BeMoved coffee machine will make you jump for your caffeine fix
By Donald Melanson 
posted Oct 24th 2009 1:04AM
posted Oct 24th 2009 1:04AM
A robot barista-filled future may still be a long ways off, but it looks like you may just be answering to a machine of another sort for your coffee sooner than you think -- at least if Douwe Egberts has its way. While it's still a concept, the company's so-called BeMoved coffee machine promises to finally bring the disparate worlds of hot beverages and motion control together at last, and do nothing short of raise "human interaction with a coffee machine to a higher level" in the process. Because, really, you can never truly feel close to a coffee machine until it's taunted you to jump up and down to fill your cup of joe. Of course, you can also do some slightly more practical things like tailor your coffee exactly the way you like using the massive touchscreen, and even check up on the weather and news while you wait. No word on any test markets just yet, but folks can apparently check out the concept first-hand at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week -- or simply head on past the break for a video.
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...in before the fat people can't buy more candy bars because they can't do the ten jumping jacks required to purchase them...
Congratulations! You just got "in before." What are you going to do now?
I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!
Real accomplishment.
jump for your coffee grandpa...
...oh... sorry, you get no coffee grandpa
I pity the machine that comes between me and my coffee..
especially in the morning. i will melt any machine that makes me jump in the morning with its own heating elements.
Nice. Bothering morning coffee people is the best game! hopefully they are already late when they are asked to jump around!
The company expects to profit off their insurance claims.
That made me laugh:)
Am I the only one who finds her love handles disturbing in the screenshot ?
May be. I think they're cute.
i assume it's just her shirt
She thinks it's the muffin bottoms machine. She already has the muffin tops.
Nah, she's too skinny for love handles... Baggy shirt.
i won't jump up and down for stinkin coffee.....cupckaes maybe but not coffee
isn't the whole point of getting the coffee, that it will make you feel like jumping AFTER you drink it?
if im already jumping before i get the coffee, then i dont see the point of drinking coffee...
There are way easier, healthier and more efficient ways to get your energy than coffee brah...just a heads up...
Oh I wouldn't really say that meth is healthier than coffee.
yeah brah
This means we need more energy to JUMP, but you have to do it so you could get the energy (caffeine)?
No point.
It feels as though this company has forgotten the simple fact that most people drink coffee for the energy that they lack.
Motion Control is a great concept...look forward to seeing more applications of the concept
The application of motion control in BeMoved Coffee should be useful...like the idea of been able to check weather, news etc at a machine...could prove to be a good office meeting place...
i can't even get a cup out of the Douwe Egberts machine at my work because it's ALWAYS in need of a MANDATORY filter cleaning on Mondays and NOBODY wants to take the time to take out ALLLL the concentrate tubs and flow the water and replace them, and if they do it, then the machine freeks out about something and says SERVICE REQUIRED and I am left with 200 degree water only, WTH am I going to do with 200 degree water Douwe? What? And NOW, you want to add a Wii to your manifold? I SHOULD HOPE NOT!... go back to the flip knobs and box-bags of concentrate and LEAVE COMPUTERS AT THE DESK>!
Bring some teabags and dip them in the water :)
A classic case of putting the Cart before the Horse. If I could jump up and down I WOULDN'T NEED MY DAMNED COFFEE!
if the machine will make me jump in order for me to have some coffee, my "pleasant" morning mood would probably stick that cup right into it's ass! >:O
Most "coffee" makers in offices just pump hot water through a highly concentrated coffee syrup. So yeah, really disgusting brown liquid.
Hahaha, the coffee fiends in this post are hilarious. Caffeine addiction makes people do crazy things and angry/irritable without it. I can't talk though *crushes Bawls G33k B33r can* MOARRRR!
Man.. jump up and down, check the weather and the NEWS? Can you imagine the queue behind this thing?
Actually, imagine the catfights that would happen when touchy office ladies have to wait for the person in front to finish reading the news on a Monday morning...
imagine just seeing your female coworkers jumping for their coffee, mmmmmmm
tell me where you work...not everyone is lucky
Well, I guarantee I'd get some exercise because of this machine...because I'd be walking to another, or better yet an actual coffee shop. Automatic coffee machines SUCK BALLS! No amount of Nintendo WiiMote BS is gonna change that.
Don't all coffee shops use machines too? They might be more fancy and less completely automatic but they are showing that machines should be able to do a decent job.
Perhaps I should clarify. Coffee vending machines suck. I have never had what I would consider a "good" cup of coffee from a vending machine.
actually other than starbucks, tim hortons here and what i suppose would be dunkin donuts south of the border both use a coffee vending machine that works almost exactly the same way as these machines do, giving choices for sugar, milk, cup size and what not the same way the machine in the video, or rather other coffee vending machines do.
unless you're drinking the coffee from starbucks where the barista actually makes you coffee and shakes it up and what not (which is only really for the frapichinos) the difference is either that the vending machines you're buying from aren't programed for the best values, aren't using the right powders (both of which cases you should call up and tell the people that own the machine) or that you're just psychologically against coffee vending machines.
Mynk, you just tarnished Canada's image for me. Here in the U.S. brewed coffee is the standard. You only get the reconstituted crap if you go to 7-11, or a place known for something other than food (e.g. a gas station). Even then, you're more likely to find really weak brewed coffee than reconstituted instant.
BTW Peet's coffee is the shizam. Once you try Peet's, everything else is crap.
What a coincidence. I like bouncing boobies in the morning too. Well, anytime really...
I was there actually when it was displayed a few days ago.
They asked a volunteer from the croud to try it out.
It seemed more like some sort of flash game made by some random dude from Germany to me.
Couldn't even really see what it was about anyway, the other guy was constantly recalibrating the device.
Walked away after a minute.
Believe me, this is not something you want to do when you want coffee in the morning.
Ah the anti dignity machine. What every vendictive employer will get for his employees. DANCE FOR ME MY PUPPETS!
lower middle class do not need dignity anyway.
Jump up and down, shake the floor and knock down your cup of 200*F coffee all over you.