When Coffee Goes High Tech
from the head-for-the-hills dept
Apparently coffee was in need of a jolt of high tech inspiration. Starting in just a few weeks you'll be able to buy a product that most of you probably never thought was necessary at all: a single serving can of coffee that heats itself. The idea is that you buy the can, and when you're ready to drink it, you push a button, and it heats itself up. No batteries or electricity needed. Just push the button, let the calcium oxide (yum!) mix with water, and voila, you have a steaming hot cup of joe. Who knew that heating up water was too difficult?
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Hey, what about quick heating cars?
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Nescafe shipped these in the UK a while back.
Sadly, it wasn't great coffee but the cans were useful if you wanted to take a couple in a pack when cycling/hill-walking/biking etc and would end up somewhere without services.
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Re: Nescafe shipped these in the UK a while back.
They were expensive and you only get a tiny bit of the good stuff inside the can...
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Hot Ice
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