Received a gift from my employer this morning (sent company-wide, not just to me).
A smart freaking thermal water bottle that uses NFC to tell you three things via the company app on your phone - location of your bottle (not sure how NFC would work for this, but I'm yet to RTFM lol)), amount of liquid currently in it (with up to 1ml precision! lol) and the liquid's current temperature (both Celsius and Fahrenheit wow!, lol. I think you're supposed to charge this damn thing like every six months or something, but, again, I haven't yet read the "manual".
There are nice things about this $149 thermos, for sure. It uses only plastic recycled from our polluted oceans and some large percentage of your purchase prices goes toward the cleanup of oceans. Great initiative, no issues paying $150 for that.
But, technology-wise, is this something we DON'T need or does someone think it is useful? Something I'm currently pondering.