Going to Starbucks every morning for your daily caffeine enema can get to be a hassle if you live in a busy area. Yeah, sure, there are Starbucks’ all over the place, but that doesn’t mean one of the cafes isn’t more clogged then another. With the help of JavaBot, coffee shops might have an extra set of hands gears around to help with the heavy lifting.

No, it doesn’t write Java coding (although that would be pretty cool as a night job) but what JavaBot does do is serve a mean cup of coffee or tea as fast, or even faster, as your local Starbucks. And it does it consistently. The JavaBot is built with 13 glass tube-shaped bins for the beans, 6 hold green beans, the other 7 hold roasted beans, each with a scale to let employees know when the tubes need refilling. (more…)

If you want your children to grow up to be big and strong nerds just like you, you’ve got to start teaching them young. And let’s face it, 11 year olds aren’t going to sit there and listen to you read from a C++ book. That’s where C Jump comes in for the win.

Made for children 11 and up, C Jump is a board game (even geekier than other board games we’ve seen) which teaches kids the basics of C, C++, and Java coding. According to the product page, the “game helps to develop understanding of a complete computer program, formed by logical sequences of commands.” Bribe them to play with McDonald’s. If they don’t play, they don’t get their toy. (more…)

If you keep track of Gearfuse, you would have an impression of the Mitsubishi D800iDS double internal screen phone we premiered the spypic and reported. One of the benefits of having 2 screens is actually for browsing webpages. The D800iDS, just like most other 3G phones from NTT DoCoMo, can install this JAVA full HTML Jig browser, and it works exceptionally well. First, you would have a map of the whole webpage on the upper screen, showing you where you are at, and you can zoom in and pan around using the subdisplay below. Then, when you need to type anything, simply call up the keyboard and the on screen T9 buttons will be activated (Photo after the jump), no stupid stylus needed. Not too shabby eh.

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We’ve probably all seen movies where special agents locate eachother on a GPS map and chat. We can actually do that in real life now, if you live in Japan and happen to use NTT DoCoMo’s newer FOMA phones (903i series or beyond). All you have to do is to have the iMapFan JAVA application running at the background, when a friend locates you, a message will be sent to notify you to switch back to the chat screen. The service charges 25USD per month, and you only have to pay when you hold the conversation, it is free for the person invited. — Sam Chan

Press Release [Mapfan Japan]

Japanese game publisher Mobcast has started selling their new BREW cellphone game titled “Camera Action Hero” on AU KDDI’s portal for 100yen ($1). At first glance this looks like just another Mario-esque game about jumping around and shooting monsters. However the company added a little twist to this and decided to make use of the camera on your phone. On top of pressing the usual buttons, users must take pictures of the required color in order to attack specific monsters, there will be a limit on the time and the number of shots you take before you get it right. As simple as this sound, but expect games like eyetoys to come onto cellphones in the near future. — Sam Chan

Press Release [Mobcast]