Senseo
right|thumb|A Senseo coffee machine thumb|Inside of a second generation Senseo coffee machine (click for legend) thumb|Senseo coffee pods Senseo is a registered trademark for a coffee brewing system from Dutch companies Philips and Douwe Egberts. The system is known for the coffee pods (called pads in some countries) it uses to brew the coffee.
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right|thumb|A Senseo coffee machine thumb|Inside of a second generation Senseo coffee machine (click for legend) thumb|Senseo coffee pods Senseo is a registered trademark for a coffee brewing system from Dutch companies Philips and Douwe Egberts. The system is known for the coffee pods (called pads in some countries) it uses to brew the coffee.
==History== The system was first introduced in the Netherlands in February 2001, followed by Belgium and France, Germany/Austria/and Denmark, United Kingdom and United States, and Australia (in chronological order). The Senseo was developed by WeLL Design. According to Philips, by 2005 ten million machines and four billion pads had been sold worldwide, by and over 20 million machines by 2008.