When you go camping, especially when not of the car or glamp variety, you want to pack light. You need to be able to carry in everything you on your back, so multi-use tools are a big plus. And of course, coffee is a necessity. Good coffee. And so is a flashlight. Now bear with me here, but what if your grinder was ALSO your flashlight? That is the conceit behind LUME, the coffee grinder/flashlight combination now on Kickstarter. And itโs so crazy it just might work.
Admittedly, for this idea to not just be a weird mashup for mashupโs sake, both sides of the equationโthe grinder and the lightโhave to work well. But the LUME may just be up to the task. At 22 ounces, the LUME is about the size of a water bottle and is the โlightest auto-grinder on the market.โ At full charge, it can grinder up to 50 cups of coffee (or 20 hours of illumination).
And if the video is any indication, the LUME makes for a pretty consistent grind. Using a patent pending stabilized conical ceramic burr, the LUME claims to have greater particle size consistency that that of other portable/hand grinder because they have an unstabilized burr that โrocks back and forth.โ
As of writing this, the LUME was over halfway to reaching its $14,980 goal with 23 days to go. Retailing at $89, backers can snag their own flashlight grinder for as low as $59. Or for a little extra, you can get a limited edition LUME in matcha green or rose quartz.
So you have to ask yourself, โDo you need an automatic hand grinder that can also be used as a flashlight?โ If youโre reading this, then the answer is yes and we all know it. And if the grind consistency is as good as advertised, then you donโt even have to use the flashlight feature. But why wouldnโt you? ITโS A COFFEE GRINDER THATโS ALSO A FLASHLIGHT!
Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network.
*all media via LUME