Earlier, Ryan spotted some DIY speakers made from paper cups and a pair of headphones. Now Arms22 is one-upping designer Dimitry Zagga with speakers made from Starbucks cups. They actually use a power amplifier, meaning they’ll crank your tunes out at a respectable volume. If you want to make your own, go for it, as the instructions are available online. The caveat? They’re in Japanese.
Earlier this year, AT&T was offering up free WiFi at Starbucks to iPhone users. Great deal and all, but AT&T eventually reneged on the deal and everyone cried foul. AT&T has decided to give it another go, offering free WiFi at AT&T hotspots to iPhone users. This includes Starbucks and if you were planning on spoofing Firefox to pretend it’s an iPhone (for some free WiFi), it’s not going to work this time. Each day you’ll have to renew your connection via SMS, making “web piracy” nearly impossible.
Still, good news for the legit AT&T iPhone users out there. Enjoy your newfound Internet.
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’re one of those trendy little shits that camps out at Starbucks to steal their WiFi, you know that the cafes are crowded with others just like you. Notebooks in hand, ready for some free Internet access. A few pranksters from the comedy troupe Improv Everywhere set up house at a Starbucks, fully equipped with full desktop computers and monitors in hand.
To our surprise, the pranksters weren’t thrown out of the coffee lounge. Probably due to the audience which the Improv crew drew, audience equaling customers for Starbucks. Meaning more lattes being sold. — Andrew Dobrow
One cup of coffee sometimes isn’t enough. In this case, it might be too much, but who knows? This really, really big coffee mug would be enough to last some people at least halfway through the day.
Imagine the look on their faces after you walk into Starbucks and say “Fill ‘er up.” Would it be more expensive to do that or fill your gas tank? I guess it depends which you need more. Get your own huge mug for a whopping $338. — Andrew Dobrow
