Yeti’s $800 vacuum insulated cooler with 50% more ice retention has us intrigued! - Yanko Design

Austin based Yeti has stamped its name every bit one of the forerunners in the cooler industry with information technology's thick and (pretty awesome) insulation packed coolers. The Yeti Tundra has been the longstanding epitome of what a great libation should be. With impressive ice retention, the fan favorite libation seems about unbeatable. Nonetheless, Yeti has managed to beat themselves at their ain game! The maverick company is too known for its vacuum insulated drinkware. And so they asked themselves, "Tin can vacuum insulation exist integrated into a cooler?", and they spent the next couple of years religiously experimenting and prototyping, testing their own boundaries to finally nowadays The Yeti V Series. The Yeti 5 Serial might just be the first vacuum insulated libation we have seen. Vacuum chambers are considered to exist the all-time insulators, every bit they don't let heat or cold to be transferred by conduction, hence isolating the hot or common cold substance, and sustaining the substance's temperature for hours on cease.

Designer: Yeti

Created from kitchen-grade stainless steel, the vacuum insulated cooler will historic period gracefully over years of usage. Yeti had to forfeit their trusted manufacturing and pattern philosophy to create the V series. "We've made a name, in role, by doing these actually big rotationally molded pieces of plastic with lots of insulation inside them," said Rob Murdock, who led the evolution of the V series, "and information technology's really constructive, but you lot can't put a vacuum panel within of a rotational mold because in consequence you're molding the whole thing at in one case."

Yeti did try to follow their age-old procedure but to no avail. "Every fourth dimension the designers tried to retrofit a rotomolded cooler with vacuum panels, the panels got damaged. Instead, the team created an injection-molded plastic shell that was stiff plenty to protect the vacuum technology inside the i.five-inch thick walls."

Weighing 35 pounds, The 5 Series offers 50% meliorate ice memory than the Tundra. And since the Tundra was every bit good as a cooler could get, we tin can assume that the Five Serial is going to be giving other coolers on the market an even stiffer competition. Sleek, with a retro appeal, the cooler has been equipped with cast-aluminum hinges that are guaranteed to final a lifetime and stainless steel handles. The usual double latches on coolers have been abased for a more than convenient unmarried center-mounted latch. one.5 inches thick, it promises to hold 46 cans of beer, assuring you that your beverages volition never run out!

Accounted leak-proof, 'stylistically, [The V Series is] a nod to the past', but its functionality and tech are conspicuously futuristic. This one of a kind cooler has been priced at $800. It does make you wonder whether the V Series packs enough of an innovative dial for y'all to pay such a heavy price? You could merely purchase a decent refrigerator for the same price, but how handy could be a fridge be on your outdoor adventures? With its release scheduled on Dec 5^th2019, Yeti's V Serial will finally clear the questions; is the future of coolers here? And is that future worth $800?