Students in Mexico Invent a 'Thermoelectric Spoon' That Heats Up Food on the Go Alasdair Baverstock - FoxNews Tech
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Tania Yolotzin, Andrea Moreno, Maria Caudillo and Cinthia Padilla (FoxNews.com/Alasdair Baverstock)

A team of teenage Mexican students have come up with an invention that is turning quite a few heads: an electronic spoon that heats up your meal one spoonful at a time – or reheats it all at once if you choose to stir it.

They are hoping their innovation can offer an easy solution for hungry consumers on the go.

The PoliCuchara (PolySpoon), designed as part of their freshman year Creative Development course at Mexico City’s National Polytechnic Institute, won first prize at a countrywide innovation fair last week, and has already been patented by the school.

The girls are hoping to bring the PolySpoon to the Mexican market by mid-2017 to retail at $10 apiece. The manufacturing costs are just $3.50 per unit. (FoxNews.com/Alasdair Baverstock)

Equipped with three 9-volt batteries inside the wooden handle, the spoon’s ladle reaches up to 140 F, enough to heat a meal but not enough to burn the user.

The innovative new tool allows a hungry consumer to heat anything from soup, rice, pasta and other bite-sized pieces of food in the time it takes for a microwave to perform the same task.

...The spoon has a single heat setting and users can choose between heating their meal fully ready for eating, or warming each individual mouthful as they go. The batteries can last up to a month of daily use twice a day.

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