{"id":154901,"date":"2023-01-08T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ex-apple-team-creates-blendercap-a-delightfully-over-engineered-portable-blender"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:24:46","slug":"ex-apple-team-creates-blendercap-a-delightfully-over-engineered-portable-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ex-apple-team-creates-blendercap-a-delightfully-over-engineered-portable-blender","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Apple team creates BlenderCap, a delightfully over-engineered portable blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ex-apple-team-creates-blendercap-a-delightfully-over-engineered-portable-blender2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Packing battery tech nobody uses in consumer devices and a half-horsepower motor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruzlife.com\/\">BlenderCap<\/a> is one of the most ludicrously over-engineered products we\u2019ve seen in a hot minute. At <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/ces\/\">CES in Las Vegas<\/a>, we took a closer look at talked with the team behind the product to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with, er, why do we need a portable blender in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe originally invented this just for personal use for making smoothies after the gym. I was going to CrossFit, and I wanted a protein shake after that. I made myself a shake, and it just got sort of melted and lumpy after you have worked out for an hour or two,\u201d says Dakota Adams, co-founder at the company. \u201cThen the idea came along to put a blender onto these Hydroflask-style bottles. Matthew [Moore] and I became friends and began working on how to pack that technology into a tiny little cap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packing battery tech nobody uses in consumer devices and a half-horsepower motor, BlenderCap is one of the most ludicrously over-engineered products we\u2019ve seen in a hot minute. At CES in Las Vegas, we took a closer look at talked with the team behind the product to find out more. Let\u2019s start with, er, why do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}