When do you ever come across a can of liquid you need to heat? I see how this would be a trivial feature to add from an engineering stand point, but it's basically useless for the user. Why possibly make this USB powered either, it's not like its something you'd want to plug into a laptop and use off the battery as heat pumps generally consume a significant amount of power (especially to effect fluids quickly enough to be worth bothering), and if your laptop is plugged in, you could obviously plug this in too. The cooling is neat though, I guess.
I thought of that, but that's not the right type of can. I belive that soup cans are generally smaller, and the air around it would prevent it from getting hot enough. Of course, if it did get hot enough, how would you remove it to eat it without further inconvenience?
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When do you ever come across a can of liquid you need to heat? I see how this would be a trivial feature to add from an engineering stand point, but it's basically useless for the user. Why possibly make this USB powered either, it's not like its something you'd want to plug into a laptop and use off the battery as heat pumps generally consume a significant amount of power (especially to effect fluids quickly enough to be worth bothering), and if your laptop is plugged in, you could obviously plug this in too. The cooling is neat though, I guess.
A can of soup!
I thought of that, but that's not the right type of can. I belive that soup cans are generally smaller, and the air around it would prevent it from getting hot enough. Of course, if it did get hot enough, how would you remove it to eat it without further inconvenience?
In Asia they make canned coffee that people can buy warm or cold.
Its USB powered because otherwise the most expensive part of this is the AC/DC converter.