Beverages

The Wine Squirrel decanter is designed with an inflatable sealing mechanism that helps to maintain taste and eliminate wasted wine.

The Kuvée smart wine bottle is designed to serve wine by the glass while preserving the rest for up to a month.

​It's nice when baristas draw little things like hearts in the foam on your coffee. There's a chance, however, that those designs may be going the way of cave paintings. That's because Steam CC recently introduced its Ripple Maker, a machine that reproduces photos or other graphics on coffee foam.

Portable coffee makers come in all shapes and sizes, as the Handpresso Auto and the Hey Joe travel mug demonstrate. The Oomph is yet another crack at perfecting this product, and its makers claim it is "the perfect coffee companion, designed for coffee lovers by coffee geeks."

The Teforia infuser uses a proprietary Selective Infusion Process (SIP) technology to not only tailor the brewing to the tea, but also allow the user to control factors like caffeine and antioxidant levels.

Joining the Pico brewer on the crowdfunding circuit, the MiniBrew is another all-in-one countertop brewing system that makes brewing beer nearly as easy (though more time-consuming overall) as brewing coffee.

California-based Ember Technologies has developed a connected coffee mug that is claimed to keep your beverage hotter for longer, with users able to set the temperature through a companion smartphone app or a twist of the mug's base.

Short of having a robot bartender to pour you the perfect cocktail on a whim, you're probably best off mixing it yourself. The MixStik is designed to help, by showing what measures of each ingredient you need.

What happens when, in a moment of pre-caffeine incoordination, you knock over your piping-hot cup of joe? Not only have you wasted your precious brew, but also possibly scalded yourself or rendered your keyboard useless. The Magicup is a spill-proof cup designed to avoid such scenarios.

BodyBrew has redesigned its Hourglass cold brew coffee maker to relaunch it as the Bod. Aimed at coffee aficionados who don’t mind the slow process it involves to get the perfect coffee extract, the revamped unit features a Bean Kanteen, is 15 percent more efficient and has a shorter body.

Five years ago, we heard about a bicycle that doubles as a beer bar. Clever though that may be, sometimes people need a jolt more than a buzz. Well, that's where Wheelys 2 comes in. It's an electric cargo trike that also happens to be a powered mobile coffee shop.

To save innocent palates and Sunday barbecues, the Fraunhofer Institute is developing a new polymer powder that can quickly detect pathogens in beer before they can ruin the brew.