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This Fruit-Flavoured Cup Tricks Your Brain Into Thinking Your Water Is Sweet

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Obesity is rampant, and sugary drinks play a huge part in this epidemic. You can replace sugar with artificial sweeteners, but some people will tell you they’re bad for you (we don’t believe this), or maybe you don’t like the way they make your liquids taste. Well, there’s another option. The Right Cup is a regular drinking vessel that’s had fruit flavours baked right into the material its made of. This way you can drink plain water while smelling sweet aromas, and trick your brain into thinking you’re drinking something sweet; 80% of what you taste comes through your nose anyway, which is why you don’t taste a thing when your nose is blocked. Considering it’s a $25 pledge for one, and the smell will allegedly last up to 6 months, we say it’s a worthwhile purchase.

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Medicine Dispensing Sippy Cups

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Getting your child to swallow a dose of cough syrup can be an exercise in patience, if not in futility. But when brute force doesn’t work, maybe cunning can overcome. The Medicine Dispensing Sippy Cup camouflages a sealed-off inner cup to keep the medicine and the fruit juice (or whatever) chaser separate, until the child actually drinks it all. There are ml and tsp calibration markings for easy measuring of medication, and the whole thing is of course BPS-free and dishwasher safe. It’s $4!

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Coffee Talk

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The Conversation is a collection of 8 mugs that aims to inspire just that! The series explores and encourages a dialectic in regards to design. Each has is printed with a thought-provoking statement that will get your wheels turning in the morning. While you ponder the statement, its “missing” handle will also get you thinking about our preconceptions as to what design is and should be!

Designer: Fdn Studiolab

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Eco-Friendly Coffee Cups Can Be Planted After Use

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We’re pretty efficient at destroying the planet, so it’s nice to see an ever growing consortium of people doing their damnedest to slow the pace at which we bury ourselves in our own filth. The latest effort we’ve come across involves coffee cups, which Americans throw out at the rate of 146 million a year (and that number seems low, to be honest). The “Reduce. Reuse. Grow.” cups are made from 100% post-consumer recycled paper and have had tree seeds embedded in them. This means after you’re done drinking your cup of Joe, you can soak them in water for 5 minutes, and then just plant them; the type of tree that grows out is printed on the front. And even if you don’t go through the effort of planting them, the will biodegrade after just 180 days so your conscience can be just a little clearer.

Granted, their effectiveness will be determined by their adoption rate at coffee shops nationwide, but you can help by donating to the project. Although you won’t get any cups until you donate $500 or more (and then you just get a “framed and singed 1st edition cup), you can jump in with as little as $1.

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Alien Pint Glasses Look Like Old School Collectables

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I can remember growing up when The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters; Burger King had this promotion where you could get awesome collectible glasses for fans of the flick. I hated the food, but I wanted all those tumblers about as much as juvenile me ever wanted anything. Naturally, I broke them all in short order, but they were cool while they lasted.

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These Alien Pint glasses come in a set of four and they have the same sort of artwork that I remember from those collectable glasses in the ’70s and ’80s. On the back of the glasses are details about the alien life cycle, and apparently the box has egg shaped cutouts. Each cup holds 16 ounces and are 5.75″ tall. The four designs include The Space Jockey, the Alien, Kane’s Chestburster, Ripley & the Airlock.

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You don’t have to go eat terrible hamburgers to get these either; all you need to do is plunk down your $29.99 and get all four at ThinkGeek.

Alien Pint Glasses Look Like Old School Collectables

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I can remember growing up when The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters; Burger King had this promotion where you could get awesome collectible glasses for fans of the flick. I hated the food, but I wanted all those tumblers about as much as juvenile me ever wanted anything. Naturally, I broke them all in short order, but they were cool while they lasted.

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These Alien Pint glasses come in a set of four and they have the same sort of artwork that I remember from those collectable glasses in the ’70s and ’80s. On the back of the glasses are details about the alien life cycle, and apparently the box has egg shaped cutouts. Each cup holds 16 ounces and are 5.75″ tall. The four designs include The Space Jockey, the Alien, Kane’s Chestburster, Ripley & the Airlock.

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You don’t have to go eat terrible hamburgers to get these either; all you need to do is plunk down your $29.99 and get all four at ThinkGeek.

Butterfinger Cups Add Peanut Butter for Super Bowl

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Taste buds are being tantalized via a new eatable that Nestle is planning to bring to supermarket shelves. The usual fare consisting of Butterfinger Cups is to arrive in the form of Peanut Butter...
    






3-D printing set to break out of niche

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3-D printing set to break out of niche, into mouths (candy) and onto fingers (diamond rings) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Some of the oddest items on display this week at International CES gadget...
    






Straw Cup Phone Holder

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Just because you’re taking a drink doesn’t mean you have to take your eyes off your phone for even one split second with the Cell Phone Holder Party Cup. Just slip your phone into the straw holder and slurp up a drink from the double-walled BPA-free plastic tumbler. Holds 16 ounces of your favorite beverage and multitasks at it’s finest (or worst).

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Smart Lids Change Color When Contents Are Too Hot

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Taking a tiny sip of a piping hot drink is the usual way to figure out its temperature. That, or feeling the cup with your hands, but that can be hard with some materials. The Smart Lid hopes to give you a visual cue, informing you of the drink’s temperature before you use your own body as a thermometer. It turns red when the contents are at 120°F (48°C) or above, which seems like an appropriate middle ground. The lids come in packs of 1,000 of either the lid alone, or the lid with a 8oz or 12oz cup, with prices starting as low as $62. Clearly restaurants will have more use for this, but there is a 40 lid/cup pack for $30 that you may be tempted to use at home.

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