Gallery: This Mug Keeps Your Coffee a Constant Temperature for Hours

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    A new company called Ember wants to apply thermal sciences to making smarter kitchenware. This mug is Ember's first product.
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    The mug has a passive cooling system and an active heating system that, paired with a microprocessor and sensors, can cool your coffee quickly and then keep it at that temperature for hours.
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    The battery lasts two hours, but the phase-change cooling component can maintain heat for two hours after that. Or, there's a charger-coaster.
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    Ammunition Group (who designed the Beats by Dre headphones) created the black, bullet-smooth vessel for Ember, with no buttons or dials in sight.
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    All this activity can be programmed through a simple app, also designed by the Ammunition team, which shows the chosen temperature, a graphic of a thermometer, and little else.
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    The mug will ship in April 2016 and costs $129.
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