For years, all I had for making coffee was an ancient percolator acquired at a yard sale. I only got it out on those rare occasions when coffee-drinking relatives came to visit. Eventually it died, and I replaced it with a Gevalia coffee maker. That, too, was long ago, and I suppose it isn't state-of-the-art any more. But it works.
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If it's a drip machine, the technology hasn't really changed since the first Mr. Coffee back in the 1980s or so. The mechanics of the design are ingenious. A single heating element warms the pot and boils water. The boiling water creates a passive pumping effect to drip hot water gradually through the grounds.