Self-Heating Mug Warming Plate

You make a coffee. By 9:40 you're drinking it cold, because the email you opened at 9:05 was longer than it looked. This warming plate holds your mug at drinking temperature while you get pulled into something else — which, on a work-from-home morning, is always.

• Keeps drinks at a steady drinking temperature, not scalding — just not cold

• USB powered, plugs into any laptop or plug adapter

• Works with most ceramic and steel mugs

Not a miracle, just one less small annoyance before 10am.

Part of a bigger set of small upgrades — see home office comfort essentials for more of them.