A portable freezer would be a wonderful thing for camping trips and days at the beach. Or would it? This portable freezer, designed by Ruben Iglesias, is a concept design for a product nobody needs. Except for ice-cream, we freeze food for long-term storage. So a battery powered freezer, even if it could actually get cold enough to hold food below zero, is pointless, unless the batteries last for weeks at a time.
But let’s say that Ruben’s design was actually a useful contraption. Here’s how it works: It is powered by a pair of batteries that also house LED lamps (for reasons unknown). “The lamps produce the energy for the freezer to work and they send it by magnetic induction.”
Really? What’s wrong with a wire, or a metal contact? After all, there must already be tubes running through the box to carry the refrigerant, right? That should leave mean you could easily route a cable. But no, this is little more than a cooler with a pair of lights in the lid. Where, for example, is the compressor?
We’re all for concept designs, but only if they have a root in reality. Whipping up a nice CAD illustration and saying it is an “Ecofreezer” doesn’t cut it. It’s like drawing a couple of circles and a square and saying I have made a car.
Still, as a beer cooler it certainly looks nice. And those LED lamps would be great for all-night beach parties.
Ecofreezer [Rubcn via Yanko]
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