can we use nano-technology to create a fabric that changes color when a substance of different color is dropped on it? use the fabric on single-color clothes (shirts, t-shirts, jeans, pants etc) to cover stains and spilled liquids. for example useful when you're out and coffee is dropped on your clothes and can't change them. if the stained cloth is white it immediately changes to the color of the coffee stain and voila the problem of bad stain is solved temporarily. want to change color back to white? use a drop of tipp-ex or use other color wite-out to change to different color
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Green tea Or chocolate addiction?
I love to drink green tea, every day I have two cups of powder-stirred green tea (matcha). When I told my friend who is a coffee-addict himself that I am addicted to green tea, he pointed out to me that I am not addicted to tea but to chocolate. I disagreed but I now realize that I must always have a small bite of chocolate with my tea otherwise matcha is too bitter. In Japan tea is always served with something sweet on the side. Could it be that I am not addicted to tea and addicted to chocolate instead? Is green tea a decoy to cover my chocolate addiction? I'm probably addicted to both I think. Do you have similar experience?
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Would you refund someone if you drank from his or her cup?
This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 2 April 2008 by member pedvieira86
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I witnessed this incident in a bookstore cafe. The cafe had a large round sofa with small tables in between for people to place their drinks. Next to me was sitting a woman in her thirties and next to her was a guy in his twenties. There was a table between them where they both placed their cups of coffee. The cups looked identical and they were placed too close to each other.
The guy and the woman seemed very absorbed at what they were reading. At some point the woman, apparently by mistake and without realizing it, grabbed the guy's cup and sipped from it. After a while the guy realizes it as there is lipstick on his cup!
The guy then starts complaining to the woman next to him. She apologizes. He then asks her to refund his coffee since she had just admitted it was her fault. The woman apologizes again but refuses to give a refund. The guy then becomes irritated and they get in an argument. The woman does not bulge, so he goes to the shop's cashier nearby to complain.
It gets better. The guy starts talking to the person at the cashier and he keeps pointing at the woman. At some point the woman who is watching this goes over the counter where the arguing gets louder and I can hear them very clearly!
The guy who had asked for the manager in the meantime demands that the shop refunds him for the mistake the woman had done. The manager agrees to do so! The woman, however, is very upset at all this and asks from the shop to not refund this guy because it was not the shop's fault what the customer had done with his cup of coffee...
Interesting huh? It gets better...
The cafe manager finally settles the dispute by offering to buy both the woman and the guy a new cup of coffee. The woman gets her coffee first and goes to sit back at her seat. The guy's coffee takes a bit more time to prepare, so by the time he is ready to go back to his seat, a friend of the woman who had just arrived a few minutes earlier takes his seat. At this point the cafe is crowded and there is no other seat where the guy can sit! Shit happened, right?
You can probably imagine what happened next. The guy becomes very upset and he starts arguing with the two ladies that this was his seat and that they should give it back to him...
Wish I had a camera with me to videotape this incident. It was one of those very rare incidents where you catch people arguing too much and in a somewhat absurd manner for things that seem too trivial. Or are they?
What do you think? Should the woman have refunded the guy? Why did the shop owner agree to refund the guy if it was the shop's fault? Why did the woman demand that the shop not refund the guy?
Any chance these two might have been a team of actors playing some kind of trick on a TV show? I looked around but there was no camera or TV crew...
I don't know. What would you have done if you had found yourself in that situation? If you had sipped someone else's coffee by mistake? Would you refund it?
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I witnessed this incident in a bookstore cafe. The cafe had a large round sofa with small tables in between for people to place their drinks. Next to me was sitting a woman in her thirties and next to her was a guy in his twenties. There was a table between them where they both placed their cups of coffee. The cups looked identical and they were placed too close to each other.
The guy and the woman seemed very absorbed at what they were reading. At some point the woman, apparently by mistake and without realizing it, grabbed the guy's cup and sipped from it. After a while the guy realizes it as there is lipstick on his cup!
The guy then starts complaining to the woman next to him. She apologizes. He then asks her to refund his coffee since she had just admitted it was her fault. The woman apologizes again but refuses to give a refund. The guy then becomes irritated and they get in an argument. The woman does not bulge, so he goes to the shop's cashier nearby to complain.
It gets better. The guy starts talking to the person at the cashier and he keeps pointing at the woman. At some point the woman who is watching this goes over the counter where the arguing gets louder and I can hear them very clearly!
