Drinking water in an intelligent cup with LED screen can also be an addiction

Lei Feng network news, intelligent water cup since the birth of a lot of criticism. The industry's criticism of the intelligent water cup project is mainly focused on:

1, drinking water is really just a need, but "intelligence" is not just a need. The concept of intelligence has become the ultimate weapon for entrepreneurs to raise their product capabilities. For them, there is no "intelligence" concept. How can a water cup be sold to hundreds of prices? Based on this point of departure, a bunch of "fancy" intelligent functions come into being, such as long distance reminding friends to drink water, App drinking water reminding, and so on.

2, drinking water data is not worth it. Although most intelligent water cups are emphasizing the precision of intelligent water cup monitoring and the ability to get a daily amount of water, these data are not too significant for users and can not provide normative guidance to their daily drinking habits. The user wants not the data, but the data corresponding to the health advice.

As the entrepreneur representative of the domestic intelligent water cup, Mai Kai team is also rethinking the two major issues. Li Xiaoliang, the founder of the company, told more than 300 hardware entrepreneurs and media reporters at today's WeChat new product conference, "we hope that the smart water cup is smart, first of all, it should be a good cup." What kind of product is a good cup? What are the standards for a good smart cup? At the WeChat conference, Li Xiaoliang unveiled their half a year's thinking results and launched a new brand product - the Seed intelligent travel cup.

Seed intelligent traveling cup

On the front side, there is no big difference between the Seed smart cup and the general hot cup. The surface of the drawing stainless steel, the colourful collocation of the colorful appearance, the metal texture cup cover, and the Cuptime modern styling design, you will not connect the concept of Seed to the intelligent water cup. In the impression, the cup body of the intelligent water cup should have the LED breathing lamp, the styling design which is deliberately eye-catching, and these are not reflected on the cup body of the Seed. An intelligent water cup entrepreneur has previously said, "an intelligent water cup, if it can't attract users in the first time, means it will lose 80% of the users."

Not by design to attract users, then what is Michael's understanding of a "good cup"? Li Xiaoliang said, "a good cup, must be in material, shape, capacity, appearance technology, function and so on are diverse, so the user will feel good, feel good!" Based on this standard, Mai Kai's team has begun to work on the material, appearance, and function of the Seed intelligent walking cup.

After a long period of investigation, Seed selected 304 stainless steel imported from Japan for the cup material. According to the introduction, this material is more stable than the domestic stainless steel and Korean stainless steel, and can guarantee almost no rust in the salt spray test. In addition, as a thermal insulation Cup, the insulation performance of the cup is also an important aspect of the team. Finally, Mai Kai selected the "sandwich plating and nitrogen welding process", which can guarantee the heat conduction of the material in the vacuum interlayer and improve the insulation performance of the cup body.

But in the end, Seed is an intelligent water cup. With the "intelligent" gene of Mai Kai, how to get rid of the long existence of the intelligent water cup "pseudo intelligence" concept, restore the real intelligent function to the user? The Mak team's solution is to design all the intelligent functions on the cup cover, which covers drinking water monitoring, drinking water reminding, water temperature monitoring, high temperature warnings, overdue water reminding, and so on. Users can view the water temperature in the cup by touching the cup lid. The interaction of all information is achieved through the LED lattice screen on the cup cover, away from the previous operation that needs to be viewed through the App.

Seed intelligent traveling cup

It is worth mentioning that how to accurately detect the amount of water in the cup has been a technical difficulty. The Cuptime generation uses the technical principles of pressure sensors. Although the 2 generation of Cuptime uses capacitive pressure sensors at this conference, it is still impossible to fundamentally solve the detection problems of intelligent water cups in a variety of applications, such as a kind of intelligent water cup that needs to be placed smoothly on the table. The surface can be tested, drinking immediately after the reverse water can not be measured, to a certain extent, the accuracy of the data. In response to this problem, Seed uses the Air-Elastic technology to monitor the water by monitoring the air in the cup. Without any contact with the water, the amount of water can be measured, as Li Xiaoliang stressed that "the air knows everything". According to the introduction, Mai Kai has applied for technical patents for Air-Elastic technology.

As a whole, judging the Seed product simply from the "intelligent" point of view does not have too much bonus points, no large data analysis, no App connection, and complex product functions, but this does not interfere with our definition of its intelligent water cup. Seed does not give up the opportunity for innovation to hide the new technology in the functionality required by the user. For some unnecessary needs, Mai Kai has done as much restraint as possible. This design not only reflects the concept of "intelligent return demand", but also controls the price of Seed. Compared with the price of a few hundred yuan, the price of 129 yuan is a good conscience. In addition, the design of the customizable pattern also extends the consumer group of Seed to a certain extent.

However, I still have a question. At this conference, Mai Kai also issued a price of 399 yuan Cuoptime 2 generation, although the performance has a certain upgrade compared to the generation, but the practical aspect is far less than the Seed. Under the same conditions, how many people will choose the 2 generation of Cuptime? And this may be a question that the MAC team needs to think about in the future.

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