Training | 2010.03.03
Hi-tech coffee: What's the buzz?
To the untrained eye, the PC base unit belonging to Tim Quax, a computer programmer based in the Netherlands, looks like any other electric-green metal shell with huge black flames licking its sides. But inside the garish carapace of Quax\'s Compaq Deskpro lies neither motherboard nor disk drive. Instead, it contains a chamber for boiling water, a filter, a plastic nozzle and a place to store finely-ground Arabica beans. According to the machine\'s maker – who has melded the external parts of a computer with the functioning innards of a coffee machine – this is neither PC nor beverage generator. "It is a coffee-maker integration project," he says.
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