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THE SMART LID : A Heat Sensitive Coffee Lid

Place the heat sensitive Smart Lid on your drink and it changes colour to bright red, indicating when your coffee is hot enough to burn.

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THE SMART LID : A Heat Sensitive Coffee Lid

THE SMART LID : A Heat Sensitive Coffee Lid

THE SMART LID : A Heat Sensitive Coffee Lid

THE SMART LID : A Heat Sensitive Coffee Lid

THE SMART LID : A Heat Sensitive Coffee Lid

Place the heat sensitive Smart Lid on your drink and it changes colour to bright red, indicating when your coffee is hot enough to burn.

Place the heat sensitive Smart Lid on your drink and it changes colour to bright red, indicating when your coffee is hot enough to burn.

Place the heat sensitive Smart Lid on your drink and it changes colour to bright red, indicating when your coffee is hot enough to burn.

Place the heat sensitive Smart Lid on your drink and it changes colour to bright red, indicating when your coffee is hot enough to burn.

Anthony Bayss
Anthony Bayss
Anthony Bayss
Anthony Bayss
1 Campaign |
Sydney, Australia
$8,858 USD 130 backers
110% of $8,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Successfully Funded 

The Smart Lid products can now be purchased from www.smartlid.com


Distribution enquiries welcome: anthony@smartlid.com




What Is It About?

The Smart Lid is about Creating Awareness: For You, For Your Children & The Elderly.

 

What Is The Smart Lid?

Smart Lids are heat sensitive color changing disposable beverage lids.

Smart Lids turn bright red with heat. Smart Lids change back to dark colour as your drink cools. A visual indicator that your drink may be hot (or above 118oF). Patented sealing indicator shows lid attached properly.

 

The Smart Lid has been recognized the world-over for its innovative occupational health and safety features including Occupational Health & Safety New Product of the Year Award.

 

The Hot Coffee Problem

We all know coffee can be hot, but accidents and spillages still happen.

How do you know your drink is hot without trying it?

We set out to find a simple solution: THE SMART LID

 

The Smart Lid has been retooled from bottom up to have a clean ergonomic design while maximizing structural integrity, stackability and ease of use to place on a hot beverage while still being able to drink through the lid.

 

The Smart Lid Solution – How It Works

Place the heat sensitive smart lid on your drink and it changes colour to bright red, indicating when your coffee is hot enough to burn. The Smart Lid creates awareness that contents may be hot and decreasing the chance of lid being applied incorrectly.

 

All hot beverage drinkers having different heat tolerances, current lids and cups leave coffee drinkers no option but to test the coffee temperature with their mouth


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What They Are Saying About Us

Psfk – “This helps drinkers avoid unnecessary mouth and hand burns.”

CNET – “Smart Lid silently screams, 'Hot coffee!'”

Ubergizmo – “be more careful whenever we see a red colored lid”

Trend Hunter – “Having come across this piece years earlier would have saved me a lot of burnt tongue incidents.”

 

All materials used in the production of the Smart Lid comply with the following direct food-contact regulations: USA - Food and Drug Administration FDA CFR 21; Europe - Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Resolution AP(89).

 

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Our Story

The Smart Lid journey was born 12 years ago when a father and two sons wanted to reinvent how all daily coffee drinkers enjoyed their hot beverage. 

We owned and operated local cafes in Sydney, Australia, and wished to offer customers a coffee lid that warned of the hot contents. 

This dream ignited the passion for a better designed coffee lid, one that turned bright red as heat was applied, and one which returned to the ‘cold’ colour as your drink cooled.

 

Based in Sydney, Australia, we have honed our specialty in heat sensitive technology for disposable containers over many years of R&D and testing.

Everyone we spoke to in the industry said we were trying to design a product that was technically not possible. After 12 years of research, we have gone through countless prototypes to perfect a set of ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ colours that make all coffee drinkers say ‘WOW’, we have the technical and production backing of Australia’s largest coffee lid manufacturer, we have received direct food-contact compliance, we have Granted patents, and along the way we have won 8 international awards for innovation and design.

