![]() But perhaps the best advancement brought about by the Cube is its reusability. No heavier than the cardboard box with freezer packs traditionally used with shipping at these temperatures, the Cube continues Ember’s techy bent by including cloud-based tracking. Once the Cube arrives at its destination, it’s able to be “recharged ” the unit gets plugged into to a USB-C cable to power up the vented refrigeration system to re-freeze the gel. As the gel takes on more heat and turns liquid, it nonetheless keeps the temperature of the contents of the Cube stable. Inside, it keeps things cool using vacuum insulation “like a Yeti cooler” and a “phase-change material… gel-like substance” that starts off in a frozen state but absorbs the small amounts of heat able to work inside the box. The Cube, which looks like a matte black edged version of the Edgeless Safety Cube from Portal, is constructed of a few inches thick polypropylene foam, the material used in exercise equipment. ![]() As we have all learned throughout the pandemic, vaccines often need to be transported at specific, sometimes ultra-cold temperatures, and while the Cube won’t achieve the -130☏ needed for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, it will be able to keep contents at 41☏ for up to 72 hours. As reported by Fast Company, the Ember Cube looks to tap into the “cold chain,” the temperature-dependent subset of the delivery supply chain that is expected $580 billion by 2030. But this one from Ember is inarguably the most interesting. We’ve seen shops making deliveries, selling pantry items, and even offering large-format coffee drinks. The pandemic has brought about some interesting pivots by coffee companies. The California-based makers of the app-controlled self-heating coffee mug, which has divided the Sprudge office on whether or not it is a necessary piece of equipment, has entered the medical delivery fray with their latest creation: a shipping box that will keep contents cold. Ember has made a product that even I, the biggest (or at least loudest) Ember naysayer, cannot help but find objectively cool.
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