As a regular coffee drinker (some may call it a caffeine addiction, but I'm not a fan of that term), Smart Lid seems like an ingenious idea to me. Having come across this piece years earlier would have saved me a lot of burnt tongue incidents.
How Smart Lid works is simple: the lid comes in brown, and when you slip it onto your coffee cup (it fits onto most regular plastic cups), it changes to bright red, meaning the coffee or tea is too hot to drink. When it cools down a bit, the lid turns brown again, letting you know you're good to go. Smart, right? Hence the name.
Smart Lid also comes in a green lid that turns white when your beverage is too hot. What's even cooler is if your lid is on properly, a green ring forms around the lid.
I need to get my hands on this immediately.
Color-Changing Coffee Lids
Smart Lid Tells You When Your Coffee is Ready to Drink
Trend Themes
1. Color-changing Lids - The trend of color-changing lids presents an opportunity for innovative products that provide visual cues for temperature.
2. Temperature-sensitive Packaging - The trend of temperature-sensitive packaging opens up possibilities for industries to create packaging solutions that visually indicate hot or cold contents.
3. Smart Product Labels - The trend of smart product labels offers disruptive innovation opportunities for industries to create labels that change color based on temperature or other factors.
Industry Implications
1. Beverage Packaging - The beverage packaging industry can explore the use of color-changing lids to provide customers with a visual indicator of drink temperature.
2. Food Packaging - The food packaging industry can integrate temperature-sensitive packaging to ensure consumer safety by visually indicating when products are too hot or cold to consume.
3. Consumer Goods - The consumer goods industry can leverage smart product labels that change color to provide important information or notifications to consumers.