Geek Out

This Daft Punk Coke Better Not Taste Funky

According to Hypebeast, Coke and Daft Punk are uniting in the form of these gold and silver Daft Coke bottles. The shiny sodas will be distributed at the kinds of clubs you don’t get into starting this March, and will also be distributed through colette in Paris.


February 16, 2011
Geek Out

Coca-Cola’s Secret Recipe Finally Revealed

The secret recipe of Coke has been hidden and locked down for 125 years. But apparently, not anymore. This American Life says they’ve found the ingredients that make up the delicious bubbly cola and have revealed it to our delight.


February 15, 2011
Gadgets

Car Makes Mentos And Diet Coke Trick Slightly Less Wasteful

Drop a pack of Mentos in a two-litre bottle of Diet Coke and you get yourself a nice soda geyser. It’s fun! It’s also pretty wasteful! With this kit you can at least tell yourself you’re using Mentos’ magical properties to propel a little plastic car up to 60m.


April 27, 2010

The Coke Bottle Cheat Sheet

If you have a printer/scanner and a bottle of Coke, you can make one of the most epic cheat sheets of all time. This method looks harder than studying… but also a bit more fun. [EatLiver via 9GAG via thenextweb]


March 31, 2010
Gadgets

Hitachi’s Biometric Coke Machine Lets You Pay With Your Pulse

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For those people who still have trouble figuring out which way to slide George into the vending machine, a prototype from Hitachi makes things a little simpler: it identifies caffeine fiends by reading the pulse in their fingertips.


January 27, 2010

Coke Even Makes Their Bottles Out Of Sugar

In what’s surely an attempt to spite high fructose corn syrup haters everywhere, Coke has redesigned their plastic bottle to contain what was once sugar cane. They call it a “PlantBottle”. (It’s not this thing.)


January 26, 2010
Mobile

Coca-Cola Cup Phone Makes Perfect Maxwell Smart Disguise

If you need more evidence that American culture has jumped the shark, check out the second Coca-Cola phone to hit in as many weeks. There’s just one thing worth mentioning: IT ACTUALLY WORKS.


November 25, 2009
Entertainment

Augmented Reality Goofiness Thanks To Avatar And Coke Zero

There’s just no escaping the Avatar marketing machine. Special bottle-shaped Coke Zero cans will soon hit the streets, and when held up to your Webcam, they’ll make a controllable helicopter appear on screen. Take a look.


September 24, 2009

Redesigned Coke Can Won’t Roll Off The Table

This concept Coke can design uses a manufacturing process called impact extrusion to form geometric shapes into the can rather than making it round. I’m not sure how practical it is, but I like it. [The Dieline via PSFK]


July 23, 2009
Gadgets

Coca-Cola’s 100-Flavour Soda Fountain Of The Future

Originally codenamed “Jet,” Coca Cola’s top secret flavour bomb now known as “FreeStyle” is poised to give adventurous palettes 100 different beverage options in a single machine.