Starbucks Launches a Reusable Cup

The public clamored for a greener solution, and they answered. Starbucks is rolling out a novel possible solution today: a $1 reusable tumbler.

USA Today reports, the Seattle-based coffee company will start selling the plastic cups, bearing its logo and resembling the paper version, at all its company-owned stores in the USA and Canada in an effort to get customers to kick their disposable habit. It will 10 cent discount for each purchase, so the cup pays for itself after 10 uses.

Iphone as Food Lab

Soon, your iPhone can test food for allergens. Two new mobile apps are launching for Smart Phone peripherals that will allow you to test, as you would in a lab, for a variety of allergens.