Drinking coffee out of a mug made of coffee might be the most meta thing ever.
And now, it's a reality.
3D printing filament manufacturer 3Dom, with biocomposite developer c2renew, has produced the world's first 3D printing filament made from recycled coffee grounds.
A company representative told Mashable much of the impetus to create this product was "taking something that otherwise would have been thrown away and making something useful out of it."
The trademarked product, cheekily called WoundUp, is made of coffee grounds and PLA, which is a biodegradable thermoplastic aliphatic polyester. It can be used by any 3D printer that uses PLA filament.
It's environmentally friendly, has natural grains in the product thanks to the beans' inherent grit and is available for purchase starting at $49 per kg.
Perhaps best of all, as the filament goes through your hot 3D printer, it actually smells like coffee. It's a biodegradable, scratch-n-sniff coffee mug/action figure/shrine to Jon Hamm/whatever you want to print.
3Dom plans to release two more food-based filaments before the end of the year.
It only gets better than that when you realize that the next inevitable step is making a printing filament with the byproducts of Nutella*.
*This is purely a dream the author holds near and dear to her heart and is in no way factual or backed by Mashable or the production company.