The Hot/Cold Coffee Mug

How to know when your coffee has gone cold…

The Hot/Cold Coffee Mug from Charles & Marie.

At plain sight it is a standard black mug as they come a dime a dozen and in big white letters it say COLD. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color and is turning white

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Starbucks: Perfect Shot Gone Wrong

It’s about time for another anti-starbucks diatribe. Fanboys and girls - avert your gaze and cover your ears.

If you didn’t know - Starbucks has been experiencing a slowdown in sales. So much so that they are closing 7,100 stores nationwide (for just 3 hours) for retraining.

“We will have all new standards for how we create the drinks,” said spokeswoman

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What is the Most Expensive Starbucks Drink?

What would you do if you were given a voucher redeemable for any Starbucks drink?

This guy concocted the most expensive coffee.

Here it is:

13 shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel.

Total Cost: $13.76 (with tax).

What the blogger didn’t tote up was the amount of caffeine in this drink. …

The On/Off Coffee Mug

How to tell if a mug is filled with steaming coffee: The on/off mug.

This clever mug automatically displays “OFF” when it is empty and ‘ON” when it is filled with coffee or tea. It is covered with a heat sensitive pigment which allows it to change from black to white or vice versa depending on whether it is filled or

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The Complete Guide to Starbucks Caffeine

After years of waiting, Starbucks have finally begun to list caffeine amounts along with their regular nutrition information.

The info is listed on some of the newer leaflets and also buried in the Starbucks site. We have compiled a more complete table, along with info from other independent laboratory tests.

The caffeine database here at Energy …

Coffee Cup: Color Matching Guide

Suck UK has a range of coffee and tea mugs available. Each provides a color matching guide to ensure the proportion of milk in your instant coffee is right on.

Caffeine Cookies

Blogger and Coffee fiend Chris Howard gives us his recipe for creating caffeinated cookies.

Basically he starts off with a standard oatmeal cookie recipe (like this one here).

Then the magic:

Being an experimenter, I don’t write anything down, but here’s the basic formula for super-wicked oatmeal coffee chocolate chip cookies: Take your normal oatmeal cookie

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Which is Best: Power Nap or Caffeine Shot?

Sleep researchers have determined that a 20 minute “power nap” is more helpful than a dose of caffeine.

They are referring to that mid-afternoon “dip in the body clock” - the time when work productivity drops to nothing. The researchers tested participants alertness throughout the day, and found that the 20 minute power nap at 2pm did the trick.

What …