[jandrese]

He also did a DRM bypass, by which I mean he hooked a power supply up to the motor and ran it manually.

It really is the most ridiculous product. Even if it were engineered properly to a reasonable price point the entire product is unnecessary and wasteful. The difference between selling bags of juice vs. bags of mostly juiced pulp that you have to finish yourself is definitely not worth $800 or whatever they were trying to charge. On top of that they added DRM, some goddamn subscription thing, required internet connectivity, and every other annoyance you can get in a modern product.

[deegles]

I mean, if pressed juice actually lived up to its health claims I might consider Juicero more seriously.

[_jtrig]

Eating whole fruit is unbelievably more healthy, cheaper, and simple than the convoluted process this product serves.

The time spent setting up this machine, throwing away the bags, electricity used, resources used, etc VS peeling an orange seems comical and sad.

[jandrese]

To be fair, the founder was much more into stuff like kale juice and beet juice than orange juice. Stuff that isn't particularly nutritious when eaten raw and unprocessed.

[ghostly_s]

You think the nutritional content of kale or beets increases when you juice them? Source?

[jandrese]

Yes, because you're crushing up the cells and releasing the stuff our puny human guts can digest. Raw kale is mostly undigestible by humans unless you're willing to sit and chew on every leaf for a few minutes like a cow.

Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding the sources on this. All of this breathless superfood wankery is really polluting the search results.

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/digestion-kale-11913.html

http://gi-north.com/kale-good-for-you-and-your-digestive-tra...

[logfromblammo]

The effort to eat a bushel of kale dwarfs the effort to drink 1.5 juiced bushels of kale.

[blacksmith_tb]

Perhaps, though steamed or fried it'd probably fit on a single plate... and then you'd get the fiber, too.

[hkmurakami]

over/under on the number of features pushed by a board member?