Category: Video
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Not all kitchen innovation has to be high-tech to have a great story. In fact, the tale of fourteen-year-old inventor RJ Batts is one of the cooler stories I heard this week at the Housewares show in Chicago. Standing at his booth among rows of other makers and creators more than twice or thrice his age, RJ told me how his…
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First they helped take pancake making next-level with the PancakeBot, a pancake robot that helps the cook go beyond those Mickey Mouse and Death Star cakes you made for your kids into the world of pancake selfies. And now, StoreBound, a home product innovation company founded by longtime housewares executive Evan Dash (a recent guest on the Smart…
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Amidst the coffee makers, cookware and bartenderbots in Chicago this week at the International Home and Housewares Show, SproutsIO stood out as the one and only maker of a connected microgarden. The SproutsIO microgarden, which allows an individual to grow vegetables in their home without soil or sunlight, is headed to market this year after a successful…
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Somabar has started shipping production units of its robot bartender to beta testers.
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The Spoon is at the Housewares Show in Chicago this week and is stopping by some of the booths at the Smart Home Pavilion to see what the companies have brewing. At my first stop I visited with Joe Behm, CEO of Behmor, a maker of high quality coffee brewers and roasters for specialty coffee connoisseurs. Back in…
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We’ve been following Dave Arnold’s latest project, the Spinzall, since the very beginning, and today the chef-meets-mad-scientist released an update on the crowdfunding campaign for his culinary centrifuge system. In a video update which can be seen above, Arnold said despite missing his crowdfunding target, he was able to reduce the number of Spinzall units required for the first…
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Ever wondered what a dino burger tastes like? The answer is ostrich or emu. While this may come as a surprise to some (I would have guessed lizard), what isn’t surprising is the guy who provided us with the answer: Nathan Myhrvold. That’s because Myhrvold is one of the few people on the planet that can…
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How do subscription models and the smart kitchen fit together? That’s what Brita Rosenheim, the founder of Rosenheim Advisors, wanted to find out at last month’s Smart Kitchen Summit on the panel entitled, “The Subscription Kitchen: Connected Kitchen and Home Delivery”. Joining her on the panel were: Daniel Rausch – head of Amazon Dash, Amazon’s auto-replenishment…
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Is cocktail making an art form or something you want to let the bots do? If you’re Ryan Close, the cofounder of Bartesian, the answer is both. At last month’s Smart Kitchen Summit, Close talked about how some people initially resented the idea of letting a robotic drink mixer do the work. “Early on we…
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Ashley sits down with Campbell’s Jane Freiman to talk about the what it’s like to run the test kitchen and what excites her about the future of food and cooking.
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The strawberry slicer. The veggetti. The Rollie. We totally feel Alton Brown’s pain about the poor design and general uselessness of some of these gadgets. Good thing that only applies to gadgets, not tech, right? Well, not exactly. Here at The Spoon we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the line between gadget…
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Our man on the street interviewer Carlos Rodela met up with Jeremy Hammer, cofounder of Loki, maker of a smart kitchen meat thermometer.
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