Do you find that simply don’t have the time in the morning to brew up a cup of coffee before hitting the road for your daily commute? It looks like the Handpresso Auto isn’t the only car-worthy coffee machine anymore. It’s called the GSI Outdoors Commute Java Press and it’s designed to let you brew your morning joe while being stuck in rush hour traffic. And it promises to make some pretty great coffee too.

If you ask coffee aficionados, many of them will tell you that a French press is one of the best ways to go. The GSI Commute Java Press uses brewing hardware that is much like a French press, except it’s been purpose-built to work when you are in the car. You see, the typical French press has a round filter and a plunger, but this version uses an “inner mug” and an “outer mug” to mimic the same process. This creates a tight seal, so you end up with the coffee in your cup rather than spilling onto the floor and into your lap.

The insulating wall keeps your morning brew nice and hot for you too, so it’ll be able to survive that long and grueling commute to the office. The process is easy to do too, since you’re really just putting one mug into the other and letting the system do its thing. When it’s all done, you can open it up to add your cream and sugar as normal. One problem that I do see, though, is that the Commute Java Press doesn’t actually heat any of the water for you. You have to do that beforehand, which could add precious seconds to your morning routine.

Expect to find the Commuter Java Press from GSI Outdoor hit retail next spring for $19.95.

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This is great for the coffee-drinking public, to be sure, but it’s also pretty great for Bell Canada. Remember that Bell is already serving up the free Wi-Fi at Starbucks, McDonald’s, Indigo and Chapters locations. Adding Tim Hortons to the mix with its over 2,000 locations has got to be a pretty fantastic contract. Tim Hortons underwent a “rigorous six-month testing process with multiple service providers,” finding that Bell “delivered a fast and reliable service.”

The high-speed Wi-Fi rollout at Timmy’s has already started and they expect to cover more than 90 percent of Tim Hortons locations by September. That’s just in time for all the college kids going back to school, returning to the routine of constant caffeination and studying.

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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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It comes from the same people that brought us the Le Whif chocolate inhaler, except they’ve swapped out the chocolate for a dose of caffeine. Each aerosol caffeine canister will deliver you about 100mg of caffeine from a shotgun shell looking device.   Equivalent to a medium coffee at Tim Horton’s,  or one third of a grande brewed coffee at Starbucks.

The AeroShot Pure Energy is a cylindrical device that easily fits in your pocket and it contains about six to eight “puffs” before you need to give it a refill. The canister delivers a fine powder with the 100mg of caffeine, along with some vitamin B. It all dissolves in your mouth almost instantly, leaving behind no aroma and giving you virtually zero calories.

This seems like an interesting idea, but I think I still prefer my coffee. If you’re more into puffing your caffeine, you can look to stores in Boston and New York where the AeroShot launches in January.  Perhaps its for people trying to quit coffee?

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Is the office coffee leaving a lot to be desired? Is it all bland and tasteless? If that’s the case, don’t go rushing out to Starbucks just yet. Instead, you might want to consider picking up the Aroma Lid from Mint Urban Technologies.

Most of what you taste is really about what you smell. In this way, the lid itself isn’t really changing the flavor profile of your morning java, but your nose is conveniently placed right at the smelly part of the coffee lid. As a result, each sip that you take will subjectively taste like it’s fuller in coffee flavor and complexity. (The lid might say Mint, but I’m thinking that’s just the name of the company and not indicative of the flavor you get.)

At least that’s the idea. It’s a cheap way out to getting a slightly better coffee experience. That said, you know how else you can have better coffee? Buy better coffee.

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The next time you order a trenta-sized iced mocha frapp, you won’t need to whip out your wallet. You’ll just need to flash your iPhone at the barista.

Starbucks has rolled out its mobile payment system nationwide, hitting up nearly 7,000 company-operated coffee shops around the United States. The idea is that you can load up your Starbucks account with some funds (just like how you would with the physical Starbucks Card), boot up the iPhone app, show the barcode to the scanner, and enjoy your cuppa joe.

Yes, I said barcode. The mobile payment system being implemented by Starbucks uses a special 2D barcode rather than the near-field communications (NFC) technology being shoved into products like the Google Nexus S smartphone. They say that NFC just isn’t popular enough yet. “Once there are more users,” says Starbucks Card category manager of innovation Chuck Davidson, “we will adapt.”

In addition to the Starbucks Card app being offered on iOS for iPhone and iPod touch, there is also an app being launched for BlackBerry as well as one currently in development for Android.

I’m not convinced that this is necessarily any faster than whipping out an actual Starbucks Card, since you have to load up the app and show the barcode for it to work, but it is good to see that they’re innovating by doing more than making bigger cups and unveiling new logos.

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