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—If you smile, it brews you coffee. If you frown, it brews you stronger coffee.

The connected coffee machine I saw at Intel's booth here at IFA isn't a consumer product yet, but it very well could be. I love the idea. Using Intel's RealSense camera, facial recognition, a laptop, and a little "Internet of things" building block from a company called DigitalStrom, the setup can cache various people's faces, learn how they like their coffee, and brew it to fit.

Okay, okay, yeah, it needs to be connected to a coffee machine with the appropriate options, but work with me here. I walked up to Intel's laptop, smiled, and got a cup of espresso. But as a DigitalStrom demo person explained to me, what the laptop does with the data is up to the laptop. For instance, it could brew different cups based on different expressions (your glassy stare gets you a red-eye) or brew different cups based on different faces (I get two sugars; my wife gets none.)

Source: http://tekhinnovation.net

Waste of Nigerian space..