Mini USB Fridge will chill your favourite can so you can stay at your desk longer
Product Details:
Brand: Universal
Colour: Blue
Quantity: 1
Dimensions(WDH): 9 X 9 X 19.5 Cm
Weight: 0.4
Features:
Plug into your computer to keep your can cold
Powered by USB
Compatible with all computer platforms
Suitable for standard sizes cans only
Chills to 8-10 degrees celcius
The red one is OOS, but the blue one is still showing in stock for me.
maybe postcode dependant
in stock for me too
searched Store Availability and shows it is in stock in my local store
They have plenty of these at Big W for $10. It looked like the usual price to me.
I've seen it at Kmart too for $10
I saw it at Big W yesterday for $14.95, (glad I passed)
Only holds 1 standard softdrink can sized item..
"Only holds 1 standard softdrink can sized item.." Maybe you want a real mini bar :P
Edit or buy a few and daisy chain them off a 7+ port powered usb hub :)
Nope. Just informing of its capacity.
But if you can find a mini bar at this price, Post the deal.
I'll keep a look out for one at 'that' price :)
Sorry, I saw them in Kmart, not BigW.
Saw them at officeworks Keswick, SA store yesterday.
Hmmm, could this be retrofitted as a PC cooling rig?
eg. open the door and shove it inside your PC
… or alternatively, put an overclocked Raspberry Pi inside
(pity you couldn't stick an 'Intel inside' sticker on the fridge)
lol do you know even how a fridge works. Besides it will create humidity. Only expensive fridges have frost free cycles.
How fridges work is a carefully guarded secret, known by only two men in the world. It has been done this way ever since the refrigerators invention, by Gloria Stuart in 1912. Gloria is also known as the old women from Titanic who threw a baby over the side of a boat, and chucked as it vanished into the depths of the sea. She kept the information secret because she was deathly afraid that if it got out, people would it to create giant fridges that cooled everything in sight. Before long the oceans would be full of icebergs, which happen to be Gloria's only weakness.
This probably contains a peltier device, in the area of 2.5w. Expect to keep asking yourself "Is this thing working? It feels a little colder, but not really. its not working. Is it working? I think it feels colder"
And i was wondering who was the second person guarding the secret, until i read your last sentence.
It's a peltier; they're used to cool PCs all the time.
k-mart stocks red for $10, I have one sitting here with me….
and everyone knows red makes it go faster!!!
lol do these things actual work..
USB Fridge (Blue) at Officeworks
I had no idea that USB's needed to be stored in a fridge.
Do they go off if you don't ?
Actually this one needs to be stored in a blue fridge.
Got one recently. It is the most useless thing ever. Luckily I did not pay for it.
I concur
my colleague tried for hours the up and go pack only a bit "cool"
It says it is ONLY designed for standard drink cans. The cooling element on the bottom sufficiently cools a can of drink in my office so that I don't have to go to the fridge as often. It does what you'd expect it to do at this price.
Conclusion: Office cooling is actually cooling your can.
My office has no cooling system and my desk is near a window.
is a USB port providing enough power to operate a fridge? I had a USB vacuum cleaner and it had 0 suction at all.
I don't think USB vacuum cleaner has 0 suction. It does sucks!
Looks like a Port-a-loo
one of the TARDIS's many disguises ;)
RE-TARDIS?
TARD-ARSE
These would take a long time to decrease the temp of a can, it would be probably okay to keep one cold from a normal fridge.
They are just thermoelectric, so a massive heatsink with a fan, no actual "compressor" like an actual fridge.
These should not be called fridges as it is misleading.
"These would take a long time to decrease the temp of a can, it would be probably okay to keep one cold from a normal fridge."
Agreed. I always put cold cans in it and it keeps them cold. I wouldn't expect it to actually cool a room temperature can and if you would then the problem isn't with this mini fridge. ;)
Is that what you do?
Stay immobile at your desk longer, while drinking a can that contains 14 spoons of sugar. Fat f-cks represent!
Useless gimmick product
If you are here actually thinking this will "chill" your naivety surpasses my understanding…
It's a small heatsink with a fan.
Don't buy.
such products trick naive consumers to wasting their money and contribute to landfill and waste our planet's resources. they should be banned.
They also contribute to science! While the government may no longer care for science, the rest of us should. I'll wager a warm can of coke that you could reverse the circuitry of this thing and power a Raspberry Pi using a block of ice.
If you put a cold drink in it, it may keep it cool for certain time depending on the surrounding temperature. Don't expect it will make the drink cooler. In another word, it is pretty useless.
from reviews, these kind of things are ok ish for KEEPING your drink cool, but it will not cool a room temp can to say 4 degrees.
IMO buying a really small esky/esky bag will do the same job
might be more useful to buy 5 usb fans and point at your can of drink.
This is just a junk toy. I got this under my office desk. 100x better than a small heat sink and usb fan.
Great. Now I want that. Where did you get it from?
I just bought one not expecting much out of it but surprisingly it does actually get pretty cold. It looks like it is just a heatsink and a fan and the enclosure has no insulation but the heatsink part is quite cold to the touch. I think if these had some insulation in them they might work pretty well.I am tempted to try lining mine with a thin sandwich of aluminium foil and foam.
I am tempted to try lining mine with a thin sandwich of aluminium foil and foam.
Thinly sliced bread with Vegemite would probably do the trick.
OOS !