If a Nintendo Wii and a Krups coffee maker had a baby, it might look like the BeMoved -- an interactive coffee machine that was unveiled this past Saturday during Dutch Design Week.
With a digital touch screen and motion sensors, BeMoved (developed for the Netherlands-based coffee maker manufacturer Douwe Egberts) literally requires you to jump for your coffee, making you bounce up and down to help determine what you want to fill your cup. Engadget has the promotional video if you want to see how that works.
BeMoved has three main modes. There's the aforementioned jumping game called Shoot-Em-Up, in which you select the ingredients by hopping and snatching them virtually from the screen. The Drag-And-Drop creates an onscreen decision tree, where you highlight and move ingredients into place via the touch screen. The last mode is simply a picture of your chosen drink, the basic idea being, Can you remember your last coffee order?
Sadly this video game-coffee maker hybrid is not going to be sold at
Costco any time soon -- it was developed by Douwe Egberts as a
market research tool rather than as a potential product.
But if
it really is just a marketing tool, it's so much better than the
comment cards you fill out at home shows to win a
raffle or gift certificate. I'd willing give them my contact
information, in an exchange for a chance to play digital barista.
[Image via Flickr: house on hill road]
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