keurig
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Coffee Pods For Beer Make No Sense
Often new technology is good, whether it’s a spectacular advancement in medical science or just a new gadget that brings you hours of joy. Sometimes, it’s bad, like the infamous Keurig, a device that seemed to exist simply to break the stranglehold of Big Coffee on… coffee… by suckering people into buying a proprietary, wasteful,…
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This Smart Wine Bottle Makes Getting Drunk Way Too Complicated
According to some people (our esteemed editor-in-chief) the biggest problem with wine is that eventually you have to go buy more wine because you killed the bottle. For others (like myself) the biggest problem is that you don’t always kill the $US30+ bottle of wine in a night. The wine’s flavour changes over the next…
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The ‘Freedom Clip’ Permanently Disables Keurig’s New DRM
When Keurig’s K-Cup patent expired back in 2012, instead of embracing the hundreds of companies producing instant beverages for the popular pod-based coffee brewing machine (who helped boost its popularity), it introduced a form of coffee DRM on its new Keurig 2.0 machines. Not cool, but fortunately the digital locks can be easily circumvented with…
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Rival Coffee Cup Makers Have Already Cracked Keurig’s DRM
When Keurig announced its new Keurig 2.0, it came with more than just the ability to brew larger 900mL K-Carafe cups. It also came with measures to ensure only Keurig-approved cups could be used. Those measures didn’t work.