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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: odin on March 15, 2003, 08:31:01 AM
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After years of long research Japanese scientists have finally come up with the ultimate use of USB. No drivers required!:
The coffee mug which keeps your coffee longer hot! (http://www.dct-net.co.jp/special/usb_hot.html)
source: tweakers.net (http://pricewatch.tweakers.net/nieuws/25964) (Dutch)
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I allways suspected these people were nuts but this one really tops it off.
I don't want a cable connected to my mug! Just buy a coffee machine with a thermos coffee pot and take that pot with you!
Now, if they would just invent another way to keep your coffee hot. What about a new motherboard design where the processor is placed at the top of you case. Then place your cup on the case!!
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That's actually pretty cool 'IMO'....I'd buy one.
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I dunno how you folks read japanese? links, but
my poor 200W PS has no business powering a coffe mug. (http:// http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kihoalu/images/happy.gif)
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Oh my god!
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
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We think that is pretty cool too...:-D
We are also thinking that the power needs to be coming in the other direction (not through the USB obviously). We saw at CES some very interesting solar power packs that can be used in remote locations to keep your laptop or PDA ready to go.
Anywhere, anytime -- mobility is the key...and now with hot coffee too! ;-)
Just need to figure out a way to keep the champagne cold now!
Best regards,
Raquel and Bill :-)
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Dilbert would be proud!
Anyway, how about a water-cooled system that uses coffee instead of water? It gets cycled round the CPU, RAM and PSU a few times, and comes out of a tap on the front of the case. It'd work well with the latest P4, but the A1 and Pegasos would probably run too cool for it to work :-)
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The coffee mug which keeps your coffee longer hot!
Now that's what I call progress!!!!! :-D
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this is so stupid, adding heat to a coffie cup
will cause the water in the coffie to disapear
and after some time, the coffie 'aroma' is
destroyed.
Coffie in a normal coffie cup is hot long enough
to enjoy the coffie...you cant expect to
take a cup of coffe, put it on the table, go for
a walk an hour and come back to the same good coffie....
I dont know about most people, but I only
drink 'fresh' coffie :-)
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Can you say...
:roflmao:
AmigaOS4 Dongle
:roflmao:
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I dont know about most people, but I only
My coffee mug is 24 ounces. It is well insulated, but even still by the time I finish my coffee it is not as hot as it could be.
Besides it's just a cool gadget, novelty or no novelty:-)
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I just wonder how much this useless piece'o junk (but cool junk :-)) would cost. Can anyone read Japanese here? =)
@catohagen: I agree with you, I only drink fresh coffee too. IIRC reheated coffee ( :nervous: ) forms some kind of chemical in the reheating process which is bad for you :-P.
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And I thought USB modems were a waste of a USB port...
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Bwaaaahahahahahahahahaaaa....
Ist, it's a USB adjustable light,
then came the adjustable fan
now it's a coffee mug warmer.
Gee, what will they think of next!! :-P
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OK, you are sending the WRONG message for us, BUT GOOD avatar "alx."
:-D
R&B :-)
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This is pretty funny stuff.
I still remember something that I was told many years ago. "Computers and Coffee don't mix" then I was shown an A1200 motherboard with that lethal mixture. Was not pretty. Almost made me cry. (this is back in the day when A1200's were only on the market for about a year or so).
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Hello Darth_X,
:-D :-D, naughty
Hello DanDude,
I guess you didn't see the cigarette lighter, that you put in a 5 1/4 drive bay.
Well all of you "would be" inventors, keep going, you can have upto 127 devices on a USB chain, there must be 100 sockets still left to fill.
AmigaOne! If only the AOS coders had had this (http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/08/keyboard.html), we would have had it done 6 months ago!
P.S. If you look closely you'll see a "All your base are belong to us".
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Actually if you just kept a 'lid' on the mug
it would preserve the flavor for quite a
while. The release of so - called "aromatic"
hydrocarbons is what contributes to the loss
of flavor over time. Applying a small amount
of heat to the mug along with a lid would
really be no different than a thermos or an
airpot.
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Odin offered:
I just wonder how much this useless piece'o junk (but cool juunk ) would cost. Can anyone read Japanese here? =)
;-) It's a USB Hot Coaster!
As described, it comes in orange, cool gray, navy, and silver.
The graph indicates the decline in temperature over time of a cup equipped with the hot coaster (red line,) and a cup without (blue line.)
The ad doesn't address the question of cost. This allows retailers to set their own prices, so shop around.
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Athiest advised:
AmigaOne! If only the AOS coders had had this, we would have had it done 6 months ago!
;-) Bobsonsirjohnny needs one of those.
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...and here I have to come in and say something serious...
There was also a USB toothbrush spotted a few weeks back (link somewhere on TheInquirer) - but as amusing as these things are, they mesh in with something noted on Slashdot a while back, and by others previously.
Namely, the power bricks that come with most, if not all of today's gadgetry are fairly inefficient, as well as being heavy and inconveniently sized. While these items are amusing, they demonstrate the evolution of a personal power network ('digital hub,' anyone? ;)) - ideally, most of the junk on your desk could be powered off one big-but-efficient switching supply, and you'd only need to lug one battery while going mobile.
Of course, USB probably isn't the best way to do it, given the amperage limitations in the spec, and the reliance of the USB hubs I've met on bigger, heavier transformers, but it's a start to the thought-process, and points to one of the nifty paradoxes of our day- do you want your network over your powerlines, or your power over your network? :-P
Sort of an amusing endgame to the saga of Tesla vs. Edison. Personally, I'm not too concerned with the outcome, as long as I can charge up the winner with one of these (http://mobilewise.com/)!
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Well there is USBpoweradapters for mobilephones too.
Power your mobile from your laptop. :-)