Photo: Daniel Salo
With a cylinder of liquid carbon dioxide and this $500 gadget from Hammacher Schlemmer, our in-house bar is always about 60 seconds away from being stocked with blocks of dry ice — solid CO2, slowly sublimating into spooky fog as it chills our beverages of choice. Sure, we have to pick our way around frostbitten researchers passed out amid toxic clouds of the greenhouse gas. But that's a small price to pay for mai tais that froth and steam like Kilauea.
The Toxic Cloud-Emitting Portable Dry Ice Maker in action. For more, visit wired.com/video.
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