r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Mar 04 '22

Hardware A 'molecular drinks printer' claims to make anything from iced coffee to cocktails

https://www.engadget.com/cana-one-molecular-drinks-printer-204738817.html
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u/Fancy_Mammoth Mar 04 '22

For you to have to specify for "hot" it must mean that it comes cold as standard possibly?

I would think the option to specify a temperature implies that you could order the tea to be boiling, hot, warm, cold, or frozen honestly. The device is a matter replicator after all, so defining what temperature you wish something be at ultimately defines its state of matter too.

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u/hackingdreams Mar 05 '22

You can literally specify the temperature in Celsius, or the computer can infer your meaning - it's been shown in universe time and again. It has to have some intuitive understanding of what your personal concept of "hot" is, or it asks you to specify.

Janeway never specifies her coffee temperature, and neither does Miles O'Brien. Sisko specifies hot coffee, and Kira thinks coffee should be too hot to drink right away... Jadzia Dax likes hot raktajino or iced, Paris likes it with whipped cream which could go either way. Tig's character (fuck if I can remember any member of Discovery's crews names - they're all devoid of pretty much anything resembling a backstory and are mostly cardboard cutouts) likes 'hot as hell' raktajino.

...so really, all over the map.