Out of Season Back in 2017, a buzzy multi-million dollar startup called Juicero — which sold a high tech, WiFi-enabled fruit and veggie juicer that had taken health circles by storm — imploded spectacularly when Bloomberg discovered that you could squeeze its juice packs by hand, without its $700 over-engineered machine, a demise that CNET derided as history’s “greatest example of Silicon Valley stupidity.” We may now have a new pretender to the throne. Enter the Spicerr, a supposedly “AI-powered” “smart” spice dispenser that will automatically decide how much seasoning you should add to your barren foodstuffs. “Spicerr takes the guesswork out of seasoning,” reads its marketing copy, with “curated spice blends” and “precise measurements,” making it the perfect kitchen gizmo for dorks who are too unadventurous to even dabble in the art of adding a pinch of salt or ancho chile. The company also has an extremely obnoxious ad featuring anthropomorphized kitchenware, which are for some reason aware what an AI model is. Suspension of disbelief shattered. Lock and Preload The Spicerr is designed like a minimalist, tech-inflected pepper grinder with a revolver’s cylinder stuck on the bottom. It holds six pre-packaged spice capsules at a time, which you have to buy from the manufacturer, like so many hated inkjet printers. Spicerr sells an “Essential Collection” that comes with black pepper, turmeric, crushed pepper, ginger, cinnamon, and cumin, as well as three other collections for “family cooking,” “baking with kids,” and plain ol’ “BBQ.” Using a small touch screen at the…Check Out This Giant AI-Powered "Spice Dispenser" for Dorks Too Timid to Properly Season Their Food