Mugs that let coffee charge your life

Newswriters are often enough flooded with press releases, each trumpeting its own importance that most just get tossed. Every now and then, though, one makes a real impression, and not necessarily the way its authors intended.

Here’s the dope from one of those; up to you to decide if this is pure genius or your laugh for the day.

A start-up called Sovereign Drinkware has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $20,000 to start manufacturing the brightly-colored cups above, each of which features a removable chargeable base, a battery essentially, that can charge your phones and other devices while you drink your coffee. As of this writing, they’ve got $205 in pledges; the site says production will only start if they raise the whole $20,000 they are asking for.

The inventor offers two reasons you should want the cup: “I can charge myself with caffeine while I charge my electronic devices with electricity” and it avoids the dangers of using public charges at airports, where data thieves might have access.

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