Concept of

Coffee Capsule Container

Jan 28, 2016

For my final project, I am going to design a coffee capsule holder.

I consume lot of money for drinking coffee at coffeeshop so I bought a capsule coffee machine in my house.
The reason why I chose "capsule coffee machine was that it is easy to use, good quality of coffee, and it has a variety tastes of coffee.
This is how the coffee capsules look like.

Some capsules have very similar colors.

People use to buy capsule containers like this,

or this,

or this. This is what I have

People put all kinds of capsules at once, however, lot of people ignore that each capsule has different expiration dates and different ways to enjoy.
It is hard to know the information of the capsules. Taste, smell, origin, amount of water, expiration date and how many are left.
(Some people even don't know it has a expiration date)
It's because all the information are on each boxes which people usually throw it away as they open it.

In order to consume my precious capsules properly, I put my capsule container to rubbish bin, no, I mean recycling bin and kept it as it is in boxes.

I don't want to keep it like this anymore.

The coffee capsule container that I want to build will have three functions.

  • It can contain different types of capsules separately
  • It tells you to buy more capsules when it has less than 2. Lt will give you alarm with LED beforehand.
  • It has LCD monitor to give you information of each type.
  • May be George Clooney would like it.

This is a rough sketch.