Coffee inhaler

Le Whif, makers of inhalable chocolate, have now launched a coffee inhaler. David Edwards, a Harvard professor of biomedical engineering, and Parisian chef Thierry Marx developed the breathable coffee and chocolate. From the NY Post:

The coffee hits consist of powder inside lipstick-like containers that are pulled open, inserted in the mouth and inhaled.
The sticks are sold individually for $3 or in boxes of three for $8 -- and each stick delivers 100 milligrams of caffeine, the equivalent of a cup of espresso.
A whiffer can get up to nine hits from an individual stick, depending on how hard they inhale.

"Coffee good to the last puff"

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Angelos Taplatzidis

I look forward to that! Somehow the smell of freshly-grounded espresso cannot compare with its taste. I would much rather smell than taste.
Illern

Perfect for late nights in the server centre, no liquids allowed there :-)
AuntBarb

Can’t wait until this takes off with the teenagers.
mdh

“You know, a flapjack und a shigarette? No?”
- alisong76
  
  “Shmoke and a pancake?”
- MrsBug
  
  You guys are my new heroes.
efergus3

Inhaling this can NOT be good for your lungs. Black lung disease anyone?
- Anonymous
  
  I prefer my lungs like I prefer my men.
  
  White and frothy.
- sobreiro
  
  I like my lungs like I like my coffee
  - IWood
    
    Stuffed in a burlap sack on a donkey’s back as it picks its way down a Colombian mountain trail?
    
    Brave choice.
- Anonymous
  
  actually the particles are big enough to drop right in your mouth. they do NOT go into your lungs. it’s good to research before making negative comments.
Anonymous

Starbucks will soon be opening inhaler stations in their stores, mocha for the lungs. Mmmmmmm
febryle

Shigar und a waffle? No? Pipe und a crepe? No?
Anonymous

That cannot be good for you.
matisse

Millions of people all over the world suffer from a caffeine deficiency, but with regular treatment this can be controlled.
cymk

wow. Its even sold and packaged like cigarettes. We’ll never see this on US store shelves.

Still, even if you could sell it here, I don’t see the damn point it using it; has coffee gotten all that hard to drink?
dragonfrog

Ah, come on, this is just effete! If you’re going to inhale your coffee, just do it like normal people have since forever – grind it to espresso fineness or better, cut it into lines, and snort it. Or use a bump spoon. Same goes for cocoa.
Anonymous

Next, they will invent a pill that does the same thing.
- michiexile
  
  Whaddayamean _next_?
  
  I was popping caffeine pills (100mg/pill) about a decade ago!
Anonymous

Are they targeting breatharianists as a new consumer group?
Anonymous

Soon you will be able to inhail weed!!!… without actualy smoking it!!!!
Anonymous

the particles are too big to go into your lungs.
t3hmadhatter

Wow, that actually seems like a really good-*WHACK*

Sorry, that was an idiot. He has been dealt with.
Rich Keller

Is this so I can have coffee breath without staining my teeth?
max

i like my women like i like my coffee, intangibly suggested
MichaelRN

I prefer to take my caffeine the traditional way, intravenously.
Dornage

So you all are saying that all those years of inhaling nacho cheese powder and powdered black cherry kool-aide were bad for my lungs?
magicbean

This is horrifyingly dumb, straight out of Wall-E. I remember hearing about Le Whif when it first came out, and thought (a) what a great way to generate more plastic waste and (b) what a great way to distance people from actually having any kind of food system literacy.
?
“Do you know where chocolate comes from?”
“Tropical countries with farmers.”
“No silly, you are so old-fashioned, it comes from the clouds!”
“It doesn’t come from cocoa beans?”
“Heck no. Wise and wealthy scientists send robots into the sky to capture it in these plastic tubes!”

That they’ve made an attempt to use recyclable containers doesn’t really mollify me.
Clifton

I like my coffee like I like my women: icy, cold, and bitter.
- Anonymous
  
  Awsome ;0) A man who knows what he likes!!!
Anonymous

Dibs on coffee, chocolate and nitrous oxide
Anonymous

the quicker a hit comes on, the easier it is to get addicted to…when this no longer does it for the coffee addict the next logical step is to mainline it…imagine the profits…
swag

From the news last week:

http://www2.cw56.com/news/articles/local/BO137480/
Anonymous

They should just take it another step and implement it into our office ventilation system… that way we can increase productivity by 10% or more lolz.