PrintMediaCentr: The agency paired fresh coffee with fresh news by converting the coffee cup sleeves of Time Hortons into ‘Headline News’ Cup Sleeves. When customers bought a cup of coffee, the baristas would place the coffee cup sleeve into a special printer. The printer would pull tweets from the Gulf News Twitter account, and print […]
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Stephen Gordon: Ebooks are coming of age – for many reasons. You can keep your library in your pocket. You can annotate and share your thoughts within social networks. Writers can publish more directly to their audience. Once completed, the unit cost of each ebook sold is essentially $0. Those savings can (and sometimes are)
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When a plastic lid is heated from a hot beverage it emits a scent of plastic. Even a hint of plastic odor will adversely affect the coffee. The problem is hot beverages create thermal waves that hit the coffee lid and cause it to release this undesirable smell. Since taste is 80% aroma and because
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View a larger version here. If you like coffee and enjoyed this infograhic, you’ll probably like the book Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in Abyssinia to its role in intrigue in the American colonies to
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Business Insider: Baristas Coffee, a sort of Hooters on caffeine, caters to those who like their coffee hot and their servers hotter — you know, customers who enjoy cheesecake with their java. Let’s not be coy about it, though, because the attention-seeking Seattle franchise certainly isn’t. The company freely admits that it distinguishes itself from
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The Coffeebrewer is a disposable French press. Inside the pouch is a filter with about 4 tablespoons of ground specialty coffee. To brew 3 cups of coffee, all you need is to open it, pour in 2 cups of hot water, and let it brew for five minute. Video below.
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Entrepreneur.com: Shaun Roberts, co-founder and CEO of Kalaheo, Hawaii-based KonaRed, is giving the sports drink category a java jolt. His company turns a byproduct of coffee production into a line of energy drinks, also called KonaRed. Before coffee farmers can ship out the beloved bean at the center of the coffee fruit, they have to
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Big Nose Coffee Company is a UK based online store aimed at the home coffee enthusiast or home coffee newbie. They sell their own brand roasted coffee beans and the basic essential equipment required to grind and brew great coffee at home. I recently had the chance to ask the founder Barry McNamara about the
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Squaw Valley Lake Tahoe, a ski resort on the California side of Lake Tahoe, has opened the world’s first ski-thru Starbucks. The new mountaintop Starbucks at 2,400 metres allows customers to grab a coffee without taking off their skis or snowboard. “We worked closely with the design team at Starbucks to create a one-of-a-kind experience
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Associated Press: In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world’s most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy in flavor and smooth on the palate, the exotic new brew is made from beans eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung. A gut
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