Self-Heating Can

nickprecision writes "Ontro has been working for a while, and they are about ready to get to the public market. Quite a nifty little self-heating can... imagine the uses. Read up so you know about it when your friends pull one out on the ski hill."

Taxi Driver

[hitchhacker]

How about some prior art from "Taxi Driver":

Cab Dispatcher: Can you drive to the Bronx? Manhattan?
DeNiro: Anytime. Anywhere.

Cab Dispatcher: Do you work on Jewish holidays?
DeNiro: Anytime. Anywhere.

Cab dispatcher: How's your driving record? Clean?
DeNiro: Clean. Just like my conscience.


-metric -- you talkin to me?

This is a great idea

[The_Fire_Horse]

I hate going for a crap on a cold winters morning and freezing my arse off.
A self heating can would be really nice - great big thanks to all those boffins!!

Selfwarming toilets?

[professortomoe]

Since thses cups are already out everywhere else, why don't they warm the toilet seat for those cold winter days. Or just ignore me :P

I can see the Fun now.

[lord_ashaman]

People walking around in supermarkets pressing the button, laughing maniacally, then walking off to find another can.

Re:they trademarked two words. nice.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yellow pages, under escort agencies..
hardly original.

Re:Let me get this straight...

[plastik55]

The huge flaw in their design is that it contains Calcium Oxide. AKA Lime. AKA Quicklime. AKA a substance used in manufacturing steel and paper, in glassmaking, in waste treatment, in insecticides, and as an industrial alkali

Oh no! It's a chemical with various uses! It must be bad for you!

You forgot to mention that it's a substance that has been integral to American cuisine for just about ever.

Corn is steeped in lime, AKA quicklime, AKA Calcium Oxide, to form hominy (if you're in the South,) or posole (if you're in the Southwest.) It It is dried and ground to make masa, which is used to make corn tortillas (ordinary cornmeal won't work), and tamales. Treatment of corn with lime or other alkali unlocks essential nutrients such as niacin which our bodies cannot obtain from untreated corn.

Sheesh. Next I'll be hearing people panic about the pollution of the oceans with Sodium Chloride and Dihydrogen Monoxide.