{I spotted ‘The Hot One’ in another publication and decided to contact the people behind it. At first glance, it looks to me like an ‘electric blanket, without the electric’. As somebody who openly admits to liking some ‘home comforts’ when he goes fishing, especially carp fishing, I can see an appeal here. Call me a wimp if you like, but I’m a warm wimp!
The press release below should give you an idea of what The Hot One is about. It will be interesting to see what price it comes out at – Ed}
The Hot One
The Hot One is a ‘Totally Portable Heated Blanket’. The Inventor, Darren Gudgin, is a Heating Engineer from Langford, Bedfordshire, also a very keen fisherman, hence ‘The Hot One’ was born.
The Hot One has many Applications, but it was primarily invented for fishing. Darren took The Hot One to the British Invention Show at Alexandra Palace for a 3 and a half day event (13th.14th 15th and 16th Oct, 2010) where he exhibited the blanket hoping to get some leads to help develop his invention further.
Darren walked away with much more than he ever expected – a ‘Double Gold British Invention Award for Innovation’ within the Leisure Category. Darren commented, “I was totally blown away when they called my name out. I had walked around the show on the day of judging to see the other inventions at the show. There were delegates from Taiwan, Malaysia, Iran, Spain to name but a few, and their inventions were amazing.
“I came to the show to get contacts that would help me develop my invention, which I did, and from this I have now got The Hot One being manufactured and also got invited to Moscow to show The Hot One to the Military next April, which is fantastic although I am trying to get in touch with our own MOD, as we would want to supply our own troops also.
As an inventor, receiving this award is totally overwhelming and makes the last few years of developing and inventing all worth while.”
The Hot One is potentially a life saving piece of equipment for Emergency Services, Rescue Services and Military Uses. The Hot One consist of a Portable boiler unit and stove connected to a padded blanket. The stove and boiler unit heats an antifreeze solution (allowing subzero operating temperatures), which is then pumped around the blanket via tubing channelled throughout the blanket. This ensures maximum heat distribution to the user.
On a good set of batteries the pump will run for approximately 16 to 20 hours. Each Canister of fuel will last between 16 to 24 hours.
