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Have you ever made a cup of coffee, gone back to your desk, started doing something, taken a sip of coffee and Hruuurrkk!!, it's stone cold and turned to swill? The something that took your attention away held it for 20 mins while your coffee congealed?
The electric coffee mug is a convenient,
stylish device in brushed stainless (remember the De Lorean?) designed to run on 110/240V to keep your coffee at drinking temperature all day. The grinder in the lid grinds the beans, you add water and it brews the coffee and then switches to keep it at your ideal temperature until you've finished drinking it.
In addition, the base of the mug contains a tiny oven where it will bake a single cookie (premixed, longlife single serve cookie dough available from UnaBubba's Gourmet Kitchen by mail order, just $5.00 / dozen, 27 flavours to choose from) in 15 minutes.
OK, put the oven in with the base of the unit, or better yet four seperate modules: Coffee, Oven, Microwave, Refrigerator, each plugged onto a turntable in the same manner as a cordless kettle. Any unit fits on any one of the plugpoints. When bored you could use the oven to enact the final solution to the clutter in the top drawer of your desk.
The office smells like a sidewalk cafe all day!
Teasmade
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I have one of these on my desk at work. No, not really, but it would be a nice idea. [hippo, Aug 29 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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I'm so addicted I'd drink the cold swill anyway. Jussssst givvvve me cafffeinnnne dammit! |
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Only if you are driving along a railway line, wearing a white fright wig, and your sidekick is riding alongside you on a hoverboard. |
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The addition of the mini-oven elevates this idea to genius level. Can it also have a mini-fridge to store milk? |
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There are no plans at this stage to incorporate a refrigerator in this product. If market research bears out a need for such an innovation then we'll consider it. |
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I don't think I like the idea of having to lift an oven when I drink my hot beverage. Perhaps a small, neat coffee machine would be in order, perhaps of very similar diamiter, having the required elements above and below a gap for a special, sleek, lightweight, brushed-steel mug. Perhaps it could also support cocoa. |
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Of course it would run on rechargable batteries like a walkman, and the mug would clip and seal in for use, for example, in a car. |
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It's the cookie oven that got my vote. |
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Make the oven and fridge removeable/modular? |
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OK, idea altered to incorporate fridge, etc. |
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I may not work in a an office ( infact I may not work owing to the fact that I'm still at school ) but I would definitely get one for my lunch breaks. Congratualtions you get an extra vote |
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I'd need one for the office & one for home. |
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I think I'm going to take this one out of the realm of halfbaked and make it a reality if I can. |
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....and shoehorn it into another already crammed week - quote |
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Still haven't got there, [po]. Maybe someday? I'm about to set up another business in the inner city. |
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