My third and final observation:

I don't want to be the dude the day after the party trying to get these f'n things out of the nasty cig-and-backwash-filled bottles lying all over my apartment.

i_prefer_yeti

On a personal side note,

I will guarantee you that the first time I use this I will accidently throw the chilling device away with the bottle.

i_prefer_yeti

Ways to not make money

1) announce product

2) apply for patent

3) realize you f'd up the order of steps 1 & 2

i_prefer_yeti

Super cold is needed for all beers in my book.

losermike

Huski - Your not drinking swill, your drinking cold swill.

Mayor McRib

@weatherman: He'll sell millions to NASCAR fans.

SwatLax

How you can you put an idea into the public domain and then after its in the public domain patent it?

prodigal_son

ok correct me if im wrong here but, if you put this into your beer bottle, it will make it foam up and overflow very quickly. just like putting a bunch of cubes into a glass of soda. it foams up. only this is in a bottle, and much much colder than ice.

babaki

Son of a bitch.

This kid is gonna make a fortune.

Useful situations:
1. Sneaking a beer in somewhere its not supposed to be, and therefore, its obvious you can't have it chilled.
2. Driving.

luckypictures

My brothers at Omega house are totally going to go for this.

Jsembower

@qbrad: compressed CO2 is liquid.

@ryan7107: drink your warm English beer if you like, I like mine frosty.

I think this is a pretty clever idea. Whether it has a market is another matter, but I guess I can see this being kinda useful on camping trips (not real camping, of course) when your ice runs out after the first day and you've got some luke-warm beers laying about. Or for parties to have as a backup when the all the stuff in the fridge is gone.

weatherman

Just like any Saturday? I start my drinking on Thursday.

omg-ponies

Looking like Andy Dick must be why he has a black eye.

As cool as the idea is, and I certainly give him kudos for design and implementation, ice is a hell of a lot cheaper. That, and if you lose your ice, your not out $50. I see this more for Snooty McMoneybags, who just wants to show off for his deck shoe wearing buddies.

zenpoet

I think it's talking about the fact that's compressed into a liquid from a gas for storage/transportation. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Hickeroar

Supercooled is not ideal for most beers.

ryan7107

Didn't know CO2 came in a liquid form. Mine always sublimates from solid to gas.

qbrad

@luckypictures: haha nice

The Chad

@babaki: My understanding is that it is the surface texture of the ice that causes the foam, not the temperature. Tiny pock-marks on the surface provide ideal locations for bubbles to form and grow. Sand, pennies, and Mentos also cause foamy drinks to erupt even at room temperature. So if this kid gets the surface material right, I don't think foam would be too much of a problem.

Pender

BTW the correction definition of super cooled is to cool something below freezing point without freezing it, it requires you to alter the pressure, this beer isnt supercooled, do you see a giant vacuum anywhere?

tin

That kid totally stole this straight from a MythBusters episode! [en.wikipedia.org]

In the episode, among other methods to rapidly chill beer, Jamie tested a method by which he super cooled an aluminum rod in liquid nitrogen, then dropped the rod into a room-temperature pint of beer! It resulted in an eruption of beer foam!

LastVigilante

@omg-ponies:

I start it on Monday :)

alexz

oh, and if u can swallow one of these, you should work in porn

Vizi

It's not like i always have room for a twelve pack in my fridge...i can buy my beer warm and just store it in the cupboard

Vizi

This guy is going to get sued after someone swallows one of these and gets sick/dies. Too much thought was put into this. Simplicity is always the best way to go.

Jonathan21

Pff. I can cool a 6 pack (let alone a single bottle) in 6 min. Just hand me a canister of fire extinguisher.

ripfire4

I think it's more for home use. If you buy some beer, and feel like one right when ya get one, just drop this thing in and chill it down. It's clearly not meant to bring out to a party where you're going to drink 9 beers and forget which beer is yours. It's definitely designed for home use, and although not as cheap as ice, it's a hell of a lot more convenient for some people.

Cool idea.

farseen

You know what also works, buy one of those keyboard cleaner spray cans of air (by the case for roughly $1 a pop), turn it upside down, and spray your entire bottle with it... INSTANT COOL! Cheap, easy and effective...

