Coca-Cola 12V Portable 4L Cooler/Warmer, AC/DC Powered, Power Cords Included, Compact Travel Speaker and Personal Mini-Fridge, Unique Gift for Music-Lovers

I LOVE this mini frig! I have it in my nightstand. It holds 6 regular soda cans. I also buy minis so it holds more of a variety for me. And it gets COLD! I haven’t tried the heat feature. Has a slight hum to it but nothing bothersome to me. Definitely recommend!

The reviews seem to split on two issues - is it noisy, and does it cool effectively? If half the reviews were right, it seemed perfect for my desk, because I need a way to have drinks (cold soda, or hot coffee with milk) without having to stop for a long trip to the cafeteria. So, I took a chance. First, on cooling: I think some people are confused about how a thermoelectric refrigerator works. "Normal" refrigerators cool food by cooling the air and blowing it around with a fan, or in some cases by cooling all the interior walls. Since the air and walls have a low thermal mass, refrigerators work BEST when they're mostly full of cold items. So, in general you want to keep them full or almost full, and in small ones if possible you want to pre-cool the items before putting them in (unless you have a lot of time available to remove all that heat.) This refrigerator has two zones - a metallic surface from the back to about 2/3 of the front, and a plastic zone at the last 2" near the door. The cooling ONLY occurs through conductivity at the metallic surfaces, so that's where you want to put milk, dairy products, etc. If the refrigerator is full, the food near the front will be cooled by contact with the cold food in the back, and by the cold air between all the cold foods, but it won't get as cold as the food in the back. I think that's what's causing the "this isn't cold enough" reviews - the sodas and milk I put in the back are VERY cold. (I think they designed the fridge for cans to lay on their side, so the back and front wouldn't have different items. But that won't work on anything but 12 ounce cans.) Now, about the noise: Very annoying and loud whine. It uses what looks like a cheap, noisy 80mm square computer case cooling fan, 20mm thick, drawing 0.15A at 12V. There are many much quieter fans out there, but that thickness is hard to find, I just ordered a much quieter 25mm thick one, and I think there's enough clearance that it will work fine. I also ordered noise-suppression screws - the whole thing was less than $10 plus shipping. The important thing is that the replacement fan can't draw more current than the original. Will it work? Stay tuned - I'm going to update after I put it in and, if it does, I'll give the model info and some assembly tips. (If it doesn't work, I'll learn to live with the noise.) Update 3/8/13: I just replaced the fan with a quieter one, and the fridge - which still cools very well - is now totally silent. I'm changing the rating to five stars, based on how cheap and easy it was to do this. I sit about five feet away from it in my office, and I can't hear anything at all now. Before, the noise was a steady whine that I sorta kinda got almost used to, but now that it's totally gone I can tell from its strong absence that it was an ever-present annoyance. Seriously, I have to check the light to make sure this thing's on. So, here's what I did: I bought a Coolink SWiF-801 80mm Quiet Computer Case Fan from QuietPCUSA (online), which sold it for $4.95 plus shipping. (In Amazon, searching for that model brings up a $30 alternative.) There are many other fans and other vendors to choose from, but any you pick should be (1) 80mm square, no more than 25mm thick, (2) DC12V and a MAXIMUM of 0.15A (the one I bought about half that amperage), (3) specifically rated as quiet - this model claims 11 dB, and (4) have reasonable airflow and RPM (this one claims 38 cubic meters/hour at 1500 RPM.) Frankly, you might do better but at five bucks and near-total silence (vs office background) it's hard to justify the effort to try. I'm not a super-DYI guy, but I got a couple of small wire nuts, a small flat-head screwdriver, and borrowed a wire stripper. The back comes out with eight small screws. The fan comes out with four small screws. The new fan's cable had a connector at the end - I cut it off, cut back the outer sleeve and exposed a couple of inches of the wiring. The yellow wire can be ignored, it's for speed control and the Koolatron's original fan - which I removed with a small flat-head screw driver - only has a black and a red wire. I cut off the original fan's wire and very carefully cut into the wiring insulation to expose the thin metal wires inside. Then I pulled on the insulation with my fingernail, exposing about an inch. Did the same with the black and red wires in the new fan, stranded the like-color ends together, bent the exposed wires in half, connected them with the wiring nuts and then screwed the fan back into the back. I'd bought "anti-vibration fan screws" but they aren't suitable for the Koolatron case, so that was three bucks wasted. I cut out four small squares of thin rubber and placed them between the fan and the case, using the screws to make a tiny gasket. (Chances are, that's not necessary, but I'm not taking it all apart to check.) That's it! Just two wires and twelve small screws, about fifteen minutes if you've ever stripped a wire and used a screwdriver. And, man, is it quiet!

