News Brews blends RSS feeds into multicultural beverage

Getting updates on the weather and current time is no problem for modern day coffee machines, but Benjamin Brown's project aims to blend the hottest worldwide news into a multicultural cup of joe. Rather than taking time to find out what's going on in the world around you with your eyes, the News Brews hopes to shovel the latest RSS feeds into your brain via your taste buds. The steampunk-inspired device "connects to internet news feeds and parses them to determine the relative frequency at which different coffee growing regions are mentioned," which means that your brew will differ each day depending on how frequently a given country is mentioned. Of course, not everyone will be down with an unexpected coffee suicide of sorts to wake them in the AM, but trying to figure out what your mouth is reading on the drive to work certainly beats running others off the road or illegally texting at stop lights.

[Via TechDigest]

[Money @ May 16th 2007 3:07AM]

That's CRAZY... where do I get one?

http://www.goodforyourwallet.com/

[Scooter @ May 16th 2007 3:53AM]

daft concept. Instead, how about a coffee urn that makes the brew bitter or sweet, depending on the mood of the nation?

[Fatass of Kickassness @ May 17th 2007 10:33AM]

Yeah, but I wouldn't want my coffee tasting profoundly stupid every day.

[Chuckles McGee @ May 16th 2007 10:39AM]

I'll fearfully taste each brew, dreading the day I get a blackened Americano with a hint of Venezuelan.

[Zoundguy @ May 16th 2007 1:38PM]

So, I am the local Starbucks snob... in fact some of the employees direct newbies to me, so, with that said, I desperately want one of these!