Someone decided to be clever and actually put technology to good use (as opposed to pouring endless amounts of money into developing bigger and bigger TVs), having developed a refrigerator of sorts that doesn’t require any electricity to operate. A team at Stanford, funded by a VC dude by the name of Adam Grosser, came up with a device that essentially works like a big hand warmer, but in reverse. As the device heats—put it over a fire, maybe—up it triggers some sort of coolant.
Conceivably, you could store medicine and other fragile, life-improving odds and ends in there.
I get the thermos over the fire pic, but what’s up with the rest? Is that a laundry basket? Tent? Huh?
Anyone read Mosquito Coast? The central piece of tech in it is a refrigeration unit that uses fire to produce the cooling.
Consider the uses. Here in Texas and places like Arizona – something like this would be awesome in the summer to cool our cars while sit in the heat and even to cool our houses from the heat on the roof.
Its sad how all these “discoveries” reported on these sites never seem to result in products in the real world.