100$ for a Cup?

Summary of "Why have consumers spent $1 million on Vessyl, an absurd calorie-counting cup?" by "Tech Hive's" Jon Phillips

According to Phillips the Vessyl a new calorie-counting cup is "the most ridiculous, unnecessary gadget I've ever seen demoed in all my years as a tech journalist". The new liquid identifying chalice packs a short list of features and a hefty price tag. The premier features of this magnificent mug are it can instantly identify the type of drink when it is poured in, it will tell you all the nutrition facts, and the big one it can track all the calories you have consumed that day. That may sound impressive until you consider that is near the same high tech features that an aluminum can provides. Unless you have some form of alzheimers you should be able to identify what you just poured into a cup. So you may think there is still nutrition facts, well the only liquids you would need to know the nutrition facts of, is something that has sugar, calories, chemicals, ect. If you stop and think all products unless you make them come out of some sort of package or container. To solve your nutrition facts problem just check the container. You can clearly see this product is not worth purchasing. (Phillips, 2014)

Personally my opinion is very similar to Phillip's. Even for the health nuts out there I still can't find any practical use worth 100$. Unless you would like to measure the calorie content of your tap water you should be able to find the nutrition facts on any legal product. There is the biggest feature where it tracks your calorie intake for the whole day. I see that as frankly unrealistic, you would have to have it all the time, and unless you are bedridden or an agoraphobe you should drink sometimes outside your house. You would also have to clean it, but it isn't dishwasher safe. After every drink you would have to go clean the cup and after a while it would get just plain filthy. I think you would be better off getting a thermos and writing on it with washable marker to remember your drink you just put in your cup. There should be some clue about what it is by sight, smell, maybe even taste the drink you just poured. You may be thinking well if it can detect chemicals you could atleast bring it to parties to detect spiked drinks, nope. It is incapable of doing the only task I could find useful for this product to be able to do.

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Phillips, Jon (2014, July 24th) Why the word has spent 1 million dollars on Vessyl. (n.d.) TechHive Website. Retrieved from: http://www.techhive.com/article/2457644/why-have-consumers-spent-1-million-on-vessyl-an-absurd-calorie-counting-cup.html