Last month, Italian coffee company Lavazza revealed its latest espresso machine, the Lavazza Assoluta. It's a good-looking bean-to-cup machine with an interesting selling point: rather than tinkering with brew settings yourself, just scan the barcode on your bag of Lavazza coffee beans into an app, and the Assoluta will automatically adjust its settings to achieve the optimum extraction and flavor.
It's a very interesting idea, which should (in theory at least) take the trial and error out of making consistently good espresso, and make it easy for even total beginners to get perfect results every time.