DucatiGuy

Yeah, so what if you set it off in your hand? Instant Frostbite, loss of feeling, etc?

cayton

@Vizi:
thats why you have to start drinking in the ride home. or at least, thats what you should tell the arresting officer.

nutbastard

Are you kidding? Stick my tongue to that stupid pole? That's dumb!

That's 'cause you know it'll stick!

You're full of it!

Oh yeah?

Yeah!

Well I double-DOG-dare ya!

NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare ya"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.

I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!

Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!

nutbastard

Brilliant!

mjmahon

@i_prefer_yeti: Although this guy is in New Zealand, where the patent system is "First to File", he can still apply in the US based upon the "First to Invent" approach we take to patents. As the US is probably the largest market for this device he should have no trouble making money.

viaggiatore

@prodigal_son: The US is not a race to the patent office/first to file system. It is first to invent. The US is different than most of the rest of the world I believe. Google it.

dangj307

@ Yeti and Prodigal,
I'm not attorney, but I believe he's fine. I think you must file for your patent within 1 yr of realizing revenue from your product, lest you gift your idea to the public realm (a la visacalc).

Someone else can certainly patent the idea in the meantime, but if you can show that you came up with it first (which given his press, he wouldn't have trouble doing), then you'll have a strong argument that you are the rightful owner of the IP.

A second-rate idea thief may wish to try to bring his idea to market before him, but if the inventor makes a valid claim that the IP is his, then he'll get the hack's profit AND the IP protection.

I don't think these rules are exactly right, and I am sure they vary depending on the situation, but they're representative of how it works.

geoffreydgraham

I can already see the pressurized dry-ice stuck on some drunk's fingers ahah!

Digital Freak

I feel sorry for the guy who mistakes this for a rectal thermometer.

Benjammin

I have run into the warm-beer problem more than a few times, and while my solution uses ice, it functions very well. I put the 6-pack in the 6-pack sized cooler, cram as much ice as I can in there, grab a handful of salt and spread it around on the ice, fill up cooler as far as cleanliness and spillage allows with water. Wait 10 minutes. Beer is cold enough to drink. Second beer is perfect and the rest can be transferred to fridge, or the whole cooler/bucket can be taken outside to the sunshiny patio for further malt beverage enjoyment. Cost? 10 cents ice-making electricity, 5 cents for the salt, ten minutes of being a little thirsty.

ninjagin

Or, you could get a bag of ice, a container of salt, and a styrofoam cooler, add a little water, and wait 5 minutes.

HeartBurnKid

I'd buy one in a heartbeat at $50 (assuming the per drink cost is still $0.07 and the CO2 cannister does not deplete without an intentional depression).

Vagabum

Andy Dick is unfair. He looks like Leif Garrett crossed with Boris Becker.

djfred

@ninjagin: that method was featured on mythbusters as the fastest way to cool your beer with common household items. i believe they went with beer, ice, water and salt in that order though.

Paradise

the offspring of mark hamill and andy dick more like it

uli

@babaki: It looks like metal to me... put a knife or spoon handle down the neck of a warm beer - nothing happens except liquid displacement. I'd imagine this'd be the same.

Unless you precision dropped it from a metre up and agitated the beer. That'd be another story.

@ryan7107: I totally agree. Only light / mid strength or very wheaty beers should be ice cold. Or trash beer (Bud, Miller). Most beers should be just a few degrees celcius below room temperature.

spinner

I would argue that this is even less expensive than ice/water/salt.

It has a NZ$50 target price and is approx NZ$0.07 per bottle.

And it takes seconds, not minutes, who has time to wait for cold beer?

BensAngel

Bah. Only crappy beer needs to be superchilled. 'Cool' is fine for anything with taste.

cbdsteve

@Vizi: My fridge only has room for beer
@DucatiGuy: good idea

dontforget

@Barry99705: Ahh, okay, under a lot of pressure, it will stay liquid.

Barry99705

I thought CO2 didn't have a liquid state? It goes from solid to gas with no liquid state in between.

Barry99705

i thought about it kong time ago. i mentioned this exact idea to some friend of mine on msn messenger, on 18/12/o6. i got it logged.

Achiron

and it doesnt help me at all.

Achiron