The guy who had asked for the manager in the meantime demands that the shop refunds him for the mistake the woman had done. The manager agrees to do so! The woman, however, is very upset at all this and asks from the shop to not refund this guy because it was not the shop's fault what the customer had done with his cup of coffee...
Interesting huh? It gets better...
The cafe manager finally settles the dispute by offering to buy both the woman and the guy a new cup of coffee. The woman gets her coffee first and goes to sit back at her seat. The guy's coffee takes a bit more time to prepare, so by the time he is ready to go back to his seat, a friend of the woman who had just arrived a few minutes earlier takes his seat. At this point the cafe is crowded and there is no other seat where the guy can sit! Shit happened, right?
You can probably imagine what happened next. The guy becomes very upset and he starts arguing with the two ladies that this was his seat and that they should give it back to him...
Wish I had a camera with me to videotape this incident. It was one of those very rare incidents where you catch people arguing too much and in a somewhat absurd manner for things that seem too trivial. Or are they?
What do you think? Should the woman have refunded the guy? Why did the shop owner agree to refund the guy if it was the shop's fault? Why did the woman demand that the shop not refund the guy?
Any chance these two might have been a team of actors playing some kind of trick on a TV show? I looked around but there was no camera or TV crew...
I don't know. What would you have done if you had found yourself in that situation? If you had sipped someone else's coffee by mistake? Would you refund it?
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Cups with thermometer
This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 29 October 2007 by member gorillaki
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burn no more - either a thermometer sticker/magnet or a cup with a thermometer can save your mouth/lips from burns. i always burn the roof of my mouth, tongue and lips with morning coffee or tea... if i do this repeatedly, i'm worried it could lead to cancer, so, would be great to have a cup that tells the optimal temperature to drink w/o getting burns - sort of like the mood-ring
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burn no more - either a thermometer sticker/magnet or a cup with a thermometer can save your mouth/lips from burns. i always burn the roof of my mouth, tongue and lips with morning coffee or tea... if i do this repeatedly, i'm worried it could lead to cancer, so, would be great to have a cup that tells the optimal temperature to drink w/o getting burns - sort of like the mood-ring
Cool Microwave
This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 29 October 2007 by member james85
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What about a microwave that cools down your hot food or drink to the temperature you wanted?
It has happened to me many times, I order a coffee or hot chocolate and they serve it so hot, I have to wait for a few minutes before I take a sip or I burn my lips and tongue.
Could be useful. You can ask the staff back, could you cool down for me a bit?
Got a name for it too: Coolwave
I know, it sounds like name of shampoo or something...
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What about a microwave that cools down your hot food or drink to the temperature you wanted?
It has happened to me many times, I order a coffee or hot chocolate and they serve it so hot, I have to wait for a few minutes before I take a sip or I burn my lips and tongue.
Could be useful. You can ask the staff back, could you cool down for me a bit?
Got a name for it too: Coolwave
I know, it sounds like name of shampoo or something...
Friday, February 29, 2008
coffee lovers here
This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 27 February 2009 by member worldconfer
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Are you a coffee lover? Here's a recipe for you.
Add Ground pepper in the coffee filter before adding the coffee. Then add just a touch of saffron in the carafe. Final Step. Taste it ! :)
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Are you a coffee lover? Here's a recipe for you.
Add Ground pepper in the coffee filter before adding the coffee. Then add just a touch of saffron in the carafe. Final Step. Taste it ! :)
Friday, February 22, 2008
Best & Cheapest Espresso Cleaner
This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 22 February 2008 by member nikosb
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The other day in the office I had to clean the filter of my espresso machine because the coffee had clogged up those small holes. I tried using one of the metal brushes with very fine threads but could not get the threads to go into the holes.
Solution? I put the filter basket in a cup with hot water, added some dish soap and let it there for 30 minutes. Amazingly the holes had cleared up on their own. I did not have to do it anything more. Pretty cool!
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The other day in the office I had to clean the filter of my espresso machine because the coffee had clogged up those small holes. I tried using one of the metal brushes with very fine threads but could not get the threads to go into the holes.
Solution? I put the filter basket in a cup with hot water, added some dish soap and let it there for 30 minutes. Amazingly the holes had cleared up on their own. I did not have to do it anything more. Pretty cool!
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