Embers

Matthew Miller/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe Ember Tumbler The Tumbler is a 16-ounce drinking container that also has an integrated heating element and associated charging coaster to keep your drink at your desired temperature indefinitely when on the coaster, or up to three hours when taken off. It's important to note that, like the Ember Mug, the tumbler is designed to maintain a constant temperature, but can't boil water on its own. View at Best Buy The tumbler notifies you that your beverage has reached your…

There’s nothing wrong with any movie being marketed and sold on the back of one aspect above all else, and in the case of Chris McKay’s Renfield, it was the promise of seeing the inimitable Nicolas Cage literally sinking his teeth into the role of Dracula. The casting was so inspired that it bordered on genius, and it’s not a surprise to discover upon watching the film that the Academy Award winner knocks it out of the park with a deliciously hammy turn that’s indebted to the classic portrayals of the iconic bloodsucker…

Ion Hazzikostas, the game director for World Of Warcraft, has revealed that Dragonflight’s upcoming patch, Embers Of Neltharion, will offer more “solo exploration” for players, and acknowledged it as an area where Blizzard hasn’t “done as well as we should” in the past. Speaking to NME, Hazzikostas shared that for the game’s next major patch, Embers Of Neltharion, Blizzard has “absolutely” drawn from players’ feedback on the launch of Dragonflight, World Of Warcraft‘s 2022 expansion. Dragonflight, in turn, was an attempt…

Best known for its self-heating cups and mugs that come with spit-take inducing price tags, Ember is expanding its precise temperature control technology to wee ones with its new Ember Baby Bottle System, which promises to save parents from having to guess if milk and formula is at the perfect temperature for an infant’s feeding.Unlike Ember’s cups and mugs, whichfeature an integrated wirelessly charged battery and heating element that can keep beverages warmed to a specific temperature for several hours, Ember’s new…

The link between ancient volcanic eruptions and the most severe extinction event the world has ever seen just got even stronger. A new analysis of mercury isotopes has provided evidence that a quarter of a billion years ago, far-flung places in Earth's Southern Hemisphere were blanketed with debris from volcanic eruptions in Siberia.The so-called Great Dying, also called the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, ensued, where most of life was wiped out under ash-filled skies.While it's clear how things ended – with the…

CES is full of odd and weird things, and Ember is somewhat one of those things. Ember is a product that has been available and on sale for quite some time. But this year, Ember is back at CES with a new mug, the Travel Mug 2+. And the big new feature on this product is that it supports Apple’s Find My app. So, you’ll be able to go into the Find My app, find your AirPods, your Mac, and now…. your coffee mug.Yes, it sounds pretty crazy, but it is also pretty cool. Can’t remember if you left your mug at work or not? Simply…

Apple's Find My app alerts iOS and Mac users when they've left an item behind or helps them locate something they've lost. Later this year, you'll be able to do just that with Ember's heated travel mug. A new version, dubbed the Travel Mug 2+, is on the way this spring. Inside, updated firmware enables the cup to show up inside Apple's app. The Travel Mug 2+ is also equipped with a speaker, so if you lose it you can make it play a sound like you would for lost AirPods. Like other products that work with Find My, the new…

G.R. Macallister’s latest, Arca, returns to the fantasy world of the author’s Five Queendoms. It’s a sequel to Scorpica, which came out earlier this year, and io9 has an exclusive first look today.Here’s a description of the book:Return to the Five Queendoms in the sequel to Scorpica, a sweeping epic fantasy that Rebecca Roanhorse called “ambitious and engaging,” in which a centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born.The Drought of Girls has ended, but…

Ember was already the company that made a travel mug that you could control the temperature of using your iPhone, but now it's also the maker of a dinky little coffee cup as well. The new Ember Cup is small at just 6 ounces, making it perfect for those more diminutive drinks like flat whites and espressos. Ignoring whether you really need to control the temperature of a coffee that you'll drink in a few gulps for a moment, the new cup itself is pretty cool to look at. It comes in two colors — black and copper — with…