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Let the fart jokes begin.
One for every cubicle? Not a bad business model.
The biggest schism between the US and the UK is beans. The UK going for regular Heinz beans and the American standard is the Pork and Beans. Perhaps this invention will bring us closer.
Hot instant coffee, tea, a can of soup, chili, beans, peas, whatever.
If it runs off batteries rather than plugging in, it’s more for camping than the home or the cubical. I think I might rather have a plug in version and get a battery pack for it if I thought I needed one.
Is it USB powered? I’m in.
I think the key phrase is rechargeable like a laptop or a shaver. If so you can plug it up. It may even run while plugged up. Maybe I could go for one.
Oh great – another device to keep us tethered to our cubicles. Sorry, I want an excuse to get away from my building during the day, and lunch is a good a time as any to do it. I don’t even take my cell-phone to lunch with me, all to serve as a reminder that I am not a slave to my job. This is just nuts.
I’m surprised Ron Popeil hasn’t latched onto it though.
The idea is that while it is battery powered it can be recharged via USB. In the USA it may be a camping tool but from all those I’ve corresponded with in the UK they say it’s definitely an office product.
This looks like something the Onion News would do. It’s so small, I find it hard to imagine it would work. I suspect this is actually just a model or very early proof of concept.
Since the light stays on ALL THE TIME, it would run down the battery very quickly. Plus if stop the video at :30 you will see the LCD display is actually a decal or sticker. So I call… Shanagans!
Show us a video again when you actually have a working unit… This isn’t CES you know.
Put it in your camping trailer along with this:
http://tinyurl.com/l5b4sp
I’m be a real man, I eats me beans cold, the way God mean’t thems to be!
It would be cool if you could use the heat from your PC’s CPU/GPU and power adapter to power a hot plate. Then you could keep your coffee warm or heat your lunch.
I envision a centralized cooling system in the PC the collects hear from the CPU, the GPU, and the Power Adaptor and then routes that to an external radiator, the like liquid cooled PC’s do now.
The external radiator loop could go through multiple devices designed to wick off heat from the fluid, like a hot plate, before delivering the hot fluid to a radiator that removes the last of the heat.
Some will put fish sticks in them and smell up the entire office.
I wonder how long it would take to heat up a cup of coffee or a container of food. At home, when the coffee gets cold our 900 watt microwave takes about a minute to heat a cup to acceptable temperature. Batteries aren’t going to get anywhere near 900 watts. And chances are it won’t do too many per charge, perhaps one or two. There’s not a lot of room for the batteries, and the magnetron has to take up some room as well.
I agree with #9 Kelvington, it’s just a model, a proof-of-concept — we never saw it in actual operation, it has no obvious interlock, the light always stays on, and so on.
Anyway, this will never fly in the U.S. — Homeland Security will classify it a WMD, useful to terrorists!