Javita Instant Coffees

 

 I had the opportunity to sample this coffee in exchange for my opinion. I am not sure why my opinion was so important to the sender, but it was, so I gave it a go.

First of all, the company claims that the herbs (yerba mate and garcinia cambogia) infused with this coffee will make you feel more energetic, with an added boost of some weight loss by speeding up your body's ability to burn fat. Not a bad claim at all.

While that may or may not be true, I found the side effects to be more of a hindrance than the possible benefits. And I did give it a decent try--I used the entire box before coming to my official opinion on this product.

The coffee itself is an instant coffee, not unlike any instant coffee you can find in the grocery store. Since I am not a big fan of instant coffee to begin with, this was only one of my stumbling blocks. To its credit though, it does indeed taste like coffee. However, the heart palpitations, headaches, and stomach ache that came with each mug was not appreciated. After a quick internet search of this product, I discovered others experienced similar side effects.

I suspect the increased energy and weight loss that is touted is from the caffeine in the coffee and nothing more. The high levels of caffeine can also increase your blood pressure, make you feel anxious or give you heartburn. On the upside, the small packets are easy to carry around, the coffee is easy to make and can and should replace your daily coffee intake. And if you are on medication for anything at all, for goodness' sake, see your physician first. The herbs in this coffee can interact severely with pharmaceuticals!

Unfortunately, I can not give this product a tiara. It ended up in my trashcan.


Lady J.

 

WEMO Smart Switch

Being mired in the past makes it difficult to embrace new technologies, but I thought I'd give it a try. I bought several of these smart switches, with the expectation that my home would be on the way to being 'smart'.

 

The premise is a good one. Insert them into an existing plug, plug in your appliance and then voila, you can command your things to do what you want without the usual push of a button or switch.

 

Unfortunately, the execution is not as good as I'd have liked. First, you must download the WEMO app. That part is easy. Then you have to add each device to the app. This can be problematic in that it depends on your wireless network and how capable it is of handing the extra hardware.

 

Once that's done, and you've got all your switches listed on your smartphone's app, you should be good to go, correct? This would be true if you never ever exited out of the app and left it running continuously on your phone. That isn't reality.

 

Each time you want to use the app to control your switches, you have to wait, endless amounts of time, while it connects to your wireless router, and only then can you turn on your lights, switch off your television, etc.  Since the app takes far too long to connect, it's quicker to simply turn on the devices the manual way. Except you can't. The switch doesn't allow you to do so, so you really have to wait and wait for the connection, or unplug the switch and use your normal wall outlet. I am not a patient woman. I expect things to work the way they are supposed to work. This does not.

 

These hit my trashcan.

 

Lady J