There are a whole bunch of coffee innovations on Kickstarter, but Dripkit, a smart, simple invention that makes pour over coffee portable and easy, may be a game changer. As creative freelancers, founders Ilana Kruger and Kara Cohen "felt like there wasn't a coffee product on the market designed for their lifestyles," according to ...
PHILADELPHIA, U.S. – A surgical helmet made out of coffee grounds could soon be used in the operating room. This is specifically being tested for use with surgery on the nose and throat. The idea came from a big coffee fan who’s a professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University.
LONDON, UK – Purpose-grown crops used to produce biodiesels are expensive, and consume much-needed water and land that could be used to grow food. Spent coffee grounds have a high calorific value and could be used as an alternative, more environmentally-friendly biofuel feedstock.
MILAN – DYour cup of joe can do more than perk you up in the morning. From exfoliating your face to removing dirt from tiles, used coffee grounds are useful in more ways than one. Here is a quick guide on how to reuse old coffee grounds from Frances Bloomfield of Natural News.
University of Toronto students are using refuse to help refugees. Students from the business and engineering programs have partnered to build Moto, a fuel...
German company Kaffeeform combines dried coffee grounds and biopolymer to create stylish-looking coffee cups and saucers that are not only durable and dishwasher-safe, but...
It started with a dilemma. In 2010, Yoshihito Nakagawa (in the picture), supply chain division manager for Starbucks, was tasked with finding new ways...