recorder (DVR). Better known by the brand name TiVo (“Hey, did you TiVo Sopranos last night?”), these “magic” boxes…
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