Engadget: Instaprint aims to recreate the photo craze of yesteryear by tying it in to Instagram — the wildly popular (and currently iOS-only) app that lets you apply various filters to your photos for quick sharing among friends. The Instaprinter (our term, not the company’s) is essentially a modified Zink photo printer with internet connectivity and tie-ins to the Instagram API, that automatically prints items tagged with any hashtag you choose. As of now, the company is planning to rent Instaprint boxes and demo the service at SXSWi, targeting it as a novel way to capture all angles of whatever event you may be hosting — which to us seems like a fun idea.

Gizmodo: The coffee’s often underextracted, even in typically great shops—and that’s not surprising when you’ve got one barista trying to handle five hand-crafted coffees simultaneously with only his two hands. Consistency is hard. It requires care, man. Unless you’re a robot. Like Starbucks’ Clover Precision Pourover machine.

Right now, there is only one of these machines in the whole world. It’s at Roy St. Coffee & Tea in Seattle, which is actually a Starbucks coffee lab hidden in plain sight. (It is, very seriously, the best Starbucks in the whole world, perhaps the only one that is a legitimately good coffee shop.) The Clover Precision Pouro... Read more »

Popgadget: Instead of spending real money for an iPhone stand, get yourself one of these practical phone plungers for $15 bucks.

You can conveniently watch your videos, secure in the knowledge that probably no one else on this continent owns one. Or wants one.

Trends Updates: One of the most underrated items in the world of stationery is a magnifying glass, that for centuries has been used for intense scrutiny of documents and has been a most preferred investigative instrument for detectives and investigators. Apart from its most practical applications, the magnifying glass has also been a real favorite toy for kids, who mostly use it to set papers on fire using the glass’s lens as a catalyst to harness the sun’s light into an inflammable beam. Now, the magnifying glass has been resurrected in a highly technological manner, as Eschenbach, a premier German distributor of vision aids has now come out with quite an interesting product in the form of the all new ‘Magnifying Gla... Read more »

Gizmodiva: We just can’t trust anything these days! Who knows what kind of viruses and bacteria are floating around in your drinking water? You simply must carry Pure, a purification bottle to make sure that your water is super clean and healthy. this bottle works without any power or chemicals. All you have to do is put in the water and sterilize by winding for 90 seconds to power up a UV lamp. After you do this, it will do its job and your water will by 99.9% bacteria free. That is pretty awesome! It will be very handy when you go out camping or traveling. It will ensure your health is not compromised. It works on the dirtiest of water. Unfortunately it is just a concept at the moment. Here’s to hoping that it ... Read more »