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This is an especially bad HN title because the Aeropress has been coffee-famous for years and years now. There are Aeropress competitions, an Aeropress aftermarket, and cafes that use the Aeropress.

The right title --- even though I don't like it either --- is the article's: "The Invention of the Perfect Cup of Coffee".

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Very true. I do love my Aeropress, but I have been loving it for several years. And I'm pretty sure it was fairly old news when I discovered it.

"Inventor of Aerobie flying ring created innovative coffee maker in 1994"

BTW, I think that the author (or Alan Adler) has the invention date of the AeroPress wrong. I copied the date 1994 from the article, but I think it should be 2004 of 2005. (And the Aerobie ring was invented around 1984.)

Otherwise the period between invention and mass production and sales is over a decade. I remembered that I ordered a box directly at Aerobie in the USA in 2006 because the AeroPress was not yet for sale in The Netherlands.

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