{"id":1231,"date":"2006-08-31T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2006-09-01T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T13:48:50","slug":"senseomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Senseomatic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> read <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/sen_seo_pads.jpg\" title=\"Senseo pads\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/sen_seo_pads.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Senseo pads\" \/><\/a>a Dutch article that reveals that the company that invented the Senseo pads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/815092\/32\/Douwe_Egberts_verliest_octrooi_op_Senseo-koffiepads.html\">had their (European) patent annulled<\/a> (Dutch link: I have not found any English items yet. The European Patent Office site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-patent-office.org\/index.en.php\">rather mum about this too<\/a>). I&#8217;ll be interested to see <em>why<\/em> exactly the patent was annulled, but apparently, a company in The Netherlands was able to succesfully persuade the EPO.\n<\/p>\n<p>I was (ed: and am still) surprised to see how popular these devices are, particularly knowing that it&#8217;s the <em>pads<\/em> that makes this Senseo &#8216;device&#8217; (which itself has a reasonable price) an expensive proposition.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said: inventive people on the internet managed to create their own Senseo pads and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/content_3875643524\">following page reads<\/a> as a comical episode of &#8216;Who&#8217;s the Boss&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">Possible Procedure Problems include, but are not limited to:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Cutting yourself with the scissors<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Dropping the iron on your feet<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Detergents your in coffee<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Graphite in your coffee<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Making everyone sick<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Starting a fire by ironing the paper too hot or too long<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 All of the above\n<\/p>\n<p>Aside of the risks of &#8216;home-made senseo pads&#8217;, how does an ordinary English-speaking person pronounce the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/content_3863191684\">&#8216;senseotional&#8217;<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a Dutch article that reveals that the company that invented the Senseo pads had their (European) patent annulled (Dutch link: I have not found any English items yet. The European Patent Office site is rather mum about this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}