Gadgetory

oh hey I didn't see you there have you ever found yourself browsing around online and seeing something you like and think to yourself man I would love to take that apart and see how it works that's what happened to me and this smart mug right here this thing has an internal battery and a heater that brings it up to 145 degrees Fahrenheit that's pretty impressive I can be out here drinking hot chocolate in the middle of nowhere and have a drink hot for hours inside of this electronic thermos this video is actually sponsored by YouTube YouTube is launching a new channel called unboxed where they'll have a bunch of unboxings from different creators all the latest and greatest stuff for the holidays my unboxings are rather unique so I'm glad YouTube reached out with the holidays coming up YouTube's new channel is a great place to find gifts for those hard to shop for people gifts like this smart mug that keeps your drink warm for hours I'll leave a link for you in the description of this video for YouTube's new unbox channel but now let's unbox this mug and see what makes it tick let's get started the ember' wireless temperature controlled mug is here something I never needed or wanted but now I just need to own one a normal thermos can keep drinks warm for quite a long time but this particular ember mug has a built-in heater that can actively heat up liquid on the go pretty cool inside the first box we get another box with an orange ember themed color scheme kind of cute and here's the mug itself incredibly high-quality cold thick plastic had me thinking it was metal at first but the razor blade of truth showed the exterior was in fact plastic as a lot of thermoses are it's not a big deal in this case the lid unscrews with this watertight rubber seal during my time using this mug it never leaked out the top inside the mug is all metal and has a few more instructions tucked down inside now one cool thing about this mug is the way it charges inside the other half of the box we have a wireless charging station for the mug which allows it to keep beverages hot all day long as long as the mug is sitting on the pack the two gold pins match up with the golden circles on the bottom of the mug so it doesn't matter what orientation the mug is when you set it down it'll charge no matter what way it is facing mug itself has a two hour battery life to keep things warm away from the dock it's pretty cool that it charges so easily nothing ever needs to be plugged in the lid has a little circle inside that can be pressed down to let liquid out and pressed again to seal it all up and keep the heat inside the Umbra logo is touch sensitive and a long press of three seconds gets the mug to turn on and then I can adjust the temperature of the mug with the physical dial at the bottom since this is a thermos it can keep cold drinks cold but it doesn't have an active cooling system in place just heat and along with everything else nowadays there's an app that can control this thing from your phone but it's nice to see that the mug has its own dials it also does Celsius if you're into that kind of thing not calculus just Celsius even though those are both probably about the same thing to most Americans now I'm ninety-three percent sure that this mug is never supposed to be taken apart I mean it's a mug but there are electronics in here somewhere and I want to see how it works the expedition four screws yielded eight underneath the bottom rubber grip it's the larger four screws took my t8 bit and the smaller four screws fit my t5 bit the removal these screws allowed the metal plate to lift up and the bottom dial to pull away from the bottom of the cup and unfortunately this is where the salvageable disassembly ends there are no more screws everything is permanently molded shut but we're gonna continue anyway sacrifices must be made I'll start by breaking the seal between the heavy thick plastic outer layer and the metal insides of the in Burma with my razor blade and then it's time to utilize the old rusty saw-blade trick it works every time now I don't blame ember for making their mug difficult to take apart it's literally designed to hold liquid and things that hold liquid need to be seamless and sealed so they definitely get a thumbs-up for extremely solid construction in my opinion the plastic molding rolls all the way around the sides of the cup and seamlessly splices into the bottom of the mug finally I was able to separate the internal guts from the outer shell and get to the interesting stuff this big circular pad on the side is the thing sitting under the Ember logo as part of the system that senses your finger and turns the mug on and off right below that we have the LED panel that gives temperature readouts both in Fahrenheit and calculus and by pulling up the white insulating layer I can get a glimpse of the liquid level indicators running up and down the side connecting us all the way down to the blue circuit board at the bottom I'll disconnect the heater coil ribbon cable just like a little Lego and the battery plug with my plastic pry tool because like you know we don't want to like damage the mug or anything at this point the motherboard is held in place with two black plastic clasps on either side and the whole thing can pull away from the mug base revealing the equally blue battery this little guy as an eleven hundred and twenty milliamp hour battery that gives the mug two hours of heat on the go finally the bottom plastics can come loose revealing what I believe is the temperature sensor for the liquid inside remember that heater coil like is connected earlier well that's hidden under all this black foam wrapped around the base of the amber mug the location makes sense heat rises so having the coils wrapped around the base of the mug is a pretty efficient design overall this is a pretty impressive system if everything else is getting smart these days your cup to the design seems solid from the inside and the outside and that heater coil was especially interesting definitely worth the teardown as always thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed the unboxing of this mug and the teardown if you have any questions leave them in the comments below and don't forget to check out YouTube's new unbox channel thanks a ton for watching and I'll see you around