Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled

Old Man Kensey writes "Apparently those nifty Wolfgang Puck self-heating latte cans, introduced with such fanfare last year, have proven to be buggy -- cans have been reported failing to heat adequately or, more disturbingly, exploding and melting through the packaging. A recall has been announced -- here's hoping the flaws can be 'patched' soon."

Comments

Honestly

[Monkeys!!!]

I've heard of starting the day with a bang but this is rediculous.

Expectations

[cffrost]

From TFA:

OnTech's launch campaign for the self-heating product is "It Does What?"

"It takes time to educate the world to what [self-heating] is about," Weisz said.

It takes time, no doubt in part because the answer is, "it explodes."

Lawsuit Material

[Matilda the Hun]

Now, instead of all the "Contents may be hot" labels, everyone's going to have to start putting "Warning! Contents may detonate" on their coffee cups to avoid lawsuits.

Patching the flaws

[Ithika]

I'm no great Java programmer or anything, but shouldn't the virtual machine prevent serious damage to the rest of the system (hand)?

It could be argued in this case that the software is not at fault, but the hardware. So no amount of adding in extra parentheses will fix the problem. Tis not just a matter of removing the line that says:

if ((date.month).contains('r')) {
igniteCan(SAFE_IGNITION * 50);
} else {
igniteCan(SAFE_IGNITION);
}

It works

[digitaldc]

I've heard of starting the day with a bang but this is rediculous.

Exploding coffee: Guaranteed to wake your ass UP!