This coffee maker is bound to annoy coffee lovers

If you know anything about coffee,… Coffee snobYou’ll know that they always talk about where their beans come from. Favoring single-origin beans is better for traceability and transparency, and when you discover a variety you love, you can keep coming back. But the Japanese company Mihatama has arrived CES 2025 in Las Vegas With Flavor Craft AI, an app-controlled system for measuring beans to suit your own taste. You can just imagine coffee snobs clutching their heads at the thought of blending beans this way.

Basically, you launch the app and set preferences based on your preferred flavour, choosing strength, acidity, bitterness, astringency and richness. Once this is done, the AI ​​will direct the machine to produce a mixture of different grains in sufficient quantities to match the flavor you requested. Said beans will be collected in the bottom tray, where you can then dump them into the grinder of your choice and prepare your brew.

The company has set up a pre-launch page on Indiegogo Which will be opened for pre-sale sometime in the near future. Its representatives said it will cost about $400 when it goes on sale, plus or minus the cost of never being able to invite your snooty friends over to your house again.