My school lunch box contained the same thing every single day. Four Cheddar cheese and salad cream sandwiches, a bag of salt and vinegar crisps (which would be shoved into the sarnie just before eating it) and a two-finger Kit Kat. I also carried a thermos flask of milky English tea, or sometimes coffee, thus getting my caffeine habit kicked off at an early age.

So the Mo:Ben would have been useless to me. For fancier tastes, though, the stylish lunch pail allows heating in-situ and also stores your cutlery ready for use. A heating element is housed in the base and a power socket in the side allows connection to the mains. You still need to have a wall wart to use it, so hot picnics are out, but it’s certainly easier than carrying a microwave with you.

The concept, from designer Alex Cheong, is modular and would be fully dishwasher safe. Oddly, it looks like he has opted for a proprietary power connector rather than using the universally available kettle lead, an improvement which would obviate the need to carry a cable for your lunch.

I would actually have loved this at school, although I wouldn’t have used it for heating my food. It would probably have been used to cook insects and other small animals, as a rainy-day alternative to frying them with a magnifying glass and the sun.

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