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March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

While there’s plenty of discoveries that no doubt wouldn’t have been possible without coffee, few have been as directly influenced as this latest fit of inspiration from Ivan Vakarelski of the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences in Singapore, who apparently saw the future of TV screens in a coffee stain.