You must get one of these.

Dave

Fantastic :D

Is it a surprise that they're out of stock?

That is wicked :D

Darren

Also this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml

Not sure if it would be acceptable to use in the office or not though...

John that is superb :D

Darren

Wicked :cool:

USB Kettle anyone?

Chris if you find one let me know :D

I can't find one :(

Darren

well, drawing 500mA at 12V gives us 6W to play with. I think that's the limit of current draw through the USB spec.

A small cup of water to be heated is what, 250ml, weighing 250g?

Specific heat capacity of water is approximately 4200J/kg K.

You need to have water at around 80 degrees C to get the flavour out of tea. Assuming room temp is 20 degrees, you need to raise it by 60 degrees, so you need 60 * 250 * 4.2 = 63000J of energy.

So, just under 3 hours later you'd have water hot enough to make a small cup of tea, assuming your insulation was perfect and you suffered no loss of heat through evaporation etc. Best make it 3 and a half hours then, just to be sure ;)

Cheers,
Nick.

Flippin' boffins and their clever calculations :rolleyes: :D

One for the ladies :D

:eek:Thats why machines now come with at least 8 USB ports:eek:

Darren

There's a very strange word in that ThinkGeek URL... Wierd. It must mean something to someone? ;)

Nick,

slow at work today is it? ;)

I wish ;) - it's nuts at the moment but I need a break from the cutting edge of cheque processing on 1980s mainframes otherwise I'd be going insane :D

Try ordering the i-grill ;)

LOL :D

How about this for cool:

http://www.overclockersclub.com/news...rticle=7328384

Simon.

Is it detected by the operating system as a Joystick!? :D

LOL at Daz, try flying a plane with that. Brings a whole new meaning to force feedback :D :D

Darren

Chiark - for the kettle I think you'd need firewire ...