Cool Hunting
| 01 May 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Caffeine Nation
by Evan Orensten
When a cup of coffee just isn't enough to satisfy your caffeine needs, check out these amped products:
Shock Coffee pumps up your joe with supercharged beans that provide an additional 50% increase in caffeine than standard roasted beans. They claim this increase is achieved both from the beans they use and how they roast them. A single shot espresso using their beans or grounds delivers around 100mg of caffeine. They also make mocha and latte flavored canned coffee, and Shock-a-Lots, chocolate and candy coated coffee beans.
Coffee breath? Try a Penguin Caffeinated Mint. Available in peppermint, cinammon and chocolate, three of these tasty mints provide the punch of one caffeinated beverage. Their peppermint flavored sugar-free energy gum is another option.
Vicious cookies are tasty bite-sized coffee and chocolate cookies that pack an extra punch.
Hi Ball Energy Drinks offer a range of sodas and mixers that offer more palatable versions of popular energy drinks. They can be combined with the alcohol of your choice, or for maximum fun, serve them straight up to your friend's kids.
Blue Bottle Coffee
by Josh Rubin
While in San Francisco last week I stumbled upon the best cappuccino I've had in ages at Blue Bottle Coffee Co—purveyors of beans and beverages made from fair trade, organically grown coffee. Blue Bottle has sort of a make-shift store front on the street side of Earl Gonzalez and Tad Longmaid's Linden, a custom furniture workshop at 315 Linden Street. The beans are roasted, exhaled and blended in small batches at their Oakland headquarters across the bay. Each batch is only 21 lbs. (5 to 6 times smaller than average commercial roasters) which allows them to carefully inspect and control their product. Blue Bottle currently offers 13 different blends and is available online. Though given how small the batches are, I'm not yet sure how easy it is to get some.
adicolor Red
by Josh Rubin
I was in San Francisco last week for a conference and slacked off on my now regular Wednesday adicolor podcast coverage. In case you haven't already found it, Red is here. Directed by Roman Coppola, Red is the most fun of the series so far telling the story of what the world was like before and after the color red came to be. Coppola, recognized both by the Museum of Modern Art and the MTV Music Awards, uses a simple cut-out animation style in this 2 minute piece.
Loco Roco Demo
by Carol T Chung
Some of you may remember, last month when I reported on this year's Loco Roco. The official Japanese website has a demo of the game available for download. I wouldn't normally put a post up on CH saying "you gotta try this," but this simple little demo of the game is so cute and fun and replayable, what the hell... You gotta try this!
Instructions after the jump.
