I remember reading in a physics book 5 years ago that soda companies had developed a self-cooling can, using the same principles as this. When the pop top was opened, liquid CO2 was released from a previously sealed capsule, and in the process of evaporating, would cool the contents of the can to close to freezing. Obviously, this idea never made it to the market (as far as I know)
So, when I saw a commercial touting the coffee technology as "revolutionary" I was somewhat surprised--not only is the chemistry behind it unoriginal, but some other company already had the same idea years ago...
It worked fine for laying out the paper, it just garbled it when transmitting to the printers. My question is, if they realized at press time that the electronic transmission wasn't working, why didn't they just use a disk?
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I remember reading in a physics book 5 years ago that soda companies had developed a self-cooling can, using the same principles as this. When the pop top was opened, liquid CO2 was released from a previously sealed capsule, and in the process of evaporating, would cool the contents of the can to close to freezing. Obviously, this idea never made it to the market (as far as I know)
So, when I saw a commercial touting the coffee technology as "revolutionary" I was somewhat surprised--not only is the chemistry behind it unoriginal, but some other company already had the same idea years ago...
It worked fine for laying out the paper, it just garbled it when transmitting to the printers. My question is, if they realized at press time that the electronic transmission wasn't working, why didn't they just use a disk?