Well, as much as I love coffee, I had to find out if there were some cool stuff about coffee on GooHack.

The result?

Well, I found this Youtube video on how to make instant laser coffee.

This has to be one of the coolest laser videos I’ve seen in awhile although I can stop wondering how the coffee will taste…

Video after the jump!

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Today, we will cover several ways that can help you to reduce cost of your printing, whether you are running a home business or a company with 1000 employees.

Make sure to Preview your documents before printing:

A lot of people might think this is something they do all the time but the truth is that most people waste a lot of paper printing out the wrong portion of their content, including myself.

Use that “Preview” button to preview what you are printing. Almost all applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Photoshop, and MS Word have this feature.

At least think about how many million trees would be saved if “everyone” used the Preview button?

Here’s an example of print preview on Firefox: (Yes, it’s so simple, isn’t it? Your actions can save a tree.)

Use Draft mode and Black and White mode for Drafts:

You can save additional time and ink if you are still working on your draft versions by using the draft mode.

Simply click on “Properties” and you should be able to set your printer to “Draft” or “Fast Draft” mode as shown here:

Save even more ink by printing in Grayscale:

Scan all documents “digitally” into CD or DVDs

Have you thought about all the stuff that could be digitized into a Jpeg or PDF file into a single CD or a DVD?

A lot of times, people will ask you to fax some important documents in order to verify your information when doing business.

By having all documents “digitized” and accessible from a single CD or DVD (or even your G-mail), you no longer have to remember where you left that Social Security card, passport, Business License, etc…etc… Although it is good idea to keep the original copies, I find it easier to e-mail my digital copies straight from G-mail.

I could be anywhere in the world and have access to all my important documents with just 1 CD or DVD instead of lugging all your documents everywhere with you, especially going over-seas.

Best ways to digitize your documents?

Get a good office scanner. I use an HP Deskjet F380, which cost me about $70 to do printing, scanning, and copying all-in-one. Although it’s slower than a laserjet, I can do most office work using it and it scans reasonably fast. I use it to scan all my invoices, receipts, and anything that can be scanned.

If you can afford it, there are some really nice laser version of the Deskjet, LaserJet M5025, which can scan hundreds of documents at a time and send them to your e-mail when its done via a single PDF file. This can prove to be very handy for all those POs and Invoices you have stacked up in huge boxes. I remember on one of my first jobs, I digitized about 20 boxes of POs (around 100,000 letter sized papers) from Wal-mart. (Think of how many trees I saved for their future POs!)

Nowdays, that company can simply access every one of their POs via a DVD-ROM.

Buy ink cartridges online from 3rd party suppliers

Buy cheap ink cartridges from 3rd party suppliers like DataBazaar.com. I find that their prices are much cheaper even if you are buying an OEM brand.

CD and DVD Labels

Now, just make sure to label them right using good CD labels, especially if you do have a lot of data to digitize. You can download free CD templates over here. These templates are great if you actually want to organize your digitized documents. You can even get some really good discounts on CD/DVD labels here.

Label Printers

If you like to spend more money, you can always get a label printer too. I have tried Dymo label printers before and these work really good with address labels or CD/DVD labels.

Print Labels and get your mail delivered faster!

Instead of spending time writing the addresses, I use my printer to print out labels so I save time on my frequent mailings and my mail gets there faster.
(Did you know that US Postal Service actually uses a scanner to process mail? If you have handwritten addresses, your mail will could actually take 1-2 days more due to manual scan by human workers. I did learn this through an executive manager I talked to at Pitney Bowes.)

By using labels instead of handwriting, you will save yourself hassle of writing and your mail will get to your destination faster. (You can even print out the US Postal Service address bar code on the envelope itself to ensure super fast delivery.)

You can also save some money by ordering labels from online label shops such as WorldLabel.com, which I have used before and found 40-50% cheaper than retailers. They even have popular “size-compatible” Avery labels, much cheaper than buying the branded ones.

Now, if you think this blog post will “change” printing behaviors of our readers, please leave a comment on how many trees you think we saved today.

These are great they glow a light sabre sort of glow, but if you forget for one second that these are not light sabres then perhaps you will see a really stylish lamp

Product Features:

Mini Glowing Desk Lamps look like Star Wars Light sabres
Choose from the Red Darth Vader sabre, or the Blue Luke Skywalker sabre
Imported from Japan
Officially Licensed Star Wars Collectable
Requires 2 AAA batteries (not included)
Each Lightsabre Stands 16″ High

Priced at $19.99

Source [Think Geek]

Now this may be considered good by some people and really bad by others, but whatever the general consensus of opinion this thing is out and no doubt somebody somewhere is using this to spy on someone else.

This device uses the lobster vision, which is exactly what they say it is. It uses the same principle of vision as a lobster would to find its way through the murky waters.

But there are issues here too, the devices uses a type of x ray, which I believe could be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands or even the right hands, so should this device be available to just anyone? I hope not!

Source [The Raw Feed]

The long awaited return of Knightrider will soon be upon us, but the star of the show has always been the car named KITT rather than the star named “The Hoff”.

Some of the features of the new KITT are the following:

Laser weapons system,
Nanotech cloaking,
Laser-guided missile defence,
3D heads-up display,
Military-grade GPS,
Holographic projection
And even a Mini-KITT reconnaissance drone (whatever that may be?)

Which is ok, but what about the jet thrusters?

Source [Gizmodo]

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Yey, Laser Christmas tree!  It’d be great if you had a Christmas Rave in your house.

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This is no ordinary joy stick as is comes with a four great games stored on the memory.

The games are a light sabre duel, assault on Hoth, flying an x-wing and finally the battle of Endor, plenty of action for any Star Wars fan.

Priced at $25

Source [Urban Outfitters]

Now I am not sure about this one, simply because it is made by Eureka Aerospace, but whatever the case the idea is pretty cool.

This device if it could be made portable enough could stop police chases once and for all, no body wants to see high speed chases apart from in the movies as they are a danger to all, so anything that could stop it has to be a good thing.

However what happens if they miss and hit the driver head?

Source [New Gadgets]