The high-tech gadget is finding fans in an unlikely place: rural farms, where it can be used for everything from training to creating a connection between the farmers and customers in the developed world.READ»
People drink a lot of coffee, and that creates a lot of waste. But if that waste could be converted to power? Then one addiction (coffee) could help get us off our other (oil).READ»
Thinkers at IDEO are working with scientists to find a way to have E. coli bacteria form objects--like a coffee cup--when exposed to light. It's nature's version of 3D printing.READ»
You'd never give up your morning cup of coffee--unless you knew that it could be even better. Here's how to start tailing off your daily fix and turning it into a super attention and memory shot.READ»
This is mostly the same illy coffee cup you've always known, except for a single alteration made by the artist, Anish Kapoor. (Who's most famous for his Cloud Gate, the silvery bean in Chicago's Millennium Park.) Commissioned by the ...READ»
To me, there’s something about a modern, high-end kitchen that seems unobtainable. It’s not that I think I’ll never be able to afford one (OK, it’s a little bit of that) but rather the complete absence of stuff -- the long ...READ»
Good design solves problems. If some of those problems are the kind that only nitpicky coffee snobs have, so be it. Such is the case with Joulies, a Kickstarter-funded (or should I say super-funded?) project that combines industrial ...READ»
The coffee giant says the liquid-proof interior coating on its cups isn't a roadblock to recycling -- but only one paper mill in the country can handle the process.READ»
Starbucks made headlines around the world last week for telling baristas to slow down. Now they aren't to make more than two drinks at a time, and they're to steam pitchers of milk and grind batches of coffee as needed instead of all at once.READ»
Starbucks has just announced that it's expanding its in-store Wi-fi system, to its maximum limit: From July 1st it'll be free for everyone, with a single click access and no registration process at all. Welcome Starbucks to the ...READ»
In the spirit of full disclosure, I confess that I drank my last cup of coffee 35 years ago. So I shouldn’t care about the re-branding of a legacy Seattle coffee merchant. However, the new logo introduced last week by ...READ»
Coffee to go is a problem for anyone who takes coffee seriously. Drip coffee is bitter and watery, and espresso (and variants thereof) take time to brew. New York's BKoffie coffee bar has the solution.READ»
