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Designer Heo Jeong Im has created a “coffee stick” that is essentially a stir stick, with what looks like a dehydrated coffee solution wrapped around it. The idea is that you stir this coffee stick into hot water and presto, you have a cup of coffee. The coffee sticks would come in various options including…

Back in 1991, when the World Wide Web was little more than a pipe dream, some technicians at The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory were working on ATM networks and related research. Consisting of poor academics, the team of about 15 people only had one coffee machine and as you could imagine the hard working…

Tim Hortons’ message to anti-drive-thru critics: parked cars cause more pollution. Every driver knows that drive-thru windows are convenient, but did you know they also are responsible for all kinds of social and civic good? Drive-thrus are valuable to the elderly, the immobile, parents with small children and, believe it or not, are actually better…

[ad#google_a] As part of a national campaign promoting McDonald’s restaurants, a downtown Vancouver lamppost [6th Avenue at Cambie Street] became part of an optical illusion, appearing to pour coffee into a giant cup on the sidewalk. The post was wrapped in brown vinyl to resemble poured coffee, while an oversized carafe was attached to the…

This brilliantly executed idea was created by design agency Ogilvy Beijing of China for Maxwell House Coffee. When the doors opened, sleepy people in an office building were shocked awake, providing an effect that the designers figured mimics the effects of drinking a cup of coffee. [ad#google_a] The design wont an international design award for…

Most coffeemakers seem to be either cheap pieces of crap, or too expensive for any of us but the most devoted coffee drinkers. It is often difficult to find a modestly priced coffeemaker that still makes a decent cup of coffee. Farberware seems to have filled this hole with their 12-Cup FCM12SS coffee maker. Finished…

Are you looking to purchase green coffee beans? Bookmark this list as we will expand it and update it as we come across new merchants that you can order green coffee beans from. Equator Coffee Roasters Fair Trade Certified, Organic and Environmentally Sustainable, Locally and Freshly Roasted. commitment to freshly roasted coffee is what puts…

It seems researchers in the US have discovered another good reason to go to the local espresso bar: several cups of coffee a day could halt the progression of liver disease, recent studies are showing. Sufferers of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease who drank three or more cups of coffee per day slashed…

Biodegradable coffee cups sound like a great idea, no? So where are they? This latest green technology was developed by Clovernook Center for the Blind (which employs visually impaired people to manufacture various paper products) and International Paper for none other then the U.S. Navy. [ad#google_a] The U.S. Navy was looking for a solution to…

Here is a coffee mug that may not make it to you local Walmart or coffee shop. The “Mugnum” (as you may have guessed) is a clever mix of the word mug and magnum, and is fitting since the handle of the ceramic coffee mug is shaped like that of a .357 Magnum. This coffee…