 everything they need for stress-free dining this semester!
Your kid might be eating in their dorm room more than usual, and depending on how much space they have that could pose a problem. Turn their bed into a double-duty dining space with this bed tray, which also has a place to prop up a phone or tablet.
With a capacity of 16-ounces, this mug has room to take a heaping helping of coffee with you when you head out the door. This container includes a leak-proof lid and can keep liquids cold for 24 hours and hot for 16 hours. The container is also insulated with a copper wall, which keeps condensation from building up on the outside of the container.
No one should be expected to make it through college classes (or life) without coffee. This little Keurig ensures that your kid doesn't have to, no matter how small their kitchen is. The Mini only five inches wide and seven inches tall, but it still holds enough for a 12-ounce cup of joe. Don’t worry, like a normal Keurig, the coffee is still ready to go in minutes.
In addition to being powerful, compact and effective, this microwave is compatible with Amazon’s Alexa. That’s right, this means that it’s nearly hands-free, which is perfect for minimizing the amount of germs that are transferred — especially around food. Just think, you could pop a bag of popcorn in there, and tell it to start popping mid-movie from your living space (oh hey, Echo Dot!).
The only thing that could make the Instant Pot better, especially if you have a dorm-room-sized kitchen, is if it was smaller. Well, don’t worry — the brand has granted that wish. This little guy still acts as a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer and even a yogurt maker — just in a more compact form. It holds up to six-quarts, which equates to about six cups of uncooked rice or 12 cups of cooked rice.
Keep leftovers and lunches fresh in this compact mini fridge. It’s 17 inches wide and 19 inches tall, making it the perfect solution for small kitchens and dorm rooms. It also has an adjustable thermostat and is super quiet.
If your kid needs smoothies to get going in the morning, they definitely don’t have to compromise just because their dorm room doesn’t have space for a blender. This little magic bullet makes perfect personal-sized smoothies that can be popped off the base and taken with you to-go. It includes 13-pieces, which make it easy to chop, mix, blend, whip, grind and whatever else you need to create your favorite snacks.
This 18-piece food storage set has perfect glass containers and reusable lids. They come in a variety of sizes, all of which are dishwasher- and microwave-safe. Don’t worry, the glass isn’t porous, so it won’t absorb food stains or odors.
This 16-piece set may be made of durable melamine, but it looks sleek and sophisticated. It comes in four different colorways, and is completely chip, stain and break-resistant.
Stock a new apartment with all of the cooking utensils that they could ever need. This 14-piece set is made of high-heat resistant silicone, and includes tongs, a spatula, a wooden spoon, a ladle and lots of other necessities. It also comes with a little holder for your countertop.
This little set includes a traveling case so that they can stick in it in the desk drawer in their dorm room after you’ve finished eating. It includes a dinner knife, spoon, fork, chopsticks, a cleaning brush and a couple of straws. They’re all made of stainless steel, making them durable and easy to clean.
Not only are these YETI bottles available in a variety of pretty colors, they hold up to 18-ounces and they're super durable. The color is fade, crack and peel-proof so that your kid can keep it looking vibrant and bright. It’s double-walled and vacuum-sealed so their drinks are sure to stay hot or cold for as long as they need.
Pop this pitcher in a mini fridge and rest easy knowing that you have ice cold filtered water ready to go. It filters out copper, mercury, zinc and cadmium impurities all while reducing the taste and odor of chlorine. This particular pitcher even comes with a filter status indicator so that you’ll know when it’s time to change it out.
This electric kettle holds up to one liter and boasts 1,500-watts of power — so water will be hot in no time! It’s completely cordless and comes with a removable filter that's super easy to clean. It also has an automatic shut-off feature so that it’s safe for dorm room living.
Why opt for plastic bags when you could use these durable, reusable options? This set comes with a sandwich and a snack bag, both of which are made with food-safe silicone and is totally dishwasher-safe. They’re air-tight and self-sealing — so add convenience to the list alongside environmentally-friendly!
Related Content:I am sure he is…so is Bezos, Branson, probably Boeing,, they all would like to wave their magic wand and “getting from there to here” but that kind of technology, operations culture and a lot of other things (including markets) do not emerge with either hand waving or overnight. in your world Jobs or someone could go from the Apple 2 (and Falcon 9 is not the Apple 2 in technology development) to a dual core pentium in well one stroke.
assuming it works…250 tons…ok lets peer into Mr. Magic mirror…do you have any idea what the cost of that sized vehicle would be?
Maybe it is because the events of the last week make it very clear that NASA, Boeing and Lockheed just aren’t going to get America to the Moon. They are not even able to get off the launch pad. So SpaceX is the only game in town.
About one-tenth what it would cost Boeing to do it if Falcon Heavy is a guide. Maybe even less since the engines have entered production for it.
Absolutely. That’s why there were so many active launch sites at Cape Canaveral in those days. Today, there are only a handful of active launch sites.
That’s not how SpaceX rolls. Falcon 9’s first stage was supposed to not have to restart its engines in flight, was supposed to reenter on its own (without slowing down before reentry), and then parachute into the ocean where it would be picked up and refurbished. None of that worked out. By your line of thinking above, that would be it and we never would have seen SpaceX first stage recoveries.
Instead, SpaceX tried another approach entirely. We now see Falcon 9 first stages performing reentry burns followed by landing burns on most flights. And most of the time, they land successfully.
We’ve also seen this with Starship. SpaceX abandoned composite construction because thermal protection for composites would have needed to have been quite substantial. So, they switched to stainless steel for the tanks and structure and this hexagonal thermal protection system. Will it work? Given the testing they’ve done to date it should, but it’s not a sure thing.
But, I am sure SpaceX won’t give up if it fails. They’ll come up with another solution to the problem and start test flights again.
In the computer world this is iterative (Agile) development. If you fail, you want to fail early, so you can adjust your plans and try again. In aerospace this is sometimes called, “build a little, test a little, fly a little”. It’s how we did R&D on aircraft “back in the day” when we didn’t know much and didn’t have powerful digital computers to model everything.
The alternative in computers is the “waterfall approach”. You spend months gathering requirements, then months documenting workflows, then months doing an analysis, then months doing a design, and finally you implement everything. What happens when something doesn’t work during implementation? You’re screwed. Note that this is the approach being taken by SLS. It *has* to work right the first time or the program is doomed, so everything has taken longer and more money.
A successful, fully reusable, TSTO will put every single expendable launch vehicle out of business.
There isn’t any analogy I’m aware of that really fits. What other transportation industry persisted for over 60 years where every vehicle of its type was thrown away after only a single use?
Single use rafts down the Mississippi.
Well, the “hand” that’s full keeps growing new fingers as more NewSpace launch companies step up to take over and rehab derelict pads. We have some serious gentrification going on in the slums of Cape Canaveral.
There will be still more to come. Space Florida may soon be in the happy situation of having no more relict sites to the south to offer newcomers and will have to authorize new sites on bare ground to the north.
Not being pathologically timid and tight-arsed isn’t the same as being reckless. Besides, “barnstorming” paid off pretty well for SpaceX anent Falcon 9 reusability.
It’s one thing to be a corpulent, slug of a legacy prime on a cost-plus IV drip or a NASA full of high-mileage drones just waiting for their retirement dates to roll around. It’s quite another to be