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SipSup Social Drinking Glass Saves the Party’s Best Moments

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With the launch of the world’s first social drinking glass, connected glassware is about to become a thing. SipSup won’t share any details about the beverage you’re enjoying, but it will save photos from the attendees’ smartphones.

Mind you, SipSup doesn’t only store the photos, but it also facilitates sharing them to other smartphones. On top of that, the social drinking glass (as its Slovenian developers like to call it) doubles as a photo album, so you can watch the party’s best moments even if your friends are long gone.

The social drinking glass may have been designed by the eponymous startup, but it’s Slovenian glassworks company Steklarna Hrastnik who is manufacturing it. The quality is attested by a Vitrux certificate that guarantees that SipSup is dishwasher safe up to 3,000 times.

I only wish the glass came in different sizes. I’m sure that’s possible, but probably the developers wanted to see first how beer and juice lovers feel about SipSup. I definitely wouldn’t recommend drinking wine or spirits in such a high-capacity glass. After all, this social glass is only dishwasher safe, not shatterproof, something that people might want to test after ingesting such alcoholic drinks.

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Since it is a connected device we’re talking about, it has to come with a companion app. According to the developers, the app will be available for both Android and iOS devices (it looks like Windows Phone users are not getting any love, but given the market share of that mobile OS, it’s quite understandable). As for how the glasses connected to smartphones, NFC and visual IDs were used.

SipSup is currently the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, where its developers are looking to raise $30,000, so that the connected drinking glass makes the jump from a concept to mass production. At the time of writing, backers had pledged $2,104, but there were 31 more days to go, and with some proper support, SipSup could become a reality. The awards range from virtual cheers to SipSup glasses (which cost $22 or $40 for early birds, and $25 or $50 for regular backers, depending on whether you want one or two glasses), to ten customized glasses and a trip to Slovenia to meet the team behind all of this. For that you’d have to spend $4K and get your plane tickets.

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Wearing Google Glass In a Cinema Could Get You Thrown Out

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Amidst fears of piracy, two theatre chains in America have banned Google Glass from their screens, forbidding customers from wearing it.

‘It’s in the name of fashion’, ‘I have a prescription’, ‘I just wanted to look cool, funky and fresh during my time at the movie theatre’ – these are all excuses that just won’t fly when you show up to the movie theatre in a pair of Google’s hi-tech glasses as despite your perfectly innocent and perhaps entirely valid reasons for wearing them there, you still risk being thrown out. It seems like a slightly extreme punishment but the movie theatres are just protecting the skin on their well-flushed with money backs as Google Glass’ use as an on-the-face recorder that could also see it turned into the perfect device for recording films off the screen and shopping them about online or on discs for a profit.

Two movie theatre chains to realise this are AMC and Alamo Drafthouse. AMC just booted one guy from the screening of a movie based on their suspicions (he actually wasn’t recording anything with Google Glass, but AMC’s policy is apparently guilty until innocent) while Alamo has at least issued a forewarning to explain that in its theatres (it operates in five states) once the lights dim before the movie you’ll need to take your pair of Google Glass off but you’ll be able to put them right back on when the lights go back up or if you have to head out of the screening to bag a box of popcorn or make a quick dash to the bathroom, which seems fair.

Although the decision is down to security, which seems understandable, perhaps neither company has considered that Google Glass just isn’t made for recording over long periods of time (such as a 90 minute feature length movie) as after about 30 minutes of recording the device simply just runs out of battery. That detail comes from Google itself so whether we’ll see some sort of statement from them on the theatre’s Glass-banning is yet to be seen.

Source: CNET

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