New Ways to Waste Resources- The Self Cooling Beer Can
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 04.22.06
Designed for camping and fishing, we can just imagine pulling one of these out of our backpack- a self-cooling beer can. Now you can waste much more aluminum with each toss out the car window. As a further contradiction, they are filling it with Miller Lite. "Tempra's I.C. Can works by drawing heat out of the beverage with a natural desiccant (drying agent), through a water gel coated evaporator, and into an insulated heat-sink container, once an internal vacuum-seal has been broken." (click on picture to enlarge) We can't wait. ::New Tech Spy via ::Engadget
This will have a place of honour in our hamper of horrors along side Wolfgang Puck's Instant Hot Latte.
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