Single serve coffee pots and their plastic pods are brewing up a lot of controversy, and Singapore-based designer Eason Chow has come up with a conceptual solution to the wastefulness. Instead of the plastic pods, the coffee pot uses sugar covered pods that dissolve in hot water. The pods would come in different sizes and flavors, and the amount of sugar would be adjusted by the thickness of the sugar coated shell. “Chow said he was inspired by sugar-coated candy from his childhood, which would reveal different flavors as the layers dissolved.”- Fast Company.

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