I really like iced apple juice, but the ice was melting before I ever finished my drink. I was going through apple juice like crazy, but never really drinking much of it. I bought this personal fridge to cut down on wasting apple juice (don't like it all watered down from melted ice). It works so well, that I can fill a 12oz glass with juice, put in a few cubes of ice, and seven hours later, the ice has not melted. Think about it...seven hours! If I leave a glass of ice and juice out for 30 minutes, the ice has melted down to little bitty bits and the juice is too watery. I used the "Mastercool MSC52224A Infrared Thermometer in Case with FREE MSC52220 Analog Thermometer" that I bought from Amazon to check the temperature performance. The manual for the mini fridge says that it is capable of cooling to 32 (deg F) below ambient. I checked it on a hot day, a warm day, a cool day, and several times between using the digital IR thermometer and it is consistently 32-45 degrees cooler inside the fridge than the outside temperature. Even on a 90 degree day the ice did not melt and I didn't have to replace my drink. The inside temperature at the warmest spot was consistently hovering around 45 to 47 degrees (F). My drink was at around 36 to 38 degrees, depending on where I measured it. On the days that were around 70 degrees, this fridge read temperatures close to freezing. In fact, I was amazed when I pulled out a frosty glass of apple juice. It happened only once, but still...worth mentioning. I think the trick to getting this to work optimally is to provide several inches of space for the back end where it vents out the heat. I used the thermometer there as well- the vent on either side exhausts at about 90 degrees (F) but at a low volume so it is not very useful as a space heater. The unit runs quiet- very quiet. It comes with both an AC adapter, and a DC lighter-socket adapter for the car. The power switch has three positions- Off (middle) to the right is 110AC, and to the left is 12VDC (car). There is a single green LED to indicate ON operation, there are two warm air exhausts on each side at the rear, and two cool air intakes- one at the back plate, and one on the top at the aft end. This is why ventilation and spacing is important- due to the proximity of the hot air exhaust and cool air intake- there needs to be room for the warm air to dissipate and not be drawn in by the cool air intake. The manual says 6 inches space all around, I've found that about half that works in my situation. I have not tried a six-pack, or tried using it in a car. What I can say is that if you like to have a cold drink handy to sip on all day while you study, this unit is worth every penny. I have not had to waste a glass of juice because it was watered down since using this unit- for that, 5 stars easily.

This is cute and my son loved it. Holds 4 cans and keeps them very cool. Not the best material but fine overall. Great for a man cave or bedroom.

I live in a two story home - my legs are not the best -I finally knew I needed a small fridge - all the fridges are so ugly - but I REALLY needed one. Oh, how I hated to have one of those ugly square boxes standing around like a college freshman. I looked and looked - over 2 years - SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER, I saw - in the Amazon pages - of course - this Koolatron Coca - Cola fridge. All I need is some cheese, yogurt, a piece of chicken "maybe" or something for a late dinner . . . just something that gives me some 'real' food to eat at night - without a trip down the stairs - this is it!!!! I drink my drinks at room temperature, so I did not need a lot of space, but this is it for food! I HAVE FOUND THE CUTEST FRIDGE EVER! Under $40.00 - all the time on Amazon - as everything is, all the time on Amazon. No, I am NOT a shill. I would be for free because Amazon and the free shipping has made my life wonderful. This is so cute that I just plunked it down in MY office on a white cabinet - plugged it in - it is 11x11x8 so it fits on a book shelf, btw. It works in a car, too, but I will never do that. I did order one for my son who uses insulin and he will have it for his car. It is also a food warmer. Hot or Cold - Everything is better in a Coca Cola Mini Fridge.

Small, but perfect for my son, Coca-Cola Bear reminds me of my Mom!

First of all I bought this with next day shipping because it was only 1 more dollar than standard shipping. I purchased it Sunday 3/24, and it was guaranteed by Amazon to come the next day by 8PM. It actually arrived here 3/25th at around 10:30AM, so 5 stars for the shipping [and the cooler itself I would say it's 4 stars]. I love great shipping, that is very important. For the cooler, i've only been the owner of this for several hours, so my feedback will be limited. It's small which is good because it's for my room and it's for small things, I did not want a larger than life fridge, there's one in the kitchen already. I do not plan on putting food in there, just drinks. Honestly, it's not THAT cold, but I already knew that, it's cool enough and that's what matters. If you're buying this, with the price and all, you should know what you are getting. You're buying a $50 mini fridge, don't expect a $2,500-$3,000 6 foot tall, french-door fridge with an ice dispenser and an ice cream making machine. Buy this mini fridge with low hopes like I did, I knew I was purposely being a cheapo and didn't want a $150-200 dollar mini fridge so I got this. BTW it looks really cool [no pun]. It has a noticeably "old school" style, that every one who's seen it points out. One more thing, it's louder than my PC, it sounds a little bit like an Air Conditioner.

I read most of the reviews and know many people had problems, but couldn't find a similar alternative so crossed my fingers and hoped I'd get lucky. It's been over a week and seems good to me... My latch handle is metal (with plastic latch on the fridge) and works exactly as I'd expect and I don't think I could easily break it or open it the wrong way. My design looks exactly like the Amazon picture. Mine is not especially loud. Not noticeable at all on the floor under my desk in my cube at work. The only sound is a fan which is similar to the sound of a desktop computer. I am using it in an air-conditioned office that varies between 70F & 75F and canned soda feels just about as cold as from a fridge to me whether I have six cans in there or two; can still feels cold 20 minutes later. I've only used it for canned soda and have not had any moisture build up. The only complaints I do have I can't blame on the thing - I now seem to be drinking twice as much soda because they're so close and accessible, and I don't get up from my desk as often because I no longer need to get up to grab a drink from the fridge. UPDATE: It died. I'd had it under my desk for about three years without ever unplugging or moving it, worked fine. Moved it for the first time (to new office) and it still worked but made a high-frequency noise, enough that others complained and I was thinking about replacing it even tho it was still working... but two weeks later it died anyway, just stopped cooling (even tho still making the noise). So I bought a new one. They've updated the picture on this because the new one has the polar bear on it like current picture, where old one was the drink ice cold coke in bottles (which is ironic as most bottles don't even fit, definitely not the glass 350ml or plastic 650ml coke bottles. Maybe could fit lucky or red stripe bottles, never tried). This polar bear version must be slightly smaller as my old one wouldn't fit in the new ones box, but looks the same to me.