'Reverse microwave' can chill wine bottles and fizzy drink cans in 45 seconds - Polidicks

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVChmfcv2k#t=113[/media] [quote] The invention of the microwave revolutionised cooking but now a 'reverse-microwave' does the opposite, it can chill a drink in 45 seconds. Up until now there has not been a gadget available to cool items without a long wait. A new system can cool drinks, including wine bottles and fizzy drink cans, from room temperature to four degrees in a matter of seconds. The unit can cool drinks in all types of containers to different temperatures without disturbing the carbonation. The technology, which has been developed with the help of research funding from the EU, works on the basis of a cooling vortex which spins the drink round. It uses a stop start rotational sequence to create what is known as a Rankine vortex- which is a collapsed vortex in a viscous fluid. This enables the drinks to mix without fizzing. The beverage is rotated at speed around twin axes in water to keep it in its original state while quickly bringing down its temperature.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10404692/Reverse-microwave-can-chill-wine-bottles-and-fizzy-drink-cans-in-45-seconds.html[/url] Now I can finally chill the body parts that's been laying around the house!

[video=youtube;TZ_LZRA7GXI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_LZRA7GXI[/video]

V-Tex just kicked in, yo. I'm not understanding this. Is there also a cooling element that touches the can, and the vortex simply allows all of it to be cooled faster? Or is the vortex action itself doing the cooling?

That's fucking neat

[quote] V-Tex, which invented the technology, say that the process requires more than 80 per cent less energy than many standard drinks chillers.[/quote] That's amazing. Looking at how complex it is, though, I assume it will need regular (expensive) maintenance for the untrained user. It just seems like an unnecessary toy for impatient rich people, though.

One step closer to the freeze ray.

Buy now for only $3,999

[QUOTE=thirty9th;42652747]V-Tex just kicked in, yo. I'm not understanding this. Is there also a cooling element that touches the can, and the vortex simply allows all of it to be cooled faster? Or is the vortex action itself doing the cooling?[/QUOTE] The vortex just distracts you while it replaces your drink with an already cold one.

That is so cool

anyone got any shades because our future is so [b]bright[/b]

[QUOTE=slbobo;42652767]The vortex just distracts you while it replaces your drink with an already cold one.[/QUOTE] "Haha! Look at the mini-tornado in my orange juice! That was really fa-" -sip- "Why am I now drinking Dom Perignon"

This tech sounds really useful, but the true question is the cost of the mechanism.

[QUOTE=ironman17;42652808]This tech sounds really useful, but the true question is the cost of the mechanism.[/QUOTE] I bet it probably costs a cool million.

judging by the way it works (using vibrating chilled water) is this not the same thing we already have in grocery stores in the wine department?

I was hoping for a magic energy beam that somehow reduced temperature. That'd be way more useful.

It probably only cools the surface and leaves the middle warm.

[QUOTE=Death_God;42652783]anyone got any shades because our future is so [b]bright[/b][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY[/media] I'll take any chance to post this song

[QUOTE=thirty9th;42652747]V-Tex just kicked in, yo. I'm not understanding this. Is there also a cooling element that touches the can, and the vortex simply allows all of it to be cooled faster? Or is the vortex action itself doing the cooling?[/QUOTE] I think that it submerges the drinks in super chilled saline water that's spinning one way (like you likely currently may see in grocery stores) whilst also spinning the can or bottle in the opposite direction to increase the effect of convection on it. They managed to find a way to make the spinning not cause fizzy drinks to fizz up.

Did the machine in the end have an option to chill your pets??

So if it's a reverse microwave, does that make it a Macrowave?

Don't wine chillers at liquor stores already do this?

That's pretty cool [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH-Ywpz1_I[/media] Bring on the puns.

i was expecting a consumer product tbh

it has a pet option wtf cool your dog

[QUOTE=Vasili;42653104]it has a pet option wtf cool your dog[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://facepunch.com/image.php?u=132551&dateline=1351880408[/IMG]

how is this news, we've had technology like this for a while.

[QUOTE=Vasili;42653104]it has a pet option wtf cool your dog[/QUOTE] Its for cool cats only

[QUOTE=Vasili;42653104]it has a pet option wtf cool your dog[/QUOTE] It's not like they could add a kid option. It would make them too cool for school.

My childhood dreams finally coming true

Didn't the mythbusters make something with a bunch of magnetrons that actually made their chamber cooler?..