if you're anything like me you absolutely need caffeine to get through the day
and when i'm looking to upgrade my fix whether that's tea or coffee first of all i'm looking
to improve well the tea or coffee itself but after that i'm thinking about what tech can up
my drinking experience and funnily enough in here is something that will do exactly that
all right let's unwrap it and i'm going to show you what i've got in this present
all right here is the ember coffee mug now you might be thinking what on earth makes a
smart mug smart why would i need tech inside a cup well the key thing here is right along
the bottom if i peel that off we have a charging coil so this is a mug that has a battery inside
along with heating elements so that it can heat your coffee or tea up not to
basically brew it but to keep it at the exact right temperature you want throughout the day
sounds kind of silly i know and a lot of people are skeptical when they first hear this but
if you're a caffeine lover or for the caffeine lover in your life this is genuinely a lifesaver
especially now so many more of us are working at home where your schedule can be a little bit less
predictable you can have a few surprises and you can have disturbances when all of a sudden your
kid or pet or partner makes an enormous mess in the kitchen and you've got to leave that perfectly
brewed coffee alone for a while to go and tend to it so that's when the amber comes in this thing
available in two sizes there's a 10 ounce and a 14 ounce and it starts from 99 bucks for the
smaller size it'll keep your coffee or tea hot for about an hour and a half that's pretty decent by
itself but in here i've got something that makes that even better this is a charging coaster so
i sip the mug down on the coaster plug it into the power and all of a sudden this thing is keeping it
hot all day so now i can make one cup of coffee in the morning and leave it for the entire day and it
will still be the perfect temperature whenever i want to drink it it gets better than that though
there's an app along with all these little bits that you can access for free the app not only
lets you pick the exact temperature you want to set your drink to but it also lets you pick a few
presets so maybe you want your coffee to sit at one temperature but when you drink tea you want
it a bit cooler or maybe like your black tea hot but you like your green tea a little bit cooler
you can make those decisions for yourself you can set everything and then whenever you brew a drink
you can just head into the app pick which one it is and make sure it will go to the right
temperature through the app you're also going to get notifications to let you know when your drink
is at the perfect temperature and also make sure that you know if the battery runs out to help with
that there's also an led on the mug so you're not completely relying on the app obviously you don't
be checking your phone every time you drink a cup of coffee i did also mention one thing there which
is it lets you know when your drink has reached the perfect temperature because that's when
the other little tricks up this thing's sleeve you're not going to get from a you know regular
old-fashioned analog mug when you brew a tier of coffee it's too hot to drink you need it to cool
down but equally you let it cool for too long and you don't want to drink it anymore it's lukewarm
this will ding you either the light turns on or you get a notification on your phone
tell you when it has reached that optimum drinking temperature that you love so that you don't take
a sip and burn your tongue and you equally don't wait too long and end up with something lukewarm
and really unappetizing that you've got to throw in the microwave to get back to temperature
i'm a massive fan of this mug i've been using the first gen on my desk in my office for years
now i'm pretty obsessed with it this is gen 2 it's just a slightly tweaked design better battery life
that kind of thing there's even a travel mug option though it's a bit more expensive at 180
but it's larger and it basically is a digital thermos so again it's just like this except
in addition to keeping your drinks hot for a while it lets you program the exact temperature
you want to keep them hot at i'm obsessed with the amber i think everyone should have one of these
and the best part of it is there's a whole range of colors this is black there's also white there's
a whole set of metallic kind of chromie options too so you can even have you know one for everyone
in the family which is perfect if you really need to fill a few stockings this time of year