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Or you could just get a hot water bottle... seriously, they are £5 and will never catch on fire. Not continuous but they keep you pretty damn warm for a good ho

by tomxor 8y ago

Or you could just get a hot water bottle... seriously, they are £5 and will never catch on fire. Not continuous but they keep you pretty damn warm for a good hour before needing a refill. Sometimes it's better to just keep things simple. You also don't need to worry about quality / safety of manufacturing, it's a simple rubber mould - very difficult to get wrong.

andbberger 8y ago
you really need a power source to be an alternative to a space heater. i want to sleep with this thing
Someone 8y ago
Still easy to get wrong, I would say. If the lid comes of accidentally or the bottle shears when you lie on top of it, the hot water can burn you. A few iterations of cost cutting without much regard for safety (why is that skin so thick? Why do we buy premium quality materials?) will easily give you such a device.
- tomxor 8y ago
  > A few iterations of cost cutting without much regard for safety (why is that skin so thick? Why do we buy premium quality materials?) will easily give you such a device. It's not a complex profit making product, it's a single piece of rubber, it's not gona suffer from washing-machine syndrome (hot water bottles predate them by centuries). The modern rubber design was patented in 1903, you find the exact same design everywhere today - If anything is a time proven piece of technology it's the frickin hot water bottle trust me.
  - Someone 8y ago
    “hot water bottle recall” gives me several examples of unsafe water bottles. It also gives me https://www.productsafety.gov.au/about-us/videos/hot-water-bottles-the-hidden-dangers https://www.productsafety.gov.au/about-us/videos/hot-water-b..., which says: ”Every year, around 200 people are admitted to hospital with serious burns related to hot water bottles. These are not just superficial burns. Some burns can even require skin grafts and weeks of hospitalisation.” And that doesn’t even talk of faulty water bottles, just of faulty use. Among the things it suggests are to buy a new hot water bottle at the start of each winter, and to only use a hot water bottle to heat the bed – take it out before you get in.
    - tomxor 8y ago
      That sounds like a very low proportion of users compared to most things, and as you say - due to miss use.
Doxin 8y ago
A nicer solution is to get a bag-of-pits, like magic bag. You stick them in the microwave to heat them up in minutes, they retain heat for hours, and there's no risk of spilling near-boiling water.

by tomxor 8y ago

andbberger 8y ago

you really need a power source to be an alternative to a space heater. i want to sleep with this thing

Someone 8y ago

Still easy to get wrong, I would say. If the lid comes of accidentally or the bottle shears when you lie on top of it, the hot water can burn you. A few iterations of cost cutting without much regard for safety (why is that skin so thick? Why do we buy premium quality materials?) will easily give you such a device.

tomxor 8y ago
> A few iterations of cost cutting without much regard for safety (why is that skin so thick? Why do we buy premium quality materials?) will easily give you such a device. It's not a complex profit making product, it's a single piece of rubber, it's not gona suffer from washing-machine syndrome (hot water bottles predate them by centuries). The modern rubber design was patented in 1903, you find the exact same design everywhere today - If anything is a time proven piece of technology it's the frickin hot water bottle trust me.
- Someone 8y ago
  “hot water bottle recall” gives me several examples of unsafe water bottles. It also gives me https://www.productsafety.gov.au/about-us/videos/hot-water-bottles-the-hidden-dangers https://www.productsafety.gov.au/about-us/videos/hot-water-b..., which says: ”Every year, around 200 people are admitted to hospital with serious burns related to hot water bottles. These are not just superficial burns. Some burns can even require skin grafts and weeks of hospitalisation.” And that doesn’t even talk of faulty water bottles, just of faulty use. Among the things it suggests are to buy a new hot water bottle at the start of each winter, and to only use a hot water bottle to heat the bed – take it out before you get in.
  - tomxor 8y ago
    That sounds like a very low proportion of users compared to most things, and as you say - due to miss use.

Doxin 8y ago

A nicer solution is to get a bag-of-pits, like magic bag. You stick them in the microwave to heat them up in minutes, they retain heat for hours, and there's no risk of spilling near-boiling water.