I got one of these, plug into wall, turn on, forget to turn off an 
wonder why stuff you dropped on your desk is melting, coffee cup 
warmers. Actually, I bought several one day a while back and have one 
next to my bed too. And I started to wonder, "Do they make resonance 
based mugs and warmers?" Apparently, the answer to this is "no". But 
seriously, it seems to me to be so damn simple a concept that its just 
stupid they don't have them. You plug in something half as thick as the 
one I am using, leave it turned on all the time, since it doesn't 
generate heat of its own, and you have the coffee mug itself contain the 
resonance coil, just like the special pans they make now for the same 
sort of stove tops, so that when you place the damn thing on the pad, it 
heats your coffee. Heck, you could even be real creative and make the 
coil and pad resonate at a frequency that would let it recharge your 
iPod at a distance, or something, like they have been talking about 
recently.

Sure, if I want to fry a blasted egg on some massively expensive stove, 
where I can't burn myself on the stove top, great, but why the frack 
can't I use the same thing to keep the contents of my tea/coffee cup hot 
enough to drink, especially since the one I use sucks at it? I would 
think this was an unbelievably obvious idea.

Mind you, one reason I can think of is that a *single* company currently 
holds all patents on it, and they just haven't bothered with something 
so simple, going for large businesses, home kitchens, etc. instead. And 
of course, this means that, at the moment, its probably not even 
possible to design a similar product using the technology. :(

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If you ever take one apart you'll see that the heating coil
is a simple strip of Nichrome, like in a toaster, and that
the heating "surface" is just plastic, hopefully heat resistant.
The whole thing probably is made for less than $1...

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Patrick Elliott wrote:
> I got one of these, plug into wall, turn on, forget to turn off an 
> wonder why stuff you dropped on your desk is melting, 

That's why I only buy heating devices that turn themselves off any more :-)


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And lo on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:27:11 -0000, Patrick Elliott  
<sel### [at] rraznet> did spake, saying:

> "Do they make resonance
> based mugs and warmers?" Apparently, the answer to this is "no". But
> seriously, it seems to me to be so damn simple a concept that its just
> stupid they don't have them.

The only problem I can think of is that you need to be using a special  
mug, you couldn't use your "World's Best Boss" or one of Andy's Fractal  
Mugs unless these people started to produce them 'resonance-aware'. If it  
comes to a choice between buying a heater that works with any mug or one  
that works ony with specific ones, people are more likely to go with the  
general option.

Then again you could just sell it to people like us :-)

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