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Miraculous wine glass holds drinks galore in its gravity-defying reserve tank
Is this a joke? The Glass Tank is a design concept that supposedly replenishes your drink from its bulbous appendage, keeping a constant amount of grog in your glass. Could it actually work without painting the front of your shirt the deep red color of your favorite Beaujolais?
As the designers say in simple terms, "It is a glass for drinking a lot." We're just wondering, is this a design that was created while drinking a lot? The designer says the glass never overflows "because of air pressure and water pressure." Insert miracle here. Is it us, or is this impossible?
Rocket scientists, plumbers, smarty-pants commenters — help us out here, because if this thing works, it would be a great conversation piece at a party, as well as a convenient way to get tanked. And when stopped for driving erratically, you could truthfully blurt out, "Yes, officer, I had just one drink."
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Kyouei Design, via Trendsnow
By ghost at 2:05 PM ON 04/20/09
Yes, it will work. It works just like all those automated pet water jugs work.
By ahkayos at 2:31 PM ON 04/20/09
Yes, this could work. As ghost says, they use this sort of device for pet feeders (also hummingbird feeders). So long as the upper bulb is airtight, the only way to get the liquid out is to let an equal amount of air in. This is controlled by tube angle at the base of the "cup." When enough liquid is removed, air is allowed into the tube and rises into the tank, permitting more liquid to fill the glass. (see the graphic you included on this page, pretty accurate, just don't need to tilt it).
I would caution that one should not tip this too quickly, if you get a large air bubble in the tube, you are likely to get an explosion of wine in your face!
By conner at 2:36 PM ON 04/20/09
I just drink from the bottle. It's a lot easier and I don't have to do dishes when I wake up the next day.
By boogey12 at 2:37 PM ON 04/20/09
Regardless, it is stupid. You are still gonna have to hold all that wine in your glass when you lift it, might as well simplify it and just have a bigger glass.
By Clyde at 4:47 PM ON 04/20/09
It glugs while you glug.
By Vance at 6:30 PM ON 04/20/09
I guess you guys have never seen those cat/dog self-filling water and food fishes..
I still wonder what kind of person would want such a thing. And I worry.
By Paul at 7:27 PM ON 04/20/09
I'm with conner, just drink from the bottle or get a big straw and punch a hole in your wine box like you did with your juice box in kindergarten.
Yea homies.
By huh? at 9:04 PM ON 04/20/09
Looks too much like a mens urinal to me....
By distended sac at 11:35 PM ON 04/20/09
pee blood lately?
By David Donahue at 1:38 AM ON 04/21/09
How do get the wine into the glass in the first place?
I suppose you could try immersing it mostly upside down, but then wouldn't the shape hold a bubble in either the glass or reservoir regardless of angle? Maybe shaking it immersed would get some limited flow.
You could use hold the glass upright and put a double tube snaked into the top part of the bulb, with one tube being a siphon to a higher held wine bottle and the other tube being slightly longer and used as an a suctioning air vent. But that seems very over complicated.
Easier would be to change the bulb design to have a big hole with an airtight cap in the top and a second plug that goes in the tube when the top cap is open.
You could get away with just a single bulb hole with cap if you used immersion (the let the air out of the bulb).
But all these methods seem awkward, clumsy and much more trouble than just refilling your regular glass.
All in all a not very usable design. Next time test and debug with a prototype before presenting it to the public.
By AmazonGirl at 2:06 AM ON 04/21/09
Forget getting the wine into the glass, how do you get the wine into your mouth? It seems like you would have to slurp it out, or hold it in some weirdly unbalanced way to avoid bonking yourself in the head with that huge carafe tumor. It just looks like a quick way to spill red wine on yourself!
By Kaylah at 2:11 AM ON 04/21/09
Where can i get this??
By redice2 at 11:01 AM ON 04/21/09
another thought also how are you suppose to clean this thing after you use it? through the small neck opening at the bottom
By Tanya at 1:33 PM ON 04/21/09
How do you drink out of it, without the tank part smacking you in the forehead?
By JP at 1:49 PM ON 04/21/09
How do you get the wine into the bulb thing at the top?
By NYCKim at 2:29 PM ON 04/21/09
It looks gross. Like a colostomy bag,
If you are that desperate to hold all of your wine that close to you all at once then just chug from the bottle.
By Screaming Squirrel at 9:53 PM ON 04/21/09
Medical claims, such as "Zero to Totally Gassed in 60 minutes" require FDA review and approval.
By SiliconAddict at 5:33 PM ON 04/23/09
*facepalms* People go back to highschool and take physics 101. Really.
By Ricky Shambles at 6:27 PM ON 04/25/09
I second redice2 with a bow to conner: why would I want to deal with figuring out how to clean this thing the morning after? Gimmicky endures for only so long before you're trying too hard. "Look at Ricky with that crazy wine thing [interested]" turns into hours of explaining to everyone who wants to know how it works, then you're drunk, futzing with something that you will soon tip too far and dump wine into your face, leaving you with "Look at Ricky with that crazy wine thing [embarrassed for you]."
Beautiful design, interesting concept, totally impractical.
By PaintLight at 11:49 AM ON 04/26/09
Why not just get a bigger glass? I mean this thing would work but the bulb would get you in the head when drinking and be a pain to clean. Not exactly dishwasher friendly.
By Vyral at 11:42 PM ON 08/25/09
Seriously guys, not as a glass, but what a sweet looking decanter. The filling and cleaning thing is still a mystery to me, but Love the look. Just n
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