Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Cana One ‘Beverage Printer’ Makes Custom Drinks In Seconds”.
It’S so dark. I’M gon na cry we’re here at the lab for a startup called Canna, which makes a machine that lets you create any cold beverage. You want so we’re gon na see how they break down flavors, to how they build them back up and then get them in this can of one machine that lets you pour out whatever you want. We saw this last year when they first announced the product, but I’m here to try out my own concoctions and see what I make.
Let’S try it out. It might be hard to imagine what an energy drink has in common with a cocktail or a Seltzer with an iced coffee. They seem like entirely different beverages, but it turns out there’s just a small fraction of compounds that gives each of those drinks their unique flavor, smell, color and texture. The vast majority of any beverage about 95 is just water, which you already have at home. Taking that idea, the team at Canna has bet the last three years building what it calls a molecular beverage printer, basically, a machine that can create virtually any drink.
You want and customize it. You can also adjust flavors sugar, caffeine and alcohol levels and add nutrients. The idea is to not only simplify and personalize the experience of getting your favorite beverage, but to also cut back on the more than 540 million tons of CO2 generated by the beverage industry each year, according to Canna, the way in which human beings make and distribute Stuff is just fundamentally broken and you can support eight billion people on this planet in the ways we’re doing it. Lots to plastic containers almost 2 trillion containers each of those takes about 400 years to break down in the wild, and it’s all a function of how stuff is manufactured centrally distributed out to the edge and then goes in as crash, and we felt like there’s a Better way to build people all of the stuff that they want without any of the waste, the machine is designed for homes and offices.
You can scroll, through thousands of Beverage options from various companies and creators on the cano1’s built-in touch screen and then pick whatever calls out to you when you click on it, you’re going to be able to see all of the options to personalize that beverage. It’S not just about picking a beverage, but it’s also being able to personalize that on the Fly and you click pour and it pours the beverage simple as that you’d be forgiven for thinking the Canon is just another beverage machine in a fairly saturated Market, but the Tech behind this machine is much more complex than anything on store shelves, it’s taking individual compounds and then recreating stuff on the Fly and that’s very, very different from anything anyone else can do on the planet. Today, foreign inside the machine dispenses the right ingredients and the right amounts to create thousands of drink variations cartridges last about a month and new ones will ship automatically to you for free.
You pay by drink, ranging from about 10 cents to five dollars per beverage. The exact price is up to Brands to decide years of research have gone into breaking down and reconstructing the flavors in a variety of popular drinks using fewer ingredients, so you can have them at the ready. Whenever this graph called a chromatogram represents the similarities between a range of beverages, so what we’re actually looking at is the signatures of three wines. Two are white wines and one is red and, as you can tell, these are very very similar signatures right. The Peaks occur about the same locations and actually the location of the peak tells us that there is a molecule there.
So there’s a molecule here here here, and so they share the same molecules. However, they taste different. Why is that? The concentrations which is actually the area under the Peak is what gives a different one, its different signature, we’re now realizing through the large volume of data that we’ve collected, we can mix and match and create any beverage you want, and you can print it on our Machine whenever you want this is the machine responsible for decoding those beverages into that signature of molecules. Is this the Cherry? What is oh? No, no! I don’t make this one okay, so all of those different scents were from one sample, so what it does is it breaks down all those different scents, so you get banana and fruit, and this really strange fermented Fruit Scent that I really just did not like, but That’S how beverages are there are some flavors you like and some that you don’t, but what’s really fascinating here is it.
It collects all of those different scents just from one sample. Oh no, oh another one’s coming through it smells like dirt where it all comes together. We saw the flavor breakdown and we saw the scent breakdown here.
We have 83 different compounds that all come together into this jar to create that perfect coffee flavor. So when you go to the machine – and you want to have some coffee you’ll get something like this and it’s really cool, because even though it just looks like a clear liquid, it smells exactly like a cup of coffee. We have finally made it to the machine itself.
So what are we looking at here? So this is our prototype Cana, one uh. This device has been in development for about three years. This design, exterior design, is going to be what we intend to ship internally. This device is fully featured. This is the water reservoir that is filled from your TAP.
We have a CO2 canister and then we have a sugar and an ethanol cartridge. So we have a couple beverages to demo for you, so one of the first ones we’re going to print for you is a orange energy drink, cheers that tastes really good. Okay, definitely taste the orange.
It definitely tastes like a little bit of carbonation there. It’S not too sweet. This is actually very good. I like this a lot so now we’re at the Creator studio, and this is where you can customize a drink. You can change the combination of things because you can make whatever you want with whatever combinations you want. I’M gon na play around with that. I mean full disclosure. This probably won’t end up tasting good, but let’s just see how many different combinations and alterations I can do. Let’S do a lemon soft drink, some black cherry, because why not we’ll get a little bit of that mintiness not too much. Let’S do raspberry, because I think that sounds fun a little bit more of that some blueberry as well.
Let’S just get all the berries and just for the hell of it we’re gon na add some basil. You know what some strawberry too. All the berries, like, I said, add some sugar.
Okay, let’s just be crazy. Let’S just add some caffeine. I don’t know why we’re just gon na do it I’m just gon na go ahead and pour that all right, we’ll find out how how bad this is. Let’S try it out, actually not bad.
I actually really like that. It’S sweet. I’M really glad I bumped up the sugar there, strawberry and lemon scent that I’m smelling.
It’S not super bubbly, but it definitely has that carbonated flavor. Honestly, sugar fixes everything. Maybe I did a little too much sugar, but at least it’s not tart. So progress now I’m going to Brand it and I can name it whatever.
I want and tribute to CNET we’re going to call this CNET Cola, because Coca-Cola is overrated. I feel like we made a fun description, an undertone of lemon with hints of strawberry, raspberry blueberry. All the berries you’ll love it don’t forget to hit like And subscribe for more content. Okay, we’re going to publish to Canada yay. We haven’t seen that Cola so this that image and that name is going to be on the device just to live on forever. I’M kind of sorry I probably should have worked a little bit harder on that.
I tried a bunch of non-alcoholic drinks, but this machine can make alcoholic beverages which I can’t have so my Fearless colleague Andy is going to sample a mojito for us tough job. I know all right: let’s give this a try. This is the classic mojito. I really do like Mojitos too. So it’s really nice. It tastes like a Mojito. You can definitely tell there’s alcohol in there.
It doesn’t taste like a virgin or anything like that. It’S tastes like a mojito, yes, you’d, never know that this was made by a computer, delicious verified alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, amazing celebrities and influencers can use Creator Studio to make and brand their own beverages, which fans can then enjoy almost instantly right. Now Canada’s only focused on cold beverages, but the goal is to expand into more drinks, including hot ones in future generations of the machine and the tech is only slated to become more futuristic someday artificial intelligence might help. You choose that perfect drink 20 years from now you’re going to be able to replicate a 20 year old, scotch or you’re going to be able to describe how you feel and say. Look I’m feeling like something like this software AI. Whatever you want to call, it can start to generate things that make sense just for you in a way that you’re never going to be able to find on a store shelf anywhere. Some other things that are on the roadmap for the canoan are things like beer, hot beverages and protein shakes. But for now this is priced at 900 and Will Ship by the end of the year, so you can make whatever cold beverages your heart desires. Thank you. So much for watching and don’t forget to hit like And subscribe for more content, and let us know in the comments what beverage you would make cheers.
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