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capsule coffee machine at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of one story. The newest of them: “This coffee maker is a cactus and that's not even the weirdest part”. Most coffee machines are designed to fit in. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every capsule coffee machine story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.

This coffee maker is a cactus and that's not even the weirdest part
Yanko Design

This coffee maker is a cactus and that's not even the weirdest part

Most coffee machines are designed to fit in. They sit quietly on kitchen countertops, dressed in familiar shades of black, silver, or white, with little ambition beyond brewing a decent cup. This one is a cactus. It has a spiky green body, a little pot, and a face that looks vaguely annoyed you haven't watered it yet, which, technically, you have, because the water goes in the top and the coffee comes out of a hidden spout. That's not even the weirdest part. The thing is genuinely sculptural, like someone asked a ceramicist to design a coffee maker and they took the assignment very literally. It makes you wonder why more kitchen appliances don't look like living things.