A Cure for the Holiday Brews
Raise your (Next) Glass to this 2015 Edison Awards Nominee
There are a lot of alcohol recommendation smartphone apps out there, but I think this one might be the most ambitious one yet: App developers George Taylor and Stephen Pond are currently on a quest to collect data about every type of beer and wine available in the United States in a project they're calling Beer Census 2014. The end goal is Next Glass, a booze recommendation app that promises to use the highest tech, most scientific methods possible to suggest new drinks for you to try that you're guaranteed to like. More
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Keurig 2.0 Takes the Coffee Cake
Edison Award Winner brews up another great idea
We've really come to love single-serve coffeemakers - they allow us to swiftly make just one cup with no muss, no fuss, or that "is the coffee ready yet?!" waiting period. But on Saturday mornings when we want to kick back with a "bottomless" mug and the paper or when we have company, we still have to drag out the old multi-cup coffeemaker.
Enter the new Keurig 2.0: It's designed to do double-duty as a single- and multi-cup brewer. Along with being a cousin of the best-of-our-test single-serve machine (theKeurig Vue), the models in the new line have a carafe that uses 4-cup K-cups to brew up to 4 to 5 cups of coffee at a time. More
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Pinot To Go
Guliana Rancic launches innovative line of wines with XO, G
New to stores, XO, G wine offers tear apart individual self-serving package of a French Pinot Noir, Italian Pinot Grigio and a Rosé from the South of France. A perfect way to avoid the hassle of glassware and a corkscrew, XO, G's elegant stemless "glasses" come pre-filled with quality French and Italian wine, zipped into a convenient shrink-sleeve. Users simply zip loose the sleeve, snap apart the glasses, and peel back a foil seal to sip.
While a regular bottle of wine has a time and place, there are many situations where an entire bottle of wine served in glass just doesn't work. XO, G single-serving packaging allows for consumers to practice portion control by limiting themselves to just one glass of wine without spoiling the rest of the bottle. More
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Edison Award winning Jarden Home Brands delivers a simple solution to home canning 
Home canning has been around for a long time. And while there's nothing necessarily wrong with grandma's approach, traditional water-bath canning is a fairly arduous process. From preheating the jars to removing the preserved food from the boiling water, you have to actively monitor, well, everything. If you don't, your food runs a greater risk of carrying harmful bacteria.
Enter Jarden Home Brands' $299.99 Ball Freshtech Automatic Home Canning System. Yes, you still have to prepare the recipe for canning and clean the jars, lids, and bands beforehand, but this appliance will preheat your jars and preserve your food for you. Not only will that save you time, it also removes some of the responsibility, thanks to an array of sensors. More
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Coke's App-etizing New Innovation
Connect with Edison Award winner Coca-Cola on the go
By now, you may be familiar with The Coca-Cola Company's next-generation soda machine,Coca-Cola Freestyle. If you haven't seen one yet, I think they're worth seeking out just for the gee-whiz factor. One of the especially enjoyable things to do with a Coke Freestyle machine is coming up with your own flavor combinations. It's sort of like back in junior high school when you mixed all the soda flavors together, only better tasting. Now, to add to the soda mixing fun, there's an app for that. More
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May all Your Spirits be Bright
Edison Award winner Coravin keeps wine fresh
The Coravin wine system is to wine what the black hat is to the white rabbit: a magician's portal. Without removing the cork (which would aerate the wine and disrupt the rest of the bottle), it takes wine inside the bottle and allows you to pour it outside the bottle. How it works is relevant and interesting on the level that all small engineering marvels are interesting, but the big reveal is the fact that it actually does work. More
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IMPORTANT: Eat the Fine Print
Natural Machines introduces a 3D printer for food
As further proof that you can now 3D-print anything, a company called Natural Machines has introduced a 3D printer for food.
The "Foodini," as it's called, isn't too different from a regular 3D printer, but instead of printing with plastics, it deploys edible ingredients squeezed out of stainless steel capsules: "It's the same technology," says Lynette Kucsma, co-founder of Natural Machines, "but with plastics there's just one melting point, whereas with food it's different temperatures, consistencies and textures. Also, gravity works a little bit against us, as food doesn't hold the shape as well as plastic." More
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Cutting Edge
Joseph Joseph delivers innovative line of kitchen tools
You won't have to put up with a dull knife because you don't want to dig out the knife sharpener if you have the Joseph Joseph Slice and Sharpen Cutting Board. The plastic cutting board has a knife sharpener built in to the handle. When you need to sharpen your knife, just stand the board on it's non-slip edge and run the knife through the sharpener. More
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2015 Edison Awards Nominations Open
September 1, 2014 thru December 5, 2014
Click here for a Nomination Form
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Founder of Edison Awards Partner APQC Releases Biography
Freedom to Dream Courage to Act
by John DeMers and Paige Dawson
Dr. C. Jackson "Jack" Grayson, founder and executive chairman of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), has served as head of the US Price Commission (1971), dean of two business schools and founder of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Going far beyond the boundaries of his business resume, however, Grayson formed his point-of-view through experiences as a farmer, a newspaper reporter and an FBI agent. He also served the US Navy as a gunnery officer in the South Pacific during WWII, lived in Paris as a writer and lost his heart to a geisha. Filled with excitement, high-level political and business interactions and no small dose of glamour, Grayson's ninety-plus years are most notable for their reflection of his philosophy of freedom
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Edison Awards Steering Committee Spotlight
Gary Fischman
Owner and Principal, Future Strategy Solutions LLC
Dr. Gary Fischman is a materials scientist whose career has been on the nexus of academia, government and industry. He is the owner and principal of Future Strategy Solutions, and an active part-owner of Covalent Coating Technologies. Prior to his current activities, Gary spent five years at the National Research Council, where he was the Director of three boards: The National Materials Advisory Board, the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, and the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.
Earlier, Gary was the Director of Biomaterials and Technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding three joint academic appointments (Restorative Dentistry, Orthopaedic Survey and Bioengineering). Previous to his activities at UIC, Gary was at the US Food and Drug Administration.
To learn more about Gary Fischman, or any of the other Edison Awards Steering Committee members, click Here
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