USB port: Turn laptop into ... kitchen

With just a USB port, your laptop can turn into a kitchen, serving you from: making coffee, cooking noodles, eating hot pot or drinking 1 cup of cool fruit smoothies .

1. Cook hotpot

Fundue is a water boiling device, with features including an LCD display with temperature, LED lights that simulate 'fire' stove and power from USB port.

Currently USB 2.0 standard limits energy consumption so the Fundue device is recommended to use only to melt butter and chocolate. However, when the newer USB standard is introduced, allowing for more energy consumption, the hotpot device Fundue will work as well as cooking hot pot or frying fish! This device costs about 30 USD.

2. Warm up coffee

The coffee heating device is the solution for office workers who are always under pressure from the computer. This device supports many different types of cups like porcelain, glass, metal. The maximum warming temperature is about 55 degrees Celsius, energy consumption is between 2.5 and 5W, costing about 15 USD.

3. Refrigerator

The device is recognized as the world's smallest 'refrigerator' with a weight of 365 grams, using 5V power supply directly from the USB port. The refrigerator produces a cool temperature of 8 degrees C after 5 minutes when plugged into the computer. Every time a chilled refrigerator gets a can of water, there is an LED light on the refrigerator.

Similarly, the refrigerator is a refrigeration device for many drinks because the holder allows you to place plastic cups, glass bottles or even cans of fresh water inside. The cold storage device reached a temperature of nearly 8 degrees Celsius, the energy consumption of about 5.75W was enough to cool many kinds of drinks such as tea, milk, wine, beer, cost about 30 USD.

4. Cooking from afar

The iGrill device is a cooking solution via the Internet in just minutes. To get started, connect the device to a computer that has internet via USB and go to the website to select the dish to be processed. You can download recipes from the website and put in all the data like what food to cook, how to cook, how much the temperature. Then wait a few minutes to get results.

If cooking from afar, via the website, of course, the 'owner' must give food to the dish to be done on the device, until it needs cooking to order at his disposal from a distance, costing about 100 USD.

5. Both a kitchen and a refrigerator

This is a 2-in-1 device that can heat a cup of coffee or keep drinks cold. The case is made of plastic, in the middle there is a piece of thermal steel and has an integrated fan inside. With the warming mode, within 10 minutes the device increased to 13 degrees, while in cold mode, within 10 minutes decreased by 7 degrees.

This device does not require power supply to operate but uses the power of the USB connection interface. The device is compatible with USB 2.0 standard and backwards compatible with both USB 1.1 standard. Price about 24 USD.