How to gracefully heat a cup of cold coffee

A lazy afternoon needs coffee to cheer me up. But sometimes I am so busy that the freshly brewed coffee gets cold on the side. It's a pity to pour it out. I want to heat it in the microwave and worry about overflowing after boiling.

MIITO can help you gracefully heat the cold coffee on your desk. It consists of a plugged-in base and a heating rod with a disc at the bottom. In the standby state, as long as you put the cup on the base and put the heating rod into the cup, the heating will start automatically. When the liquid boils, the MIITO automatically stops heating, and you can remove the heating rod at any time.

Its principle is very similar to wireless charging: electromagnetic resonance. There is a 45mm disc at the bottom of the heating rod, which can accept the energy transferred from the base and transfer the heat to the surrounding liquid through the stainless steel heating rod.

Therefore, MIITO can heat any liquid in most containers. In addition to coffee, tea, chocolate and other drinks, but also hot rice noodles, cereal, soup and other liquid food. You can also directly use it to "boil water as needed" in a heat-resistant container and boil as much as you can, which is more power-saving than an electric kettle, safer than heating faster, and more convenient than a microwave oven. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a subversion of the existing heating products on the market.

MIITO is suitable for any non-iron container. The heating time is related to the thickness of the bottom of the container, the material, and the amount of liquid. It takes only 1 minute to heat the liquid in a 200 ml glass and 2.5 minutes to heat the 500 ml liquid in a porcelain pot.

MITTO's idea comes from the graduation project of Nils Chudy and Jasmina Grase in the School of Design. It was inspired by a TED speech from sustainability strategist Leyla Acaroglu: we always boil more water than we need, and all-British electric kettles have enough extra calories to keep all the streetlights on all over the country for one night. Chudy and Grase think there should be more energy-efficient ways to boil water.

After graduation, they continued to improve the product prototype and eventually co-founded MIITO. In early 2015, Chudy and Grase opened a company in Berlin and recruited engineers to build a usable product prototype (working prototype) step by step. Their product designs are also on display at the London Design Museum (London Design Museum).

Like many products based on conceptual design, MITTO crowdfunding on Kickstarter to support further improvement and actual production. On Kickstarter, it was a miraculous success: it launched on May 12 and achieved its crowdfunding target of 150000 euros within 38 hours. As of press time, 2391 supporters have raised more than 270,000 euros, and all early bird products have been sold.

Want to know how MITTO is made? The two designers recorded the whole process of the product from concept to prototype on Tumblr, and interested readers can come and watch.

The inscription and the accompanying pictures are from Kickstarter.