If you’re blind this won’t help you but don’t worry about it because the Ember app isn’t accessible. When you pick up the mug, there’s a motion sensor inside that triggers the light to come on which allows you to immediately tell whether it’s your mug. This light can be important if you have multiple Ember mugs in your house. In any case, it’s fun to play with the color wheel to choose just that perfect shade of pink for your mug. I have to say it’s biased towards right-handed people if you hold the mug in your left hand the logo and light will be facing away from you. Once that’s done, you’re invited to personalize your mug by changing the color of the little light that glows near the bottom of the mug when the Ember logo is facing you. Well, except for the inevitable firmware update, right? We definitely live in different times when your coffee mug needs a firmware update. Simply select Pair New Device, and then hit the power button on the bottom of the mug and you’re done. No getting on a 2.4GHz WiFi network or anything like that. The first thing to do with the app is to pair your mug, which is a very simple process and worked flawlessly. The app provides a ton of cool capability you probably didn’t think you needed, but maybe you do. Now how is the Ember Mug smart? Of course, it has an app because everything has an app nowadays. You have control of how hot the beverage gets.It gets pleasantly warm but not enough to even heat up cold hands. Strangely the mug doesn’t get hot even when the liquid temperature is set to the max of 145☏.The coaster doesn’t heat up the mug, the mug heats itself.The mug itself has a battery in it, which is charged by the coaster.So how is the Ember Mug really an advancement in beverage heating?
When the mug was on the coaster, the metal plate on the coaster itself would heat up, thereby heating up the bottom of the mug and keeping the liquid inside the cup quite hot. The coaster was a heating element that was activated by a magnet in the bottom of the mug. Now let’s back up for a moment to 1985 when Steve got a coffee mug that seems very similar. When you set the mug down, two gold rings on the bottom of the mug mate up with these pins allowing the coaster to charge the internal batteries on the mug. The Ember Mug comes with a plug-in charging coaster that has two little gold pins sticking up on the surface. This is clearly in the luxury item category which is why I never asked for it for so long, but it really could solve my challenging cold coffee problem. The original Ember Travel mug comes in at $150 which makes the newer Ember Ceramic mug sound like a steal at $80. It comes in either white or black, and looks just like a very traditional coffee mug. Since that time, Ember introduced a smart Ceramic Mug that will keep your beverage warm. Their product was not yet released, and as it was a tall thermal travel mug, it didn’t solve my problem. We interviewed them at CES in 2016 when they introduced a Smart Travel Mug that was designed to heat and cool your drink. The solution to the problem is from a company called Ember from /…. I’m sure you’re completely sympathetic to the terrible challenge I face on that first cup of coffee though, right? Cold coffee is not good coffee. For my second cup of coffee, which is consumed after working out in the morning, I have a thermal mug and I order my Starbucks at an insanely hot 180☏. The problem of slowly sipping coffee is that quite quickly it gets cold and I prefer very hot coffee. Being retired, I have the luxury of very slowly sipping a cup of coffee in bed every morning while I play on the Internet with my iPad.
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