New breaktrough USB product: coffee mug

[bbrv]

OK, you are sending the WRONG message for us, BUT GOOD avatar "alx."

:-D

R&B   :-)

[KrasH]

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).

[Atheist]

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, 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".

[Damion]

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.

[Quixote]

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.

[Quixote]

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.

[Floid]

...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!

[Dan]

Well there is USBpoweradapters for mobilephones too.
Power your mobile from your laptop. :-)