Tag: COFFEE

In August, we told you about Starbucks' plan to offer free Web content for anybody connected to its in-store Wi-Fi network. Today, customers can finally browse the Starbucks Digital Network, which features exclusive movie clips, weekly musical picks, digital reading material and more content -- all for free -- to any customer on the coffee chain's connection. Created by Yahoo!, the website seems ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The National Ignition Facility, home to the world's biggest laser, gets the Big Picture treatment. [From: The Big Picture, via: Engadget] Jeremy Messersmith's endearing version of the original 'Star Wars' trilogy captures Cloud City, Rancors and epic battles with lo-fi paper ...

Yuppies in expensive suits and college kids who pretend to study rejoiced last month when Starbucks rolled out free Wi-Fi for its caffeinated legion of customers. But keeping them in the store so they'll buy overpriced coffee and Norah Jones CDs wasn't enough. According to Mashable, Starbucks will launch a Digital Network chock full of exclusive, premium Web content for your ...

Our tireless search for the perfect cup of joe finds us forever tweaking our approach to brewing. Of course, this involves testing new coffee gadgetry and techniques, ranging from obsessively monitoring water temperature to testing multiple grinders for the ideal ground consistency. For fans of brutalism and strong caffeinated beverages, the Espresso Solo concept is the perfect concrete coffee ...

Chris Hallberg, a Marquette University student, has created the world's first smart coffee mug, or 'Smug,' which could make ordering "the usual" at your local coffee shop a breeze. According to Read Write Web, the Smug is embedded with an RFID chip that stores a customer's order history and account information. Without ever opening your mouth or wallet, you can watch as the barista scans the ...

Latte-sipping techies rejoice! Today is the day that Starbucks changes forever. No, a cup of Starbucks brew will still taste like cigarettes. And, yes, you'll still pay exorbitant prices for it. But from now on, at least, you can do so while surfing the Web for free. As promised, the ubiquitous chain will tear down its Wi-Fi pay wall today, effectively paving the way for millions of fair trade ...

BlueBotics develops impressive mobile robots that incorporate the company's unique Autonomous Navigation Technology (ANT). ANT serves as the backbone of BlueBotics' various innovative projects, including the driver-less Paquito industrial forklift, the Shrimp III planetary explorer and the ExoMars rover prototypes. Just like those ingenious machines, the BlueBotics creators need fuel, and -- ...

Finally, free Internet access will be available at Starbucks stores across these United States. According to Tech Crunch, chief executive Howard Schultz announced Monday in New York that, starting July 1st, customers can access AT&T W-Fi networks for free while they sip their coffee. Before this move, Starbucks customers could only use AT&T Wi-Fi for two hours with a registered ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. Our elders may ...

Do you love coffee and e-books? If so, Barnes & Noble has a deal for you. According to PC World, customers who show a B&N barista an open e-book running B&N's app will receive a free tall cup of coffee. It's a limited-time offer, so hurry down to your local book megastore before it ends (though, they haven't announced when that will be). Barnes & Noble hopes this promotion will ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The iPad arrives in just a few days, and Apple is apparently trying to reveal a few unattractive contract specs inconspicuously while the media is occupied with the grand public unveiling. According to the iPad licensing agreement, owners will be eligible to receive one free OS upgrade, but will be forced to pay for any ...

Share Coffee giant Starbucks has joined forces with mobile social networking site Foursquare to offer its customers rewards and gain feedback about its service. According to The New York Times, Foursquare users who frequent enough Starbucks coffee shops will gain a 'Barista' badge on the social-networking site. Thankfully, this doesn't mean you'll have to become an actual coffee slave. Instead, ...

Share We've told you about power plants that pull electricity from garbage. We've reported on a Formula 3 car that draws its power from chocolate. We even knew a guy that knew a guy, back in high school, who rigged his father's riding lawnmower to run on his grandfather's white lightning. Well, thanks to a few brainy Brits, we can now add coffee to the ever-growing list of funny fuels. ...

Share 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 ...

A self-regulating coffee mug may have been a pipe dream for warm beverage drinkers everywhere, but according to the Telegraph, German scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) have created a 'smart' mug that keeps drinks, hot or cold, at the ideal temperature. The interior of the porcelain mug is filled with a waxy substance called phase change material (PCM), which is ...