September 20, 2007
Cue that “Ascent of Man” theme from the beginning of 2001.
That, my friends, is a soda cooling comfortably atop a CoolIT USB Beverage Chiller. a fun little doodad that plugs into your computer’s USB port and quickly uses a (mildly annoying) fan to cool a metal plate, upon which you rest the beverage of your choice. Lest you think I’m nerdy enough to buy something like this, I will note that while I probably am it was “re-gifted” to me by a friend just before he moved away, perhaps so whenever I sipped a soda during a 3 AM Halo game I’d think of him.
It seems to work, in a limited capacity, because the bottom of my Diet Coke was colder than the rest of it. Unfortunately the same could not be said for my cup of water (not pictured), but maybe styrofoam doesn’t take to the cooling plate quite so well as aluminum. Of course, my data’s all flawed since I bought the Diet Coke cold from a vending machine, but this only means more experimentation and an excuse to drink even more soft drinks! Perhaps I’ll turn it into a Weekly Libation project and cool some beer or vodka, too.
Geekery has never been so delicious. Now if only that fan hummed instead of buzzed…
Technology is so fun. I can’t wait til there’s a USB-powered hotplate to keep my bagel bites warm while I write the next Great American Novel.
-Jim worked out last night!
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August 15, 2007
In the mood for some intense sandwich art? Who isn’t?
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June 19, 2007
I quote the Book of Revelations:
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold: a pizza vending machine.
Yes, that’s right. Some mad Italian scientist saw fit to make a vending machine that sucks in dollars and spits out piping hot, 9″ pizza pies. If you look at the gallery on the site you’ll see two critical facts:
1) The pizzas are cooked by an open heating element, meaning they aren’t just microwaved.
2) The pizzas actually look somewhat appetizing.
They spent 5 million bucks in R&D creating this thing! It spits out a fully cooked pie in about two minutes, with three varieties per machine and a crispness setting controlled by the machine’s operator. Now I can finally get that crisp rising-crust flavor at the Des Moines Greyhound station!
Okay, okay, this is actually really cool, but I have a good reason to panic. When convenience reaches this level, it won’t be long before we’re living in a grim world where robots do all the work and slowly learn to rebel. When that day comes, all we can do is hope Will Smith is still around to save us*.
*Initial title of this post: “AW, HELL NAW”
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June 13, 2007
All the bloggers here at Chew on That love to eat. For example, after a trio of spicy crunch maki on Monday night, I couldn’t turn down two-dollar wings with my beer at the nearby bar. But, we don’t all claim to be master cooks. (Well, maybe Max does when none of the other bloggers are around…I’ve heard things about her risotto) Learning to cook is also about experimentation (and, um, food), and that means things occasionally go terribly but hilariously wrong. I tried to make falafel from scratch once with a mixture that stubbornly refused to remain balled, and ended up with oily muck.
It’s especially fun to hear about these cooking disasters from our fellow food bloggers (some much more seasoned than we).
So, send in your crazy cooking disaster stories for what will be a very amusing blog and article at recipe4living.com. I’ll be sure to give you some nice link-love at both locations.
Mail me at: caleywalsh at gmail dot com
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