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What do you get when you combine work experience at Apple, NASA, MIT and BMW with an expert industrial designer? One helluva cup of coffee apparently. This is no run-of-the-mill coffee brewing system either, unless you have the $11,000 the new Blossom One Limited system costs. Blossom is the invention of three key people. Jeremy Kuempel, president of the company and the inventor of Blossom's core technology. He has an engineering degree from MIT and has worked with Apple (on the iPad2), Tesla Motors and BMW. Matt Walliser is the chief engineer and worked for NASA. Joey Roth, is the lead designer who has designed some of the world's great teapots, the company says.