Wake Up and Sniff the Coffee

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Forget all the time and energy you waste by peacefully sipping a mug of warm coffee on a cold wintry day. Le Whif Breathable Coffee lets you inhale – yes, inhale – your caffeine. It’s the brainchild of Harvard professor David Edwards, who claims the experience is “kind of like smoking chocolate,” reported the Huffington Post.
 
Its Web site touts that Le Whif is “as sweet as chocolate, as light as air,” but it’s a little more complicated than that:
 
Users place one end of the stick, which is about the size of a lipstick tube, to their lips, then inhale gently. “Whiffers” intake about 100 milligrams of caffeine (which is equivalent to a small cup of espresso) and less than a single calorie with each Le Whif. The Le Whif product was made through particle engineering, which reduces coffee particles so that they’re small enough to be airborne, but too large to enter the lungs. It was developed through ArtScience Labs, an “international network of art and design labs experimenting at the frontiers of science' that seeks to 'promote socially beneficial innovations.”
 
The sticks come in three additional flavors: chocolate, raspberry chocolate, and mint chocolate. The company is even working on an inhalable three-course meal. Reminds us of the food-gum that Violet Beauregarde ingests in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
 
According to the Business Insider, these “smokeless caffeine cigarettes” are the “coolest invention ever.” What's your take? Tell us below. And be sure to check out the video with creator David Edwards!
 
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