The famous Italian brand has incorporated Amazon voice controls to a machine you still need to operate the old-fashioned way.
Here is a transcript of a conversation I had from the warmth of my bed this morning:I’m yelling “Hey Alexa” rather than “Hey Lavazza” because Lavazza, the Italian coffee machine maker, has just partnered with Amazon to make a new, voice-controlled coffee machine, the Lavazza A Modo Mio Voicy.
The Lavazza A Modo Mio Voicy does have manual controls on it, which you’ll probably end up using instead of voice for everything but custom coffee drinks. You’re probably asking yourself at this point, when he runs downstairs to just-in-time preload the capsule and place a coffee cup under the spout, why doesn’t he just press the little button on the machine to make the coffee, instead of running back upstairs to yell out to Alexa to press that button for him?
The app lets you fiddle with the settings of the coffee machine, changing how much water is used in each shot of coffee, and how hot that water is, and then save those settings under a name you’ve invented, like “Dad’s extra-weak coffee” or, in this case, “Extra-hot ristretto”. It appears the Voicy measures its water output by time rather than by volume, meaning any coffee drink you design is going to have more or less water in it, depending on the density of the coffee in the capsule. The odds of it giving you the exact measurement you asked for are probably slight.
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