Smart tabletop coaster also has the ability to detect your coffee cup’s temperature and heat it up for you

Insulated cups are so 20th century. Meet the ikago Heat Coaster Pro, a pretty nifty little coaster that just heats your coffee up for you. With a sensor that can gauge your coffee’s temperature and a heating film right underneath your cup, the ikago Heat Coaster Pro makes sure you get perfectly hot coffee with every sip you take. No more superhot tongue-burning coffee at the beginning and insipid room-temperature coffee at the end. The ikago Heat Coaster Pro keeps your coffee consistently hot throughout the time it takes for you to finish your cup, and an indicator on the coaster’s digital display even tells you if your coffee isn’t at the ideal temperature, so you’re well aware going in!

Designers: Dennis Peltram and Shuwen Chen

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Practically like a wireless charger but for your beverages, the ikago Heat Coaster Pro lets you bring your drink up to the exact sipping temperature, whether it’s coffee, green tea, or even a cup of soothing turmeric milk. Designed for the home or even the office, the ikago Heat Coaster Pro sits perfectly on any tabletop surface with a minimalist design that doesn’t occupy too much space. Just marginally larger than your average coaster, the product works with any cup you may have lying around the house, but it does ship with its own cup too, making things a whole lot easier for people who like the idea of a complete product ecosystem!

A digital display on the ikago Heat Coaster Pro lets you calibrate the temperature you want your beverage at, while an IR sensor on the back actively measures the radiant heat emanating from your cup so it knows exactly how hot the beverage in your cup already is. A heat film underneath the cup then goes to work, heating up your drink if it’s below the temperature you want it at. Just to make sure you don’t end up drinking your coffee/tea too early or too late, an indicator on the ikago Heat Coaster Pro’s display tells you when your drink’s too hot (with a red line), too cool (with a blue line), or just perfect (with a green line). Goldilocks would just love this little contraption!

The ikago Heat Coaster Pro comes with a working range of 105°F to 175°F (40°C-80°C) and fits practically any existing mug you may have, including ones made from ceramic, glass, or even stainless steel. The coaster automatically detects when a cup’s been placed on it and only works during that time. Lift the cup off and the heating film automatically deactivates to prevent any accidents. It remembers the temperature from your previous use-cycle, so you don’t need to program the coaster every single time, and unlike its other competitors, the ikago Heat Coaster Pro can actively measure how hot or cool your drink is so that every sip you have is as good as the last!

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This electric coffee pot comes with a removable inside to resolve your kettle deep-cleaning struggles

Unfortunately, bacteria love coffee too. The high temperatures that fill up coffee pots and the acidity of caffeine are grounds for bacteria to thrive. These invisible microorganisms are already swimming in the remnants of yesterday’s pot before we have our first cup in the morning. While we can’t see them, the thought of them is enough for our acid reflux to start up again. Developed by Juyeon Kim for Designer dot, Florecer is a coffee pot created for a line of hotel appliances that were designed to stay clean and bacteria-free.

Cleaning out the hard-to-reach chambers of traditional coffee pots is a losing game. Translated from Spanish, Florecer means ‘to bloom,’ which underlines the coffee pot’s two-part and easy-to-clean build. Striking a balance between a minimal and modular design, Florecer is a coffee pot separated into two parts, resembling the bloom of a flower at its lid. The larger canister contains Florecer’s interior water chamber, which can be extracted and washed out before and after coffee brews. Dividing the canisters into removable parts gives each of them a fuller body, streamlining the cleaning process and avoiding the prospect of bacterial accumulation. Similar to electric tea kettles, Florecer features an embedded heating coil beneath its outermost canister that heats the interior water chamber. Equipped with a stable grip and LED power status button, Florecer is easy to hold and intuitive by design. Topping the appliance off, a rubber lid keeps the heat transfer contained inside the coffee pot.

With more and more research coming out to prove the likelihood of bacterial growth inside coffee pots, coffee and cleanliness go hand in hand. While we’re on vacation, the thought of bacteria growing in coffee couldn’t feel further from our days spent sunbathing and swimming in the ocean. Juyeon Kim, in collaboration with the design studio Designer dot, created Florecer to maintain the hygienic standards we’ve come to expect from hotels and to keep our eyes on the beach.

Designer: Juyeon Kim x Designer dot

With an extractable interior chamber, Florecer can be cleaned from the inside out.

Possibly part of a larger collection of home products, Florecer takes on a modular and minimal design that could be applied to future hotel appliances.

Meaning ‘to bloom,’ in Spanish, Florecer’s two canisters appear as a single flower blooming from its top.

The rubber lid and interior chamber can both be removed for deep cleaning.

Inspired by the build of water filters and electric tea kettles, Florecer has familiar shape and clean design.

An LED power button indicates when a brew is complete.

An embedded heating coil is stationed beneath Florecer’s outermost chamber to transfer heat to the coffee canister.

When plugged in and turned on, heat fills Florecer up to finish the brew.

A rubber lid tops it all off to keep the heat contained inside the chambers.

Florecer breaks down into three parts: the coffee chamber, exterior canister, and a rubber lid.