[anecdotal Notes] Coffee machines that travel through time and space back to the future

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"back to the Future (Back to the Future)" series of films predict a lot of future technology, although not many come true, but this prediction about the coffee machine through time and space is not far away.

Back to the Future, 1985

Cool techs not listed in 2015

At the end of "back to the Future", Dr. Brown uses 2015 "Future" technology to modify his Di Loren DMC-12 sports car. Not only are the wheels gone, but even the energy problem of the time car that trapped the protagonist Marty in 1955 has been easily solved. Because this time car has upgraded the latest technology of 2015:

Household nuclear fusion energy device-Mr. Fusion (Mr. Fusion).

With Mr. Fusion, the doctor no longer has to risk his life to steal radioactive plutonium from terrorists in Libya. This time, as long as he opens Mr. Fusion and puts in aluminum cans, banana peels and other garbage, he can use inexhaustible energy to travel through time and space at will. But we waited for the whole year of 2015, and we didn't wait for this Mr. Fusion to go public.

Oddly enough, this identical bean grinder was available everywhere in 1985: Coffina Super Coffee Grinder.

Coffee grinder

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A future coffee machine that can be bought in 1985.

This white 223A bean grinder produced by Krups, a German household appliance brand with a history of more than a century, is deeply loved by science fiction film art design because of its futuristic fashion shape. In fact, Bob, the producer of back to the Future. Gale himself hid a Mr. Fusion modified from a Coffina bean grinder, which is still used as a lamp on his desk.

Unfortunately, Krups's bean grinder has been discontinued, and even Krups itself declared bankruptcy in 2001 and was acquired by another European home appliance group, Groupe SEB. By 2015, the only way to buy the bean grinder will be on auction sites such as eBay, where second-hand sellers called for by Mr. Fusion (and asking a lot of money).

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Alien, 1979

It finally went public in 2122.

Better late than never. Sources point out that Mr. Fusion finally went public in 2122, but this time it is the trademark of Weyland-Yutani, an evil trust company.

The spaceship Nostromo in Alien is equipped with the same type of machine. At the beginning of the movie, the camera swims inside the spaceship before all the astronauts wake up. In one of the corners like the kitchen or some laboratory, exactly the same white machine is installed on the wall. However, the whole movie did not see Lieutenant Ellen Ripley or any other crew using the device to generate electricity from garbage, to generate electricity from love, to travel through time and space, or to grind beans, and we were never sure of its true use in 2122.

But at least, the future of this prophecy is right!