There is nothing quite like having a nice, hot mug of your favorite coffee in the mornings to perk your day up. The thing is, not all mugs are created equal, and depending on the person brewing your coffee as well as the coffee grounds that are in use, you might want to check out the $39.95 Impress Personal Coffee Brewer to start off your mornings right. This is a 14 oz. coffee press which has enough quality to make the right amount of extremely fresh coffee. Not only that, it comes with a bunch of simple parts that make it a snap to rinse and to clean once you are done. Not only that, it boasts of a double-walled out cup that makes it ready for travel, all the while ensuring that the external bit remains cool to the touch always.
This is the ideal tool to have for you who want the to-go type level of convenience without sacrificing on the quality of your drink, as it offers a similar level of quality of French Press coffee. It requires just a matter of minutes for you to enjoy high quality coffee, where the only thing that you need to do would be to place your fresh grounds in the outer cup and pour in hot water. Hang around for three minutes while you play some Candy Crush, push down the inner cup, and voila! The reverse-flow filter will filter out the grounds to produce beautiful, hot coffee. The filter itself will trap the grounds in order to prevent overbrewing and sediment. Once done, just pour it into a ready mug and you’re ready to start off your day right. [ Impress Personal Coffee Brewer get the job done copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
More food is consumed during the holiday season than at any other time. But that’s the thing with food; you can’t stay full forever. And so these gadgets, services and tools should serve your food-friendly loved ones quite handily. We’ll cover a range of products, including an ingredient-delivery service, a magical scale that measures the nutrition of your food, and one very special ice cube.
Everyone from a master chef to a home cook should have a blast with this gift guide, so let’s waste no more time and crack some eggs.
Prep Pad from The Orange Chef ($150)
If you know or love a health nut, the Prep Pad is an easy, thoughtful gift. It’s a Bluetooth-equipped scale that measures the weight of your food as well as its nutritional value, which is then relayed to the user through an app. Simply input the type of food you’re weighing, or scan the barcode, and see a pie chart of the nutrition you’ll be consuming.
With an aluminum frame and a paper composite surface, which can be hygienically wiped down, the Prep Pad can handle any mess in any kitchen, and is accurate with the weight measurement to boot. It’s got a heavy little price tag attached, at $150, and it doesn’t ship until February, but it is worth the wait (ha!) and the cash for a chef obsessed with health.
Budding caffeine addicts are just one gadget away from a full-blown addiction. Meet the Impress single-cup Coffee Brewer from Gamila.
Single-cup coffee makers are becoming more popular, but those machines cost a pretty penny and take up a lot of space in the kitchen. But what if you could combine the single cup coffee maker with French press coffee-making techniques and a thermos to transport the coffee in? That would be pretty amazing, right?
Well, that’s the Impress. It’s kind of a pain to clean, as you need to scoop out the grounds and such, but it manages to keep 14 ounces of coffee warm for hours.
Grocery shopping, to some, is the worst part of cooking. Plated takes the guess work and leg work out of grocery shopping and cooking a nice meal. After a visit to the Plated website, you can shop around between various meals, ranging from things like Garlic-Herb Pork Chops with Roasted Sweet Potato Mash, Korean-Style Short Ribs with Asian Slaw and Sushi Rice, or vegetarian classics like Autumn Root Vegetable Chili with Cornbread Croutons.
Users are given everything they need, including ingredients and directions (but not cookware), to make an excellent meal and a fun experience. For $10/month, you can buy a membership that brings the price of a meal down to $12/plate, with a minimum of four plates per week. Otherwise meals are $15/plate with a minimum of four plates in one week.
Pucs ($19 for 3)
This is a design project that first blew up on Kickstarter and is now available for purchase in a number of different packages.
Anyone who enjoys a nice glass of whiskey on the rocks or simply hates a watered down drink should enjoy these stainless steel ice cubes. They stay at the bottom of the glass and hold temperature pretty well without watering down the drink. They even come with a handsome case you can slip into the freezer.
They’re also able to bring down the temperature of hot beverages more quickly, and then be removed. They’re a nice conversation starter to have around the house, and come at a reasonable price. Worth considering for a boss.
Egg Minder
The Egg Minder is a product out of Quirky and GE that brings a little intelligence to the dairy section of your fridge. Bad eggs are the worst, and the Egg Minder aims to make sure you never experience them again. The smart tray indicates which egg in the tray is the oldest via LED lights, while a wireless connection to your smartphone keeps you in the loop on expiration dates. If you’re running low, you’ll get a push notification. Even better, you can check how many eggs you have and when they go bad from the grocery store.
If you live alone then well, it might be safe to assume that your fridge might not be as well-stocked compared to a family of four. Unfortunately our refrigerators can’t detect that which means that the same amount of electricity is consumed whether it is full or not. Well perhaps looking to solve that problem, industrial design student Ben de la Roche has come up with a concept refrigerator dubbed the Impress. His design was submitted to the 2012 Electrolux Design Lab competition and he will be presenting it to a panel of judges in Milan, Italy, come 25th of October.
So what exactly is the Impress refrigerator? Well like we said earlier, fridges don’t discriminate between a full one and an empty one that that’s what the Impress does. Thanks to its honeycomb design, it lets users slot in bottles, food, drinks and etc., with the fridge only cooling the items that have been slot in. This would apparently make it a pretty efficient fridge and apart from using less electricity, it also has the potential to use less harmful gases (CFCs) to keep items cold! We’re not sure if we’ll ever see the Impress be made a reality, but it certainly sounds like a pretty cool idea, right?
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There is nothing quite like having a nice, hot mug of your favorite coffee in the mornings to perk your day up. The thing is, not all mugs are created equal, and depending on the person brewing your coffee as well as the coffee grounds that are in use, you might want to check out the $39.95 Impress Personal Coffee Brewer to start off your mornings right. This is a 14 oz. coffee press which has enough quality to make the right amount of extremely fresh coffee. Not only that, it comes with a bunch of simple parts that make it a snap to rinse and to clean once you are done. Not only that, it boasts of a double-walled out cup that makes it ready for travel, all the while ensuring that the external bit remains cool to the touch always.
