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Tired of Coffee? Try This Spray-On Caffeine Instead The inventors claim that topically applied caffeine offers a consistent level of energy without the jolting buzz-then-crash that comes with drinking caffeinated drinks.

By Lambeth Hochwald

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Entrepreneurs: Ben Yu and Deven Soni, founders of San Francisco-based Sprayable Energy.

Bonding at sea: Yu, who studied molecular and chemical biology at Harvard before joining Peter Thiel's fellowship, and Soni, a venture capitalist, met when they shared a cabin during an entrepreneurs-only expedition to Antarctica in 2011. The duo collaborated on a few projects before developing what they describe as the world's first caffeine-based topical energy spray.

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