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Despite its uninspired name, the iKettle seems like a good idea. It’s an electronic kettle that you can control over your Wi-Fi network. Of course, you can really only ask a kettle to do one thing: heat some water. But iKettle excels not by what it does but when it does it.
The basic trick of the iKettle is that you can order it to boil from your mobile device. It does this with the help of a Wi-Fi Base unit. But it also has two useful modes called “Wake up” and “Welcome Home.”
Based on the video below, with Wake up mode you can set a time for when the kettle will send you a message asking you if you want it to heat water. This makes it a pretty good alarm clock – if you don’t wake up on time, you might miss your morning drink. I’m assuming that Welcome home mode is just a second preset time, or perhaps the base unit can detect when your mobile device pops back in to your local Wi-Fi network.
You can pre-order the iKettle from Firebox for about $160 (USD). I predict that iKettle 3G will be able to refill itself. Delivering the hot drink to a person won’t come until the iKettle 5S. That and LTE.
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When it comes to having your afternoon tea, or mixing your favorite hot beverage, getting enough hot water to do the job well (especially when there are unexpected guests who drop by unannounced) can be quite tricky. Sure, some of us do have those fancy electric hot pots – which hold a couple of liters of water at best, keeping them warm all the time, but surely that would end up being a fire hazard for those paranoid androids out there, especially when you are not at home for long stretches of time. How about boiling water with a kettle on your stove? Now that’s the way to get things done, but since we live in an instant culture that wants instant results, Tiger Corp. decided to come up with a steam-less electric kettle which will also boast of the industry’s fastest speed (approximately 45 seconds) when it comes to boiling a cup of water (about 140mL). Now, is that fast, or is that fast?
This particular kettle would be the latest model of Tiger’s “Electric Kettle Wakuko”, and it does not emit a single bit of steam to the outside of the kettle. Known as “PCH-G” if model numbers are your cup of tea, this particular kettle will be released at the beginning of September, and thanks to an extremely short boiling time, the overall amount of power consumption is also reduced along the way. How is this made possible?
Well, the boiling time (which can be counter from turning on the switch to the automatic stop of the boiling) could be reduced through the use of Tiger’s “print heater,” which comes with a new structure, and it will lower the amount of time required to detect a boiling state. A similar amount of power required for boiling a cup of water is around 22% smaller, if one were to compare it with the company’s previous product (PCH-A, which was manufactured in 2012), thanks to the reduction of the boiling time and detection time. This sure sounds like something all modern homes should come with.
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Now here is a home improvement idea that is worth looking into – the Binatone Celsius Kettle that actually tells the temperature of water inside (not too sure if you are going to use the kettle to boil anything else other than water, of course) thanks to a color-coded glow. Forget about using just your ears to hear the steam absolutely making a scream of the situation by boiling water, as the Binatone Celsius Kettle will be able to do so visually. This rather elegant looking transparent vessel will rest on a hi-tech base which shows off a spectrum of colors that range from blue to red in order to communicate the current temperature of the liquid inside.
The induction process is used to boil the water, hence doing away the need for hot coils – resulting in a far better looking aesthetic design. Three buttons are located on the side of the circular stand, letting you opt for three different temperatures – 80 degrees, 90 and 100 degrees Celsius, while another button located on the ergonomic handle will ensure the content inside the kettle is kept warm for your use.
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