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I can’t adjust the noise cancellation mode on my Bose headphones except through a phone app; the same goes for my ultra-fancy automated pour-over coffee maker and self-heating coffee mug.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

The process could be especially useful in creating self-heating microfluidics for remote regions of developing countries where clinicians may not have access to the expensive lab equipment required for many diagnostic procedures.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

“In situations like this, there’s thermal runaway, which is an uncontrollable self-heating state,” These are extremely hard to extinguish,” Phoenix Fire Department Captain Todd Keller told KPHO-TV.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2023

For one thing, although the plasma is self-heating, it might still radiate more heat than it generates, including the energy lost when the implosion blows itself apart after reaching peak compression.

From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2022

“But how can it be self-heating I’d like to know?” asked Ethan, scornfully.

From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Boone, Silas K.