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My brother-in-law swears by his $300 'smart' coffee mug and I think it's the dumbest thing ever
We were at his place in Denver over the holidays and he spent a solid 20 minutes showing off this mug that connects to an app. He kept saying, 'It holds the perfect temperature for three hours, Tara, you don't get it.' I watched him check his phone to see if his coffee was 145 degrees while it was sitting right in front of him. The whole thing just felt like solving a problem that doesn't exist with a gadget that creates new ones, like a dead battery or a broken Bluetooth chip. I told him my $15 thermos keeps coffee hot all morning without needing an update. He just shook his head and called me a Luddite. Has anyone else had a family member go all-in on a gadget that just seems pointless to you?
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beth1472mo ago
He checked his phone to see the temperature of the coffee he was holding. That level of disconnect from a simple drink is honestly wild to me. The future is looking pretty dumb.
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leewood7d ago
Wait do you think maybe the problem isn't the tech itself but how we've trained ourselves to rely on our phones for everything? Like yeah checking your phone for coffee temp is dumb, but that guy probably checks his phone for the weather, the time, his calendar, and his texts every few minutes anyway. The disconnect is less about the coffee and more about how our brains work now. Ngl I've caught myself pulling out my phone to check a recipe I've cooked a hundred times just because I've gotten so used to having directions at my fingertips. We've basically outsourced our basic senses to a screen.
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Ever try the old "forget" to charge it trick? My cousin had one of those. I just kept moving the charger. After a week of cold coffee, he went back to a normal travel mug. Sometimes they need to see the problem for themselves.
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