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Water, the stuff that usually accounts for greater than 90% of any completed brew, is commanding elevated consideration within the espresso sphere.
But one startup on the current CES tech commerce present in Las Vegas is taking an method to espresso water that has so far been unexplored: atmospheric water.
New York-based Kara, which has launched a number of variations of “air-to-water” machines — a.okay.a. air-to-water turbines (AWG) — for house ingesting water, debuted a prototype of the Kara Pod, a espresso machine utilizing atmospheric water.
In accordance with Kara, which has turned to crowdfunding platforms and personal investments to convey precise AWG merchandise to market, the Kara Pod was designed as a dual-purpose countertop ingesting water dispenser and pod-based espresso machine.
The machine borrows the market-tested expertise of the Kara Pure 2, a freestanding water-cooler-like unit that captures atmospheric water and topics it to warmth remedy, UV gentle and replaceable filters for purification.
“The modern system offers customers the liberty to chop the wire on faucet and bottled water by remodeling pure air into 13 cups of unpolluted ingesting water or freshly brewed espresso each 24 hours,” the corporate mentioned in an outline of the product. “Kara Pod additionally makes use of totally compostable environmental espresso pods fabricated from plant-based fibers.”
Kara was a 2025 honoree within the Residence Home equipment class of the CES new product awards. The corporate has not formally introduced a launch date for the machine, however Fascinating Engineering reported that one in all Kara’s founders mentioned will probably be out there in March for $299.
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