As the water heats, the rising air pressure makes it flow upwards from the glass water chamber into the metal brewing unit. Once the coffee is ready, take it off the heat and the coffee will return through a filter into the Kahva's glass bottom via a vacuum that has been created by the cooling of the coffee maker. To pour, simply turn the grip and let the coffee flow. [Yanko]

Dear Gizmodo,

A couple of years ago I helped my co-worker move her computer. After picking up her monitor, I was both repulsed and fascinated by what was growing underneath her Dell monitor. You can even see the logo "growth" (?). As you can see, this was no average dust bunny or coffee ring. Needless to say I had to take pictures to capture the moment before it got up and attacked us!

Enjoy!
From a long-time reader; first-time emailer
jam

We can only speculate what caused this. Probably a sugary coffee spill that got under the monitor base, with the Dell logo forming as the mold grew up.

You people are disgusting. Yet, somehow weirdly mesmerizing. I doubt anyone can best any of these, but what about cellphones, PDAs, laptops and other gadgets? Keep them coming to tips@gizmodo.com.

It's Not Cheap: An equal amount of this coffee at Starbucks will cost you $1.74, while these TDiscs are $9.29 for a pack of 12 single-serve pods, or $.77 each. However, you'll need to buy one of these single-serve Tassimo hot beverage systems made by Braun, which will cost you about $130 at Target. A bit of quick math tells us you'll need to drink 134 cups to make up the price difference.

Noisy: If you're going to be making coffee early in the morning before anyone else wakes up, this Tassimo brewer is as noisy as a motorcycle sitting outside your front door.

Easy: It's convenient. Pop in a pod, push a button and your coffee is ready in just a minute or two. Might be easier than driving to Starbucks and putting up with all those crowds of poseurs with their pseudo-hip herd behavior.

Taste Verdict: Excellent. The coffee brewed with this little TDisc tastes exactly the same as the coffee you'd get at Starbucks.

All this fuss about Starbucks, and we're not too crazy about its coffee, anyway. It's as strong as a shot of popskull, has a slightly burnt, bitter taste and is way overpriced, but if that's your jones, now you can perfectly reproduce all that at home. If someone could just figure out how to accurately and easily create a Starbucks Frappuccino à chez moi, then we'd be really stoked. [Tassimo]

The brushed steel exterior is cool to the touch (why does that sound like something from Danielle Steele?) and there's a cancel button if you think you're giving your bread the wrong treatment. Oh, and there's no dicing with death as you stick the knife down the slot in search for that dwarf piece of toast, as there's a special high-lift toasting lever. My only complaint is that the TT6190 doesn't have four slots, because I'm a greedy girl who can woof eight slices in one sitting.

Krups lands either a toaster or UFO in your kitchen [Sci-Fi Tech]

The Amazing Nintendo Wii-Playing Dog? [TecheBlog]

Chris Dimino [via Treehugger]

A US company has come up with a headset that reads your brainwaves—and they plan on marketing it to gamers. NeuroSky's prototype measures a person's baseline brain-wave activity, including signals that relate to concentration, relaxation and anxiety. So, if you're playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour and you lose concentration, you could find your shot buried in the rough if you fail to keep your Zen-like concentration.

The company has already developed a version based on Star Wars. Don the Darth Vader helmet, which contains a sensor that reads the brain's signals and, if you concentrate, your lightsaber remains illuminated. Start thinking about your girlfriend dressed as Princess Leia, with Danish Pastries over her—oops—and you lose the Force, Luke. The headset is expected to go into production later this year and could cost as little as $20. – Ad Dugdale

[Yahoo via The Raw Feed]

Here is a fully mostly automated waffle machine. It's powered by a 4 liter valve pressure system and the occasional low-powered nudge.

If your co-worker/cohabitants don't know what a dork you are (impossible), you might want to turn down the audio. Because there is some serious geek giggling going on.

Fully Automated Waffle Machine [via digg]

Four separate image designs—a sun, a cup of coffee, a smiley face or a birthday cake. You know what? As jaded as we've become over cutesy gadgets, this thing's pretty great. We're buying these as gifts for everybody this Xmas. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Brookstone via Coolest Gadgets]

Got the game to get someone to come home with you, but not the skills to seal the deal by making them breakfast in the morning? This double compartment hinged non-stick pan makes omelet folding a no-brainer (Wolfgang Puck has a nice recipe to get you started), and the three cup insert makes it just as easy to poach eggs.

Omelet/Egg Poacher Pan] [The Home Marketplace, via Kitchen Contraptions]

Boiled egg fan finds the way to make perfect toast soldiers [Telegraph]

Vince here. As I awoke this morning for the daily Gizmodo grind, I looked in the fridge for something to eat for breakfast. Some Apple-Cinnamon Dannon Yogurt caught my eye so I snatched it up so I could consume it as fast as humanly possible. I noticed a cute message on top of the foil lid as I was opening the yogurt: "WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH 3.6 MILLION POUNDS OF PLASTIC?" That got me thinking and I decided what I would indeed do with all that plastic. I think I'd donate 1 million pounds to Fischer Price so that they could increase R&D in their Power Wheels sector. I don't know about you, but when it comes to a good time, nothing says "I rule and you don't" more than Power Wheels. So what about the other 2.6 million pounds of plastic? I wrote Dannon about my concern for this issue. I voiced that 2.6 million pounds of plastic could indeed build a huge dildo but that would not be a justified cause. Eventually I realized that I had been standing in my underwear for 15 minutes in the kitchen reciting this out loud and the yogurt was getting warm. I shook my head in disgust knowing that the 3.6 million pounds of plastic would in fact NOT be going to dildo manufacturing. What a shame. Let us know what you'd do with the 3.6 million pounds of plastic in the comments because Dannon thinks that helping kids out by using it for toys is a good idea. If only they knew.

Dannon Product Page [Dannon]