Le Whif Chocolate Inhaler Delivers Breathable Cocoa

by Terrence O'Brien on March 4, 2010 at 08:28 AM

Not all technology is geared towards putting a smaller, more powerful smartphone with amazing Web capabilities in your pants' pocket. Sometimes it's used to combine things like inhalers and chocolate bars into bizarre Franken-foods, that fit in your pants' pocket.

Le Whif is the brainchild of Harvard University professor David Edwards and his lab students, who collectively figured out how break chocolate into tiny airborne particles and then deliver them through a modified medical inhaler. The result, marketed to be "as sweet as chocolate, as light as air," is now on store shelves in Paris, and will soon arrive in New York City and Cambridge.

Francis Cardullo, who owns Cardullo's Gourmet Shoppe in Harvard Square, told NPR that Le Whif delivers "the full flavor of the chocolate," which gives us high hopes for the new coffee-flavored, caffeine packing Whif that will be released on March 11. Best of all the Whif has zero calories, making it the perfect companion for the dieting chocolate-lover, who also happens to be ditching cigarettes. [From: NPR]

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RNjan1Mar 5th 2010 8:24AM

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Yeah...I wonder how good it is for your lungs...LOL. I can see it now...people suing THAT company for lung cancer or whatever. I mean, you must agree that chocolate particles in the lung don't sound too healthy! Tasty, but not healthy!

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DigiMar 5th 2010 10:15AM

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Im so glad we're using all this time money and energy to create somethign that truely assists the human way of life. I just dont know what we'd do without the ability to inhale chocolate in a gaseous form. I mean screw Einstein, F N. Tesla, to hell with the Wright brothers, THIS is a true invention! (for thos edumb enough not to catch the sarcasm HERES YOUR HINT)

You know if we continue such amazing research and development we could easily get that flavored/edible silverware we been hoping for. Cleaning dishes is just so....teadious.

I mean jeez screw that whats it called...Cancer research or whatever oh and AIDS, a search for a cure HA, that cures been LOST since pharmacies learned they make more money from treating than curing. Lets focus on the real matters of life. Like new clothing that just BAAAARELY hides genetals, or maybe a cell phone that can recognize people across a room and call them instantly.

............Im so ............saddened by the will and wants of the human race, even ashamed to be one.

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PJELOFSONMar 5th 2010 12:34PM

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I saw a Le Whif ad in a magazine early last year and was intrigued with it. I went to Europe in June 2009, and made a point of traveling from London to Paris for 2 days. While in Paris, I walked from the Louvre to the Le Laboshop, about 5 blocks away, that sells Le Whif, and bought about 3 dozen of them to bring back to the USA with me. It was a beautiful walk through the neighborhoods past picturesque Parisean cafe's to this shop.

I let family and friends try this, and they were similarly intrigued. Depending on how hard you "hoover" the dispenser, you can get several "whiffs" of Le Whif. It does provide you with a light chocolate taste. They have 3 flavors, Chocolate with Mango, Raspberry, or Mint. The chocolate mint one is really good. I love the new packaging, the old packaging was as individually vacuum packed tubes.

So before you pooh pooh something new, you might want to TRY it. At least these students and researchers came up with something you could enjoy with fewer calories.

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