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Self-Stirring Cup Concept
The cup doesn't really stir itself on its own, but it has a ball that fits into a groove that can be swirled around to mix up your tea and sugar. It's a funny concept that's looking for a manufacturer, but is there a problem with stirring out there that I'm not aware of?
Also, do you want to be swishing HOT tea in your hand in the morning before you've really woken up? Sounds like a noisy recipe for disaster to me and that's assuming you can keep the ball and cup together after a couple of washings.
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11 years ago
Might as well line up the lawyers for the product recall and lawsuits for the first person that happens to somehow swallow that marble...
Reply 11 years ago
theres probably a little strainer on the bottom so the marble wont come out.
Reply 11 years ago
There better be a strainer. I'm not sure people would buy cups that choke the user.
Reply 11 years ago
show me people who buy cups that cant choke them nothing can be (and i think nothing should be) done to stop a moron from harming himself (this forum thread is old but i really dont mind)
Reply 11 years ago
True.
You should read the Darwin Awards.
Reply 11 years ago
They could probably even mold the glass toroid to keep it in place but it was more of a sarcastic remark that someone will find fault and in this day and age where everyone wants to sue, at least one "genius" will need to have warnings on the glass that the contents are hot and see if there is lead leaching out of the pigments on the marble.
Reply 11 years ago
McDonalds?
Reply 11 years ago
Gee, this looks perfect for the cupholder in the Ferrari...and for sipping on the autobahn...
Reply 11 years ago
And for choking on.
Reply 11 years ago
lol
Reply 11 years ago
. That would be funny, if it wasn't so true.
. I'm with Kiteman; very aesthetic, but not very practical. Besides, I have a bad habit of losing my marbles. :)
Reply 11 years ago
As Tetranitrate would say "I like how that glass eye at the bottom of the glass follows you around as you sip your flaming shot of sambuca or ouzo..."
11 years ago
and when you swirl it, it makes a cyclone
11 years ago
One would have to tip the glass nearly upside down to displace the ball from the groove. Rock Candy balls? Nothing makes money like selling an item that requires a consumable component.
11 years ago
I had always wanted to buy (since I got my first Edmund Scientific Catelogue) a stirrer, but we have an instructable on one :-)
magnetic stirring
11 years ago
Users gently move the cup, like you would when swirling a glass of cognac
Oh, how much more French could you get?
Actually, I like the idea, on purely aesthetic grounds. It wouldn't replace the teaspoon (how would you get the sugar into the cup in the first place?), but I think the swirling action would be quite contemplative.
Not that I take sugar in my coffee anyway. Or milk.
Reply 11 years ago
Looks like their sugar is in cube form. I usually hold my cognac from the bottom, but I get the point. Even so, it's just asking for trouble.