BEANZAWAVE: USB MICROWAVE

9 June 2009

Meet the Beanzawave. This prototype is the world’s smallest microwave measuring 7.4 inches tall by 2.6 inches wide and 5.9 inches deep.

The Beanzawave works by using mobile phone radio frequencies to create heat enough to cook food products in under a minute! (It certainly brings up issues of what phone frequencies must be doing to our brains.)

How did this project all start? Heinz asked microwave expert Gordon Andrews and industrial design authority Stephen Frazer to develop this portable USB powered microwave to promote their Snap Pots. Andrews, the managing director of GAMA Microwave Technology, stated that users can ‘tune’ the radio-frequencies to provide best results.

‘It is possible to heat a pie, a burger, a cup of soup or tea in quick time,’ Andrews said.

There is talk of making it usable with lithium batteries, meaning the Beanzawave would become a microwave on the go.

Want one? Hold onto your spoons for now fellow nerds, Heinz hasn’t released it yet. They might for around $160 if consumer feedback is positive.