From USATODAY.com (thanks Jonathan):
Single-serving coffee can heats itself. I bet the coffee sucks, but the technology is certainly cool (ha!). The right way to do this is to have the heating element boil water (current tech doesn’t get hot enough) and brew the coffee right in the can (extra points if you can steam the milk in a separate chamber too). That way you get nice fresh, hot coffee with a flip of the pull tab and no baristitude (just made that word up). Of course, Lisa thought of this about 5 years ago and I told her it was a silly idea, proving once again that I should listen to my wife more.
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