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Cool revolution in hot creation

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A Hong Kong inventor has found a way of keeping things cold without electricity, and buyers are queueing up already

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You might find one in your hotel room, by the pool or wrapped around your champagne. Or it might be what is keeping your medication cool. With more than 50 models, many of which are already available, there will soon be no escaping the Fridge-to-go.

They may look like normal portable insulated cooler bags or tubes, but there the similarity ends, says Kado Industrial's chairman, chief executive and inventor Jackson Chan Chik-sum, 57.

These compact, lightweight, collapsible, reusable and environmentally safe bags represent a revolution in refrigeration, Mr Chan says emphatically.

Necessity apparently still being the mother of invention, the Fridge-to-go idea was born when an airline approached Mr Chan, who is renowned for his clever innovations, to stop their drinks trolley ice from melting in flight.

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For Mr Chan, who had been developing products since 1979, particularly for airlines and the hospitality industry, it was just another problem to solve.

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