An easier way without spending money is to put water into a bucket of ice and then your bottle or can

Very cool idea for chilling ur drink less than 1 min !!!

Advice: use salted ice. - http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/03/mythbusters_cooling_a_sixpack.html

Just use well salted ice and submerge the container in the liquid ice mix. using an Ice Bucket that held only three cans and three teens kept pulling cold beverages out by putting room temperature cans in when we did.

Nothing new. 1969 we used a bloc of ice, spun beverages, old tech

Brilliant idea, when you forget to refill the fridge with beer! I think a bucket of water and ice would take more than a minute to cool your beer.

This device will create happiness, awe, and elevated levels of impairment worldwide. I'm in!

"somehow running out of cold beer always seems to come as a surprise"
LOL! Quote of the year.

There must be some odd hydrodynamics going on due to the spinning to speed the heat flow. Otherwise it would be no quicker than immersion.

Not only has it been done, but it's been done and refined: http://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Cooler-Beverage-Chiller-Brushed-Silver/dp/B0000U3CIW