![]() Once you fill it with coffee, you’ll see it immediately spring into action. Your Ember mug will typically be asleep or at rest if it’s empty. Operating and caring for your Ember smart mug I purposefully left a cup of coffee sitting out on my desk for a couple hours one morning and it still had about 1/3rd of its battery life remaining. On that note, the mug has an approximate 2–3 hour battery life for warm liquids. Ember advises against it and I gather it would take a couple hours and all of its battery life if you even tried. Please do note though that the Ember isn’t designed to heat cold drinks to warm. That is a really hot cup of coffee! Thankfully, the mug is going to cool it down for me.Īfter pouring, the mug cools liquid so quickly that I can comfortably drink my coffee within 10 minutes of sitting down with it. The Smart Temperature Control on the mug reacts to my preset and will then cool the drink down using its phase change material to your optimal temperature. My office has machines that push coffee out at the approximate temperature of the sun, and I then have to not only pour my milk in there to cool it down, but wait an additional half hour to an hour (depending on the mug it is in) to comfortably drink it. Smart Temperature Control means that the mug can also cool your coffee. I think it’s important to mention right away that this isn’t necessarily a “heated” coffee mug, not the way that I think about heated mugs in the traditional sense. ![]() ![]() So with that drink in your mug, you’ll activate Ember’s Smart Temperature Control system. You’ll see from the screenshot on the left that I am extremely boring and because I only drink drip coffee in the morning, I’ve only preset the very original “Morning coffee” setting for myself. You can also create pre-sets depending on the different types of coffee you drink if you have preferred temperatures. You can change your LED colour to whatever you want (back to the shoe colour matching right?). The app itself is pretty basic, but has some neat features. Make sure you give it a couple hours to charge out of the box and you might need to apply a firmware update (yes you have to apply a firmware update to…a mug). I’d say it took me about five minutes to pair the mug. For a full list of signals, have a look at Ember’s online legend. The instructions are pretty self explanatory once you locate the type of mug you’re pairing, though I’ve heard a lot of new owners struggle at first with the way the mug “communicates.” Ember communicates through a series of different lighting codes from the base of the mug itself. You have the components of the mug-a saucer shaped charge station, the mug, instructions, and the power source. The Ember smart mug is a pretty straight forward unboxing. I stuck with the classic black colour, though gold was pretty tempting to match some shoes I own. Gold? Rose Gold? Classic Stainless Steel? It’s all here. Recently, Best Buy expanded the colour selection they carry to all sorts of dazzling options. One of the cooler little customization options (for me anyway) is the mug colour selection that’s available. ![]() Ember also makes smart mugs in 14oz sizes as well as a 12oz smart travel mug. ![]() In this review, I’ll be looking at the smaller 10oz size of the Ember smart mug. With a supposed ability to keep coffee hot for hours after you pour it, the Ember stands to be my last line of defense against my own negligence. I’ll just grit my teeth and suffer my fate. Unlike a lot of pickier drinkers, I won’t pour it out and pour another cup. I will get up out of my seat at 9 AM, pour a hot cup, start working and then drink a cold cup of coffee 2 hours later. You see, I have trouble drinking coffee when I’m supposed to. Like many other coffee “stuff” reviewers out there, getting an Ember was triggered by a simple problem. The Ember Temperature Control Smart Mug ² is the latest addition to my collection of coffee paraphernalia. ![]()
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