Teforia presents automated tea brewing machine
With the hope of one day challenging Keurig, a startup company is taking pre-orders for a next generation luxury tea brewing device capable of adapting brewing conditions to a specific tea variety. Teforia uses a crowdsourced online database of brewing settings to automatically adjust brewing time, water temperature and oxygen addition for optimal flavor extraction. The device is able to brew Teforias prepackaged tea capsules or loose teas inserted by the owner. Designed by Allen Han, who previously worked at Microsoft on Xbox 360 and Surface, the brewer can be controlled by a smartphone app that allows to manipulate settings and order capsules. The retail price is a whopping $1,300 and there is currently a limited pre-order availability for $650. Date of release is Spring 2016.