Yes, you heard right. Now you can inhale your coffee. Well, sort of.

According to The Associated Press, a Harvard scientist has created a new product  called Aeroshot that allows you to breath in your daily dose of caffeine. The small canisters carry 4-6 puffs of caffeinated powder, giving you about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.

Several politicians have condemned the product, with New York Senator Charles Schumer calling it ‘nothing more than a club drug’ and warning the public of the product’s ability to enhance the user’s capacity for alcohol consumption.

Source: The Associated Press

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Time Magazine honours the internet’s “scrappy newcomers and established players” in their annual ‘best of the web’ special.

Key players that made the cut this year include the personal documentary site Proust,  online intiative venture Kickstarter, and e-commerce darlings like Polyvore and Airbnb.

To view the complete list, click here (via Time Magazine)

Russia may fail to fulfill its obligations in delivering crews to the International Space Station after Wednesday’s accident with Russia’s Progress M-12M space freighter, a source in Russia’s space industry said.

The space freighter fell in South Siberia’s Altai Republic on Wednesday after failing to separate from the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, the first loss of the Progress freighter in the history of Russia’s space industry. A rocket engine failure is believed to have caused the accident.

Read the full story here (via RIA Novosti)

Russian aerospace engineers join race to provide wealthy thrill-seekers with the ultimate holiday destination.

They  have announced the ultimate get-away-from-it-all holiday, revealing plans to put a hotel into orbit 200 miles above Earth by 2016. The four-room Hotel in the Heavens would house up to seven guests who would be able to cavort in zero-gravity while watching as our planet turns.

Read the full story here (via The Guardian)

Apple’s ground breaking technology and its uncanny ability to understand what consumers really want

Apple built its business on its highly desirable but niche Macintosh computer range. But Apple’s invention of the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad, has changed the way consumers interact with technology and given Apple unprecedented mass market appeal.

Read the rest of this article here. (via CNN)

Google has moved to reassure a global television industry quaking at the prospect that the Internet search giant is about to move onto TV sets.

In a keynote speech to Europe’s leading broadcasting industry conference, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt acknowledged the company’s immense scale built on search advertising — a scale which almost everyone in the media industry fears as a threat to their existing businesses — but said the nature of technology and the internet also made Google vulnerable.

Read the rest of this article here. (via CNN)

Johannesburg – Non-executive chairperson of Naspers [JSE:NPN] Ton Vosloo said on Friday.

“We are focusing more on growing our businesses organically and on developing new technologies. This may dampen earnings in the year ahead, as the cost of developing these businesses is expensed through the income statement. However, we believe this strategy will stimulate long-term growth prospects,” Vosloo said.

Read the rest of this article here. (via News24)

Much has been said about the amazing contributions Steve Jobs has made to the technology world as Apple’s leader. But what can we expect from Apple now that Jobs has stepped down as CEO?

New CEO Tim Cook has assured employees that “Apple is not going to change,” and a peek at what we’ll see from Cupertino suggests Apple plans to remain on the vanguard.

Read the full story here (via Wired.com)

With rebel forces in Tripoli and Moammar Gadhafi on the run, the end could be near for the Libyan civil war.

Sporadic fighting continues in the capital city of the oil-rich North African nation, NATO warplanes are still patrolling overhead, and there’s always the danger of Gadhafi true-believers launching a fresh insurgency.

Read the full story here (via Wired.com)

Cape Town – While green technology depends on a county’s resources to implement it, solar has been gaining momentum, the World Bank has said.

“It is very country specific – it depends on the availability of resources – first of all. There is a very strong emphasis on a number of technologies, but particularly solar technology is getting a lot of prominence,” Gevorg Sargsyan programme co-ordinator for the World Bank Climate Technology Fund told News24.

Read the full story here (via News24)

Cape Town – Research In Motion has announced that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is officially available in SA.
“Vodacom Group Limited and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is now available in South Africa from Vodacom,” the firms said in a joint statement.

Read the full story here (via News24)

So you’ve decided your business needs a mobile phone app. The design is done, the information architect has given it the all clear

That just leaves the small but important matter of how you’re going to make money out of it. Read the rest of this article here. (via BBC)

The diesel-fueled world of Formula One may seem an unlikely source of inspiration for a major carbon-cutting initiative, but technology used for coordinating pit-stops is primed to slash emissions from airports across the globe.

Read the full story here (via CNN)

As stunning developments in the technology industry go, this one happened in a manner that felt inevitable.

In yesterday afternoon’s crisp, matter-of-fact letter, Steve Jobs told Apple’s board and the world that he was unable to continue as the company’s chief executive. He asked to serve as chairman, and recommended that Apple COO Tim Cook succeed him as CEO. And he said that Apple’s best days were ahead of it and expressed gratitude to his coworkers.

Read the rest of this article here (via Time Magazine)

For the Blu-Ray release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the sage Frank Oz puppet has recieved a digital makeover.

Has Yoda had some work done on his famously craggy face? Yes, in a sense: Twelve years after Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace debuted in theaters, the Jedi master has received a digital makeover.

Read the rest of this article here (via The Week)

I was standing right next to Steve Jobs in 1989 and it was the closest thing I ever felt to being gay.

The guy was incredibly wealthy, good looking enough to get any girl, a nerd super-rockstar who had just convinced my school to buy a bunch of NeXT machines (which, btw, were in fact the best machines to program on at the time) and I just wanted to be him. I wanted to be him ever since I had the Apple II+ as a kid.

Read the rest of this article here (via The Huffington Post)

In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research  center in Silicon Valley called Xerox PARC.

He was the co-founder of a small computer startup down the road, in Cupertino.  His name was Steve Jobs.

Read the rest of this article here (via The New York Times)

Research in Motion (RIM) has formally announced its BlackBerry Messenger Music service, which will be made commercially available later this year.

The service is currently in a closed beta trial, starting in Canada, the US and the UK.

Read the full story here. (via ITWeb)

From San Francisco to Shanghai to Sydney, fans of Apple paid extraordinary tribute to Steve Jobs after he resigned as CEO, calling him an icon

The outpouring on blogs and Twitter began minutes after Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January, announced he would leave the chief executive’s post but carry on as chairman of Apple. Read the rest of this article here. (via News24)