Scanomat

Scanomat put the app into cappuccino

"The coffee machine is designed to be hidden beneath theworksurface so that all the user sees is a height adjustable stainless steel tap, drain cover and glossy black touchscreen surface on which to make drink selections."

But great design is just half the story. What’s really exciting people is the TopBrewer app that allows users to communicate with a WiFi or Bluetooth-enabled machine and order a freshly ground cup of coffee using an iPhone or iPad. The TopBrewer is packed full of innovative coffee technology, too, including the world’s smallest milk frother and two coffee grinders so that you can have a choice of coffee styles (e.g. caffeinated or non-caffeinated). It can also be specified with fruit juice and chocolate drinks. It can dispense four black filter coffees per minute and takes just 25 seconds to make a perfectly brewed espresso. With the ability to make five cups at a time, it is ideal for filling coffee pots in executive offices and boardrooms."

Source: Business info magazine

iNEED A DRINK!

"Tired of your old coffee maker's lack of smartphone app and general visibility? Slurp this way ..."

Are you still putting things on your worktops? You big idiot! What do you thik this is, 1956? It's all about building in your kitchen tech these days, and the Scanomat TopBrewer is a prime example. Comfortably the maddest coffee maker we've ever seen - it trounces that fingerprint operated one we had last year - The TopBrewer system consists of one or multiple curved spouts arching up from your Corian. As well as dispensing coffee, the spout also houses the worlds's smallest coffee frother. If that's not ostentatious enough, you can also have it pour beverages made to your exact spec via an iPad or iPhone app."

Source: T3 Magazine UK March 2012

Want a Coffee? Reach for your iPhone

Users will be able to download an application next month and will have to press just one button on their phone to order the machine to make a coffee. Once the brew is ordered via an iPad or iPhone, users are told what stage the operation has reached, from grinding right through to when the milk is being heated and frothed. "There are people that will buy it for their home because it's a nice feature and a gadget," said Mr Bahar, who expects to sell between 30 and 40 of the machines this year. Scanomat has invented a pouring system for the machine and developed the software to be powered by an iPad or iPhone. The company said it was also developing the product for Android and BlackBerry operating systems.

Source: http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/retail/want-a-coffee-reach-for-your-iphone 

A Closer Look at the iPhone-Controlled Coffee Brewer

"This beautiful coffeemaker — everything but the elegant swan neck tap is hidden under a counter — was developed by a 230-person, family-owned company in Denmark called Scanomat. Mashable spoke with Sebastian Vibe-Petersen, Scanomat’s export manager, who says the company invented the first fully automatic cappuccino machine in the early 1980s — and that the TopBrewer is Scanomat’s biggest success in its 50 year history.

The design was borne out of the mind of CEO Kim Vibe-Petersen (Sebastian’s father), with the goal of making the complicated simple — without comprising quality. Sebastian says his father “has always been a driving force in development and has taken many crazy ideas into reality,” so creating the world’s most high-tech coffee brewer wasn’t a farfetched idea. Vibe-Petersen says the concept’s mechanics had been brewing in his head for a while, doing what he calls “3D rendering” — until he woke up one morning with the idea for a the smallest milk foamer yet, which would be a necessary component of the compact TopBrewer. In two days, he says, the basic idea was prototyped and tested in Scanomat’s R&D department, where tools for such product development were readily available. It worked, and getting the product into production took two years, much of that consumed by the foamer, which is now patented as the world’s smallest milk frother and is placed at the tip of the faucet. The TopBrewer’s tap is made of 80% recycled stainless steel and can be built into any tabletop — you just need two small holes for the faucet and the drain. So Scanomat’s mastered both the user experience and the user interface. The design’s simplicity is uniquely Scandinavian, but it has global appeal — the first hundreds of TopBrewers will roll off the assembly lines in January to meet the demand. "

Source: http://mashable.com/2011/12/28/scanomat-coffee-brewer-design/

You know you want it: This iPhone controlled coffee maker looks like it came out of Jony Ive's bunker

"This morning is about design. Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive’s bunker at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California holds “the future for the next three years” and we know his design work is influenced by Dieter Rams (he penned the foreword to Rams’ latest book called As Little Design As Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams). That being said, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this coffee machine is an appliance Ive (or Rams, for that matter) created as a fun project in between designing a next-gen A5-powered Mac notebook and a radically different iPhone 5.

All drinks are brewed to barista standards using precision grinders, tamper pressure, pump pressure and water temperature and it works with your iPhone via a dedicated app so you can wake up, run the app, select your pre-programmed drink and literally get out of the bed to the hot cup of coffee waiting for you. And I mean literally because the Top Brewer needs only fifteen seconds to make a cup of coffee. Rough mornings will never be the same!"

Source: http://9to5mac.com/2011/12/03/you-know-you-want-it-this-iphone-controlled-coffee-maker-looks-like-it-came-out-of-jony-ives-bunker/