 

Consumer Adaptation

Bringing the Smart Lid to USA coffee drinkers and major retailers.

Six months ago our first production run occurred for commercial quantity distribution to cafes in Australia. 

As the weeks went by the biggest response we received came from coffee drinkers who wanted the Smart Lid for their home, their office and for use around elderly family members. 

The Smart Lid has received a lot of international media attention and as a result we are asked everyday, mainly from the USA and from Europe, how daily coffee drinkers can get their hands on the Smart Lid.

 

Full thickness skin burns commence at 120°F / 48°C, however gradual temperature rises equate to dramatic decreases in scald times. Source: American Burn Association.

A successfully funded project will allow us to bring the Smart Lid to the USA and European markets in the form of consumer bundles, Smart Lids and cups in one package. Perfect for use at home, in the office, or for use around elderly family members.


Product Specs

Plastic Type: High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS); Carries a Recycle ‘6’ Symbol; Bisphenol A (BPA) Free; CFC Free; Manufactured in a HACCP and ISO 9001:2000 certified production facility.

 

The Smart Lid is a disposable hot coffee lid that turns bright red with the application of heat (above 118oF / 48oC), and returns to the cold colour as your hot drink cools. 

Material Plastic Composition HIPS, Recycle 6 

Thermochromic plastic additive : 

USA Direct Food-Contact Compliant (Food and Drug Administration FDA CFR 21) 

European Direct Food-Contact Compliant (Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Resolution AP 89) 

Meets the requirements of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) 

Smart Lid is Bisphenol A (BPA) Free. and CFC Free 

Smart Lid is not suitable for microwave use.

 

Funding

To bring the Smart Lid to the USA and Europe requires changes in our product assembly.  Working capital to establish a production line to bring the Smart Lid and associated cups direct to coffee drinkers is $8,000. This includes minimum orders for stock from our manufacturer, packaging, and volume export shipping to the USA for centralized distribution. 

Delivery and shipping is estimated to be about 90 days from the close of a successfully funded project.

 

Risks And Challenges

 

Plastic Type: High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS); Carries a Recycle ‘6’ Symbol; Bisphenol A (BPA) Free; CFC Free; Manufactured in a HACCP and ISO 9001:2000 certified production facility.

The majority of the risks and challenges have been resolved. The Smart Lid has already been undertaken its first mass produced test run, it has been tested and deemed direct food-contact compliant, we have a strong relationship with suppliers and already have manufacture contracts in place.


When To Expect Delivery

Early MARCH: Campaign Closes. Orders are finalized.

APRIL: Raw material production completed and shipped to factory.

Late APRIL: Main production and sorting of lid and cup combinations.

MAY: Products packed and shipped to distribution centers.

JUNE: Products arrive at distribution centres in USA to be sorted, labeled and shipped.

JULY: The Smart Lid arrives to you.

 

In Conclusion

Please pledge an amount you are comfortable with to receive the ultimate in Smart Packaging.


FAQ’s

Questions asked by coffee drinkers:

Q: Why does the Smart Lid glow RED?

A: The Smart Lid promotes safety awareness of hot beverages for coffee/tea drinkers and foodservice staff.

When the contents of the cup are hot, the Smart Lid turns red to warn you to be careful.

 

Q: Will the Smart Lid turn back to the brown cold colour?

A: Yes it does. The lid is a visual indicator for the present temperature of the contained liquids. Therefore as the beverage cools, the colour of the lid will indicate this appropriately, and slowly change back to its cold colour.

 

Q: Does the Smart Lid change colour on all types of hot beverages?

A: The Smart Lid reacts to heat, so the lid will change colour on all type of beverages. However, with coffee types like Cappuccinos and Lattes, the speed of which the lid will turn red is slower than very hot beverages like teas or black coffee.

 

Q: At what temperature does the colour change occur and why?

A: The Smart Lid turns Red at 120°F / 48°C.

