This is the only smart coffee pot I could stand behind…

The Trojan Room Coffee Pot was the researcher’s answer to the sin of finding the coffeepot empty.
The researchers constantly had the issue of going for a caffeine infusion and the frustration of finding the life blood of the research department depleted. But, in 1991 Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky of the University of Cambridge pointed a Philips CCD camera at the pot. They connected it to an Acorn Archimedes computer to solve the issue of the lack of coffee. They wrote the base code to capture the coffee levels with a protocol they aptly named Xcoffee that captured the pot in greyscale.
Originally it ran on the local network when in 1993 Martyn Johnson and Alan Cox showed the coffee pot to the world in November of that year.
For more information goto Trojan Room coffee pot : from Wikipedia
Further: The Coffeemasters themselves….
Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Martyn Johnson
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot
