Self heating coffee containers exposed

[Joe]

A company called Ontech have created a self heating beverage conatainer and have teamed up with a coffee-peadler called Woflgang Puck to create a self heating coffee container.

This is a container that heats coffee by activating a simple heating mechanism ... the perfect thing for peeps who are too lazy to leave the computer and walk to the kitchen to make coffee (lucky for me my espresso machine is beside my computer )

Once activated, they reach 145 degrees in about 6 minutes. This isn't a review of the beverage, it's all about the stuff that makes the liquid hot, how it works, pictures and links to patents....

the heating mechanism uses the Exothermic (gives out energy) chemical reaction between Calcium Oxide and Water to heat the beverage

<<Chemistry Lessons remembered here>>>

CaO + H2O >>>>> Ca(OH)2 (+Heat/Energy)

<<and forgotten here>>>

The coffee is made by a company called Wolfgang Puck (I have never heard of them) and is REHEATED .. so the coffee could taste like crap

I could see this product selling well @ road-side stations and hacker convntions (like DEFCON or a BSD Hack-A--Thon)

I wonder can you get this in the UK???



Full caffeine infused story HERE

 

[Dav0s]

jow you do realise that nescafe have had self heating coffee for a good 4 years now

 

[limqareb]

in malta even self heating hot chocolate is available and has been here for 2 years or more i forgot how long

 

[Joe]

jow you do realise that nescafe have had self heating coffee for a good 4 years now

this uses a different mechanism and this was to describe the workings hence the title EXPOSED ... apparently this system is better and heats the sludge better ... the system was in development for 10 years and cost $24 Mil to make ...

this system = new

the nescafe system (ive had it from a petrol station once) aint that good (IMO) in taste and temperature

edit BTW davo nice new sig love wat u did to the keyb

 

[bloodthirst]

jow you do realise that nescafe have had self heating coffee for a good 4 years now

haha thats the first ive ever heard of it

 

[Joe]

haha thats the first ive ever heard of it

only place ive seen it was @ petrol stations.. doest work wel tho .. apaprently this new system does

 

[bloodthirst]

only place ive seen it was @ petrol stations.. doest work wel tho .. apaprently this new system does

yeah i see i'll be definantly looking out for it