Turns out Juicero’s ludicrous Wi-Fi juicer is even more unnecessary than it sounds
Juicero’s Wi-Fi connected home juicer was always a shining beacon of Silicon Valley’s most indulgent tendencies. But it turns out the juicer is even more ridiculous than we first thought: it isn’t even necessary to make juice.
Bloomberg discovered that the packs of fruit and vegetables that Juicero is designed to squeeze don’t actually require the juicer to squeeze them — they can be pressed entirely by hand.
That means Juicero’s $400 juicer — which sold for $700 at launch — isn’t just an unnecessary luxury, it’s just flat-out unnecessary.
Juicero has said the machine is designed to deliver the optimal amount of pressure for each fruit and vegetable pack, and the machine is supposed to…