Monday, May 21, 2012

Stein of Science: Liquid nitrogen-grade booze container




The Stein of Science comes in a variety of sizes.


(Credit: Funranium Labs)

Meet Funranium Labs founder Phil Broughton.


He's a radiation safety specialist at the University of California at Berkeley. He was once a cryogenics technician for the Amundsen-Scott South Pole scientific research station. He's really into coffee and beer and finding the best way to deliver those products into his system, and he has boldly offered himself up as a guinea pig for science by personally testing and developing products for discerning geek customers.



The Black Blood sampler features different types of coffee. (Click to enlarge.)


(Credit: Funranium Labs)

Let's start with the Stein of Science. Each stein is crafted from a bench top liquid nitrogen dewar flask. That means it will keep your beer frosty cold for quite a long time. That also means it's not cheap. A 655-milliliter Stein of Science costs $230. Your fellow lab rats will be insanely jealous when you show up to the next party with one of these bad boys.


Funranium Labs has also developed a way to blow espresso completely out of the water with a highly concentrated cof... [Read more]



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