The ideal brewing temperature for hot coffee is about 190°F, while full thickness skin burns can commence as low as 120°F. however gradual temperature rises equate to dramatic decreases in scald times.

 

Q: Why is the Smart Lid disposable?

A: The lid comes in contact with your mouth so bacteria has a higher propensity to accumulate on the lid, the most sanitary option is to dispose of it.

A: We wanted a product that could be used by both cafes and the home user.

A: The specialty plastic is extremely expensive, thus a reuseable plastic lid would be much more expensive.

 

Questions asked by café operators:

Q: How does it work?

A: The Smart Lid is infused with a colour changing additive, and when there is a change in temperature the lid responds by glowing red.

 

Q: How can I communicate the benefits of using the Smart Lid to my customers?

A: We strongly recommend promoting the benefits of the Smart Lid by displaying a point-of-sale brochure either affixed to the coffee machine or where the hot beverage is collected by the consumer.

 

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We will donate $2.00 from every sale of this Perk to the Children’s Burn Foundation. You will receive the Large Home Pack: 40 x 12oz Smart Lids AND 40 x 12oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Add US$25 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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EARLY BIRD SPECIAL – 8oz Size

$22 USD
HOME / PARTY PACK – 8oz Size 20 x 8oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 8oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Ideal for your daily coffee, when your entertaining, don’t want to do the dishes or a great way to sample the product. Add US$15 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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EARLY BIRD SPECIAL – 12oz Size

$25 USD
HOME / PARTY PACK – 12oz Size 20 x 12oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 12oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Ideal for your daily coffee, when your entertaining, don’t want to do the dishes or a great way to sample the product. Add US$15 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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$26 USD
20 x 8oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 8oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Ideal for your daily coffee, when your entertaining, don’t want to do the dishes or a great way to sample the product. Add US$15 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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HOME / PARTY PACK – 12oz Size

$29 USD
20 x 12oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 12oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Ideal for your daily coffee, when your entertaining, don’t want to do the dishes or a great way to sample the product. Add US$15 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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LARGE HOME PACK – 12oz Size

$39 USD
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LIMITED EDITION GREEN LID

$45 USD
SAMPLE PACK – 8oz Size 20 x 8oz Smart Lids that turn from Green to White with heat AND 20 x 8oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. ONLY 60 PACKS AVAILABLE Add US$15 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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IF ONE IS NOT ENOUGH 8oz Size

$99 USD
6 x Cartons of: 20 x 8oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 8oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Coffee addict, want to give a pack to a family member, just to be prepared or distribute? 33% off Recommended Retail Price Add US$50 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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IF ONE IS NOT ENOUGH 12oz Size

$115 USD
6 x Cartons of: 20 x 12oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 12oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Coffee addict, want to give a pack to a family member, just to be prepared or distribute? 34% off Recommended Retail Price Add US$50 for shipping outside USA and Australia
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BULK PACKAGE - 8oz Size

$185 USD
Want to use the Smart Lid at your café or foodservice outlet? 1000 x 8oz Smart Lids AND 1000 x 8oz Premium Single Wall White Paper Cups. Only available in USA and Australia
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BULK PACKAGE - 12oz Size

$205 USD
Want to use the Smart Lid at your café or foodservice outlet? 1000 x 12oz Smart Lids AND 1000 x 12oz Premium Single Wall White Paper Cups. Only available in USA and Australia
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DISTRIBUTOR PACKAGE 8oz Size

$749 USD
48 x Cartons of: 20 x 8oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 8oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Become one of the first distributors of the Smart Lid Home / Party Packs in the world. 40% off Recommended Retail Price Only available in USA and Australia
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DISTRIBUTOR PACKAGE 12oz Size

$799 USD
48 x Cartons of: 20 x 12oz Smart Lids AND 20 x 12oz Premium Insulated Double Wall Kraft Paper Cups. Become one of the first distributors of the Smart Lid Home / Party Packs in the world. 43% off Recommended Retail Price Only available in USA and Australia
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