# USB Fridge.......could do with this at work! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216 "2009-06-27T23:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/1 "2009-06-27T23:56:40Z")
nice cold bear or drink, will probably make my laptop go slow though! [http://www.pyroradio.com/index.cfm/act/news\_details/id/352](http://www.pyroradio.com/index.cfm/act/news_details/id/352) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/2 "2009-06-28T00:06:17Z")
'twould have to be a pretty small bear. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/3 "2009-06-28T00:10:12Z")
And if he’s sunning himself and you chill him, it might become angry. ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/4 "2009-06-28T01:17:54Z")
lol \*beer, my bad! cant spell ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/5 "2009-06-28T01:21:24Z")
Hey, I fell into the same trap (‘Write a word that rhymes with “near”.’) when I was trying to be a smart aleck in second grade. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/6 "2009-06-28T19:03:23Z")
lol ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/7 "2009-06-28T19:56:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > And if he’s sunning himself and you chill him, it might become angry. I guess he’d have to be one of those Coca-Cola Polar Bears. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/8 "2009-06-28T20:03:11Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I guess he’d have to be one of those Coca-Cola Polar Bears. You mean one of those polar bears, which are from the the Northern hemisphere, that for some reason hangs out with penguins, which are from the Southern? ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/9 "2009-06-29T00:19:03Z")
[http://legalplanet.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/polar-bear.jpg](http://legalplanet.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/polar-bear.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/10 "2009-06-29T00:20:32Z")
[http://legalplanet.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/polar-bear.jpg](http://legalplanet.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/polar-bear.jpg) cold bear ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/11 "2009-06-29T03:33:34Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > You mean one of those polar bears, which are from the the Northern hemisphere, that for some reason hangs out with penguins, which are from the Southern? Don’t you even try to tell me that the TV lied to me. if it’s on TV, it’s true! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/12 "2009-06-29T03:39:09Z")
Jack Torrance: See, it’s OK. He saw it on the television. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/13 "2009-06-29T09:26:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Jack Torrance: See, it’s OK. He saw it on the television. Ha! One of my favorite movie quotes! What’s next, anyway? A USB Fireplace? ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/14 "2009-06-29T11:49:26Z")
for real, people are going usb gadget crazy, iv seen a usb fan, microwave, fish tank, toy missile launcher ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/15 "2009-06-29T16:34:04Z")
I have this one - it won’t make a lukewarm drink cold, but if you need to keep an already cold drink cool it’ll do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/16 "2009-06-29T17:52:12Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > I have this one - it won’t make a lukewarm drink cold, but if you need to keep an already cold drink cool it’ll do the trick. So it’s a thermos? Like a thing you do not have to plug in? ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/17 "2009-06-29T18:34:03Z")
Now if you can just refrigerate the processors… On the link…what’s the deal with the PSA on knives? Is it really that prevalent? ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/18 "2009-06-29T20:05:40Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > I have this one - it won’t make a lukewarm drink cold, but if you need to keep an already cold drink cool it’ll do the trick. thought it was too good to be true ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/19 "2009-06-30T17:51:27Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > So it’s a thermos? Like a thing you do not have to plug in? No, it has a plate in the bottom and you set your drink on it, but it doesn’t generate enough coolness to make the drink cold, maybe if you left it there overnight it would. But it works well enough to keep already cold stuff from getting warm. ---
**Author:** ![char2009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@char2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/char2009)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usb-fridge-could-do-with-this-at-work/501216/20 "2009-06-30T22:39:38Z")
thats a let down