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Future Cup Alert! It has the V Shape.
Has this ever happened to you? *Cup ring on nose*
Well me too! Always with the cup ring on the nose from the wanting to get the liquid out of the cup. And not only that, designer AMINATION (aka Amin Saadat), has got a thing or two to say about all the “fats and bacteria from the edge of the glass.”
It’s the “Unose.” The “V” shape is just magic. As you can see, it totally works magic by way of physics. I don’t know that there’s a huge problem with germs on the ring of cups that needs to be solved, but cup tipping: there’s a worldwide pan-epidemic.
Tip up your cups! Just a little bit less.
Designer: Amination, aka Amin Saadat
24 Comments »
Eric says
Ya not to sure about the germ thing on the rim either. Why drink from a cup with known germs on it’s rim? It’s nothing new, and you refill more often too since it doesn’t hold as much. Which would bother me more than the cup covering my nose and giving me ‘ring nose’ .01% of the time. Looks like a cool glass though don’t get me wrong, especially with a fun colored drink in it!
amination says
thanks Eric 4 review
but i must say:
i live at east . here more people have big nose
which alternating toch the rim.
of course if who want to drinking fully !!
Carl says
but i have a neck that works…?
jack says
then you can get a regular cup
Paul Joseph says
Its a bit impractical because one would have to have 2-3 helpings. And if it’s made of glass it would be heavy.I don’t recall when last the rim touched my nose when I drank something. Nevertheless its a worthwhile thought
Henrique Staino says
I was thinking about this issue a few weeks ago. A much simpler solution would be a glass with an angled upper rim. You would still tilt the glass as much as you do with a regular one, but nothing would touch your nose, and you save your neck too.
No mention to the fact that it would be lighter and much cheaper.
Luke says
Yeah, but then you wouldn’t be able to fill it to the brim.
Luke says
If germs are such a concern, an antimicrobial coating would go much further than fiddling with the cup’s shape.
Which brings me to the shape. Why the chubby walls? Waste of material if you ask me. Can’t it just be a cone-shaped glass? Similarly, if you don’t want it touching your nose, can’t it just be a narrower cylinder?
Pardon my negativity, but I really can’t wrap my head around an attempt at redesigning something so simple and with so many permutations as a cup or a glass.
Hammerhead says
Wouldn’t a straw solve this problem for those who really care? Cool looking design, poor reasoning.
Andy Zhang says
Is anyone concerned with it’s unstackability?
IKEA has had cups for years that are slightly angled on the side, which make them both stackable, and it doesnt need to be tilted 90° for everything to flow out
Andy Zhang says
when I say “it’s” i mean “its”
MadCow says
USE A FREAKIN’ STRAW!
Keith says
Solo(R) cups have already solved this problem. They are larger at the top and smaller at the bottom, which gives you the same effect.
paul sandip says
chootia kyun bana raha hai bhai?
Carl says
solved the problem, what problem?
amination says
this is a general experience when you try to drink some thing with glass ,your nose feel edge of glass! because
every one wants to drink completely ! and with this terrible touch fats and bacterias on your nose distribute on edge of glass
so who can change general habit?
but glass form is changeable easily!!!
i solved this problem in easy way , how? :
if you give a certain angle in interior end part of glass like ” V ” this problem never done any more
as the pictures you can see when your drink receive to end part of glass (its near to finish!!!) you dont need to rise
your hand like past
because interior angle is different with exterior one meaning you will finish it without rise angle of glass to horizontal line
so your nose never touch edge of glass
higui says
cool … we really need creative product design in 2009!
Phil says
The CAD looks like the lower ‘new’ cup has just not been tipped as far back as the normal glass.
amination says
please see full entry :
http://fc20.deviantart.com/fs41/f/2009/018/d/0/UNOSE_glass_by_a_MINATIOn.jpg
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