Soda Can Covers Hide Your Beer

Keep your alcoholism to yourself with these nifty beer can covers that make your beer look like a soda. These reusable covers wrap around your beer can so that you can keep drinking without anyone suspecting a thing – unless you are obviously drunk, of course.
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They’re made by cutting open actual aluminum soda cans, then carefully cutting off the tops and sanding all the sharp edges so you don’t slice your fingers off. They have several styles available. The important thing is that none of them look like a beer.

People don’t appreciate you drinking your booze everywhere, so just go undercover. Now you can really have a Coke and a smile. That guy sure looks happy drinking that soda. So happy he can’t walk. And he keeps running to the bathroom too.

You can find the Hide-a-Beer Soda Can Covers over on eBay.

[via This is why I'm broke]

The Tilt Effect

What makes the Tilt It, the watering can stand out is its diagonal base. This kind of orientation makes it easier to pour out the water with less lifting. Essentially a lot of wrist work is required and pouring out the last of the water from a traditional flat-bottomed watering can cause a strain. Hit the jump for the details.

  • Pouring from a traditional can requires the user the lift and tilt it to ninety degrees. There is a need to lift one’s arm quite high and bend the wrists considerably.
  • Tilt It, on the other hand, has a ‘diagonal’ base.
  • When Tilt It is held ‘vertically’ by its top handle, the water inside naturally flows to the lowest point of the diagonal, near the base of the spout.
  • This means that less tilting is required by the gardener in order to pour the water out. One needn’t lift their arms so high.
  • When Tilt It is placed on the floor, its diagonal base causes it to tilt backwards. The top handle sits at an angle, which allows it to be grasped more comfortably.

Tilt It is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Winner.

Designers: Choi Hyunchul, Prof. Doh Han Young & Kim SooHwan

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For The Sake Of Painters

I don’t paint and have never used a paint can in my life. But that doesn’t mean innovation for paint cans should stop. In fact this Easy Ring design can be used for any standard can. Physics, pressure techniques and a lot of clever thinking makes this a very intriguing design. What do you think?

Designer: Dongsung Jung, Gyuenhwan Kwon & Hyosang Pak

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Christmas Tinner Puts an Entire Christmas Dinner into a Single Can

If Willy Wonka suddenly decided to move out of the candy making business into the canned foods business, Christmas Tinner would be a product he would make. Perhaps inspired by Christopher Godfrey’s 12-course meal in a can, Christmas Tinner is a complete canned meal made by UK gaming firm GAME. Inside the can you will find an entire layered Christmas dinner.

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The layers include scrambled eggs and bacon in the first, followed by a pair of minced pies in the second layer. The third layer is turkey and potatoes with gravy in the next layer. The fifth layer has bread sauce and layer six is cranberry sauce. Layer seven is brussel sprouts with stuffing or broccoli with stuffing. I assume this is what we would have as cornbread stuffing in the US. Layer eight is roast carrots and parsnips, with the final layer, number nine, being Christmas pudding.

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While I’m sure it would all be quite tasty served in the traditional method, it all sounds pretty disgusting in canned form.

[via OTL Gaming and Laughing Squid]

iCan

The flip-top soda can has remained unchanged for decades, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t improvements to be made! The iCan explores new solutions for spilling prevention, keeping carbonation fresh and eliminating harmful bacteria with an aluminum twist top that uses a similar amount of material as the classic tab. Gotta see the vid to see how it works!

Designer: Rocky Bettis & Brian Bettis

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Not-so-Fine Dining at Its Worst? 12-Course Meal in a Can

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Are you so hungry that you could eat a horse? Yeah, I’m sure you’ve felt that way at least a couple of times already in your life. So what happened next? In my case, I usually sit down and have a really big meal, only to feel incredibly nauseous by the time I’m done. I’ve never had a 12-course meal though and I don’t plan to try one soon, but if you’re up to it, then you might want to try All In One.

It’s a 12-course-meal-in-a-can made by design student Christopher Godfrey. It’s essentially a feast that you can eat, straight from the can.

