It boils water. And it looks red. Yay
Update: the tea filter broke and thus the auto shutoff as well (fix this with a towel on the top of the kettle). There’s a fragile plastic rod that attaches to either a string or a spring that controls the tea filter’s mounting. It broke for me and just flopped downwards instead of shutting the kettle. Managed to get a replacement, but I wouldn’t get this exact model.
What would be really cool, is a kettle which has an alarm if the water is cooking. Some really high pitched noise so that everybody hears it. But the battery would probably die on that pretty soon. Hmm.