There’s nothing like getting a creamy, steaming cup of espresso when you are driving your car in the middle of nowhere with your eyelids weighing a ton. If there’s no coffee shop for miles, either you can park your car somewhere safe to take a quick nap and be late for the important appointment, or you can make a hot cup of coffee for yourself with the Handpresso Auto, the latest addition into the range of mobile espresso machines from Handpresso.

The new in-car gadget looks similar to water bottles that are used by cyclists. It weighs in at 1.94 lbs (880g) and is powered by 12V DC from your car’s cigarette lighter. All you have to do is plug it in, add 1.79 ounces of water, place a circular E.S.E. (easy serving espresso) coffee pod in, close the lid, press the button and then wait for two minutes. After three beeps, your espresso will be ready. And the new espresso-maker is capable of creating 16 bars of pressure which will make sure that you get the perfect coffee.

The new product certainly looks like it’s going to be popular, but buyers should make sure that you stick to the rules of the road while you try (successfully) to become a mobile barista. You should pull over safely before you start playing with the Handpresso Auto.

Head here if you are interested in starting a coffee shop in your car and check out the video below to see the Handpresso Auto in action. It comes with a price tag of €149 (around US$200). And about the clip, do people really imagine like that after a cup of coffee?

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We’ve become a highly gadgetized society, but this means that we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to charge up our various portable devices. Seeing a car charger adapter that converts that 12V outlet into a powered USB port is nothing new, but the Brackerton Dual USB Charger comes with a couple of extra tricks.

Naturally, as the name implies, you get a pair of powered USB ports when you plug this into the cigarette jack in your car, but the key difference is the amount of power that the ports can output. The top jack does one amp, while the bottom one offers 2.1 amps. Considering that there are lots of adapters out there that only do 0.5A, this can prove to be quite useful.

Yes, your smartphone can charge ever so slowly along a 0.5A USB port, but your iPad and other tablet devices probably won’t. That’s where this extra juice comes in handy. And yes, there’s an LED light on there to let you know when it’s working. The low-profile design helps to keep it out of the way. Check it out for $24.95.

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