The full course includes:

  • A selection of local cheeses with sourdough
  • Pickled Kobe beef with charred strawberry
  • Ricotta ravioli with a soft egg yolk
  • Shiitake mushroom topped with filled peppers
  • Halibut poached in truffle butter in a coconut crepe
  • Risotto-foraged ramps, prosciutto, and fresh parmesan
  • French onion soup with fresh thyme and gruyere cheese
  • Roast pork belly and celeriac root puree
  • Palate cleanser, pear ginger juice
  • Rib eye steak with grilled mustard greens
  • Crack pie with milk ice cream on a vanilla tuile
  • French canele with a malt barley and hazelnut latte

Everything’s all mushed up though, so I’m not sure it’s the most appetizing thing on the planet. All In One was created as part of Godrey’s graphic design dissertation. He explains: “Contemporary culture means on every trip into town, you’re bombarded with gimmicks galore. Gimmicks often diminish their products to turn a profit, downgrading on the content but selling you something that’s ’50 percent more.’ The All in One 12-course meal offers the average Joe the chance to dine like royalty without the washing up.”

VIA [ C|NET ]

Gourmet Dining on the Go: 12-Course Meal in a Can

Have you ever had a 12-course meal? The most I’ve had was eight, and I had a hard enough time keeping everything down by the end of the night. However, being too full isn’t a problem with the 12-Course Meal in a Can, for obvious reasons.

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Basically, what you get is what you see. All twelve courses have been mushed and pulverized before being packed into a tight layer into the can. Here’s a list of all twelve courses:

  • Selection of local cheeses with sourdough bread
  • Pickled kobe beef with charred strawberry
  • Ricotta ravioli with a soft egg yolk
  • Shitake mushroom topped with filled peppers
  • Halibut poached in truffle butter in a coconut crepe
  • Risotto with foraged ramps, prosciutto and fresh parmesan
  • French onion soup with fresh thyme and gruyere cheese
  • Roast pork belly and celeriac root puree
  • Palate cleanser: pear ginger juice
  • Rib eye steak with grilled mustard greens
  • Crack pie with milk ice cream on a vanilla tuile
  • French canele with a malt barley and hazelnut latte

To be honest, the whole thing looks like some weird, multi-colored meatloaf that went bad a few years ago. But hey, this is as fancy and compact as a 12-course meal can get.

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The whole thing was a project by designer Christopher Godfrey, who wanted make a statement about gimmicks in contemporary culture. What do you think? Would you eat this stuff?

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[via Geekologie and Foodbeast]

Canned Dragon Meat: The Other Other White Meat

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So what do you want to eat today? Dine like a medieval knight with some Canned Dragon Meat Canned Dragon Meat: The Other Other White Meat, part of your nutritious breakfast. This “meat” comes from Radiant Farms, proprietors of such fine foods as Canned Unicorn Meat. Each can of dragon meat has 100% of your recommended daily allowance of magic, rage, inferno, and destruction. But don’t try to eat it because it’s really (spoiler alert!) a stuffed dragon head. Sir Lancelot is disappoint.
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Canned Dragon Meat: The Other Other White Meat

Coca-Cola Sharing Can Aims for Social Soda Drinking

In keeping with one of Coca-Cola’s slogans, this concept can allows soda drinkers to literally “share the happiness.” Coca-Cola has always been pretty creative with their ad campaigns (remember the ‘Open Happiness’ vending machine?) and they continue the trend with the Sharing Can.

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The idea for the cans originated from ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Singapore. Basically, Sharing Cans are soda cans that can be split into two with a quick twist. You can keep one for yourself and hand the other off to your friend, your sister, or some random stranger who looks like they could use a cold drink. As an added bonus, you’ll cut your calorie consumption in half.

You can see how it works in the clip below.

Pretty awesome, huh? The Sharing Cans are currently being handed out by the ‘Happiness Truck’ to passersby in Singapore. It’s highly unlikely that Coke will make and sell these commercially, but here’s to hoping.

[via C|NET]

Budweiser Releasing Bowtie Shaped Cans: the 11th Doctor Rejoices

For some reason – probably because they are all closet Doctor Who fans – Budweiser has decided to introduce a bow-tie shaped can. Drunks everywhere are suddenly feeling all classy.

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The company has been developing the can since 2010 and has made major equipment investments at its can-making facility in Newburgh to make the 16-step process to create the cans better.

But why make a weird shaped can and go through all of the trouble? Well, this new can holds 11.3 ounces of beer, compared with the traditional 12-ounce can. If enough suckers buy this they will probably eventually save millions by offering 0.7 ounces less for the same price. The company says the new can won’t replace the traditional Budweiser can, but I’m sure that if they have enough sales, they would love to sell you fewer ounces of beer.

The new bow tie cans will be available in a special 8-pack nationwide starting May 6.

[via Geekologie]