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Hey how's it going Dave 2d here so this is a very high-tech coffee cup it's called the Ember ceramic cup and the reason why I have this thing is this wasn't sponsored they didn't send this to me actually purchase this thing so I go into Starbucks just before Christmas and I'm just buying a regular coffee drink there and I see this thing being marketed pretty heavily you can see it on like the front windows they have it at their cache there's like lights and stuff and it's got like an hour GB light to attract your eye and I look at the price tag and it's 80 bucks and I remember thinking there is no way that a coffee cup is worth 80 bucks there's no way but then I look at the box and like okay heats up your drink and it maintains the temperature so I'm like I'll bite so basically I got conned into buying this thing because of Starbucks marketing but I will say that after a couple weeks of using this thing I really enjoy this hence the creation of this video okay so what this thing is is like the simplified version is that this thing takes hot beverages and it maintains or increases the temperature to your desired temperature so it's pretty simple you fill it up with hot liquid and then you set the paired app on your phone to a particular temperature and it'll maintain that temperature so if you're someone who drinks a lot of tea or coffee or hot chocolate or whatever it is that you drink if you like hot beverages this thing might be of interest to you okay so just to demonstrate how this thing works I'm going to pour some hot water into this thing and make a tea and just we'll see how this goes okay so I have hot water in a this was previously boiled it's a little bit cool at this point but what's interesting about this app is that when you pour it in it says empty right now you can kind of see it as you pour it in it'll register its current temperature so right now it's reading at 149 which is already really hot you know what it's so hot that I can't even so the water that was in here is like recently boiled and it's it's above the temperature that this cup can raise it to so this is yeah this is uncomfortably hot you wouldn't want to drink coffee of this temperature you can raise it up to 145 Fahrenheit which in Celsius is 62 point five degrees but to demonstrate this thing properly I feel like I have to lower the temperature of the liquid inside it so that we can actually see it raising it back up so I'm gonna go outside grab some snow up right back okay this is some fresh Canadian snow I'm just gonna drop it in and should reduce the temperature by quite a bit I don't know how much it'll drop it by but hopefully in about not buy too much so you can see the temperature on this thing we'll see how low it goes and I swirl it around a little bit it's completely melted now 58.5 that's quite the reduction in temperature you basically set it at a temperature 59 degrees and it'll just maintain it for however long so there's a battery life to this thing so let me just show how this thing works it's a ceramic mug and there's a battery at the bottom with heater coils and there's a charger for this cup and I normally this charger has an AC adapter plugged into it I don't have it plugged in right now but it basically charges the cup through some contacts and then the cup has a battery that in turn heats up the liquid so the device is pretty simple in terms of how it works and what it does but I'm just going to go through some things that I enjoy better and also talk about some things that I don't like with this product but one of those I really like about this thing is that it is a ceramic coated mug it's not like a ceramic mug there's some kind of insulation material going on that it actually is a very cool cup on the outside but the liquid is super hot which I really like the other thing I really like about this thing is the app it's a really simple app it's available for iOS or for Android we call the Ember app set the temperature and you're good to go so overall the good things about this product are pretty simple but for people that enjoy hot beverages and you want to kind of maintain a particular temperature for an extended period of time with your beverage it's pretty cool it's really nice to like leave your coffee or your tea on a table come back an hour later and it's the exact same temperature it's actually a pretty weird sensation because your mind expects the temperature of your drink to be lower after a long period of time like that but it isn't and it's a nice experience now there's a couple things I don't like about this thing I got to pour this thing out to kind of demonstrate what it is a beer back okay a few things that I don't like about this thing first of all they say that it's not dishwasher friendly now I've actually run this thing through the dishwasher about ten times so far no issues yet but I feel like it's gonna have issues eventually because of how the sink charges so this thing uses these raw metal contacts on the bottom to charge the device so basically the charging pad has these two pogo pins and when you place the mug on to the charging pad it sends current through the pogo pins and then through the metal rings and it charges up the mug but my question is why would they have raw metal contacts on a container designed to hold liquids and here's the thing when you drink like there's gonna be liquids I kind of run down the side and to potentially get on to this area so I don't know I feel like we could have done an induction thing like a ton of products out there use maybe it would've been fast enough to charge I'm not sure but this bugs me a lot I think these charging rings are why it's a hand wash only product but ain't nobody got time for that I don't go no hand wash a coffee mug just because it can charge another thing I don't like about this thing is the battery life so they claim on the box and on the website being at approximately two hours of use with this thing I think that's BS I'm comfortably getting an hour maybe a little bit more but unless you're I don't know how people are getting two hours like you've got to be using some kind of lids to retain the heat or something but you're not gonna get two hours don't expect that and the third thing I don't like about this thing is the volume so they say this thing holds 10 ounces and it does if you fill it up right to the brim but you're not holding 10 ounces comfortably it's holding like 8 maybe even 1/2 ounces it's a little deceptive the base is quite thick because it's got your charging hardware your heating hardware Bluetooth connectivity stuff like there's a lot of equipment at the bottom of this mug so visually this thing holds less liquid then it would seem but overall it's a great mug I think for the right person this is a great gift or if you're into drinking tea coffee frequently this might be a good pickup for you now what I mention one last thing is the price tag so this thing should go for $80 amber sells it for 80 bucks their website has it for 80 bucks but a lot of sites are selling this thing for inflated prices for like 100 150 bucks like Amazon selling this thing originally for 80 bucks right now is 150 so don't purchase it from places that are selling it for ripoff prices 80 bucks is where you want to be okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs have you liked it subs if you loved it and if you'll notice the sets a little bit different right things look familiar but not the same stay tuned it's a bit of assets you guys next time