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posted by CoolHand on Friday September 01 2017, @10:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the juice-explosion dept.

One of Silicon Valley's most infamous recent startups is shutting down:

Juicero, the company that made its name by creating a proprietary juice-squeezing machine, is shutting down. The announcement comes from Juicero's website. In its post, the company writes that it is suspending the sale of both its juice packets and its Juicero Press device. The last juice packet delivery will occur next week. All customers have up to 90 days to request a refund for their purchase of the Juicero Press, regardless of when they bought it. Fortune reports that employees are being given 60 days notice.

Previously: Juicero Squeezed by Press and Internet


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:30AM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:30AM (#562800)

    I've been thinking about what to do with one since it became obvious they'd fail. I haven't figured out a serious realistic use yet.

    They aren't good for juicing, I have a conventional juicer thats very easy and fast to use and clean. Juice being crazy carb numbers, means I only drink as a treat not daily which seems to be the point of the delivery service...

    There's dumb things I could do with frosting and aquarium tubing leading to my 3-d printer, but... eh.

    If it did a zillion tons I could press gears off shafts instead of using the big hydraulic press, but its too wimpy.

    My guess is soon theres going to be some dumb gadget articles in Make magazine using arduinos and squeezing toothpaste in the bathroom.

    It kinda says it all that they couldn't COTS the project because its so weird from a mech-eng perspective.

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  • (Score: 2) by Virindi on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:49AM (1 child)

    by Virindi (3484) on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:49AM (#562809)

    My guess is soon theres going to be some dumb gadget articles in Make magazine using arduinos and squeezing toothpaste in the bathroom.

    Pppppffffffffffffffffffffffffffhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhttt.

    Obviously they will be "art objects" where the cover is removed and an arduino is attached to a couple RGB LEDs around the case. All pointless projects involve LEDs.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @02:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @02:46AM (#562819)

      > squeezing toothpaste in the bathroom.

      Maybe the press can be made to close quickly -- this would allow toothpaste to be launched/squirted out of the tube at high speed! Think potato cannon, but with goo...