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An Empty Bottle Gets A New Purpose In Life
What good is an empty discarded glass bottle? It only deserves to go back to the recycle bin! NOOO! Wait, don’t give up as yet, invert it over the “Re:fill Chime Bell And Lights” and see it dazzle on your restaurant table! The concept is this: you’re in the restaurant waiting for the waiter to show up to take your order, frantic waving and subtle gestures aren’t working. Use this ingenious gadget to attract the guy’s attention: order = pink light; water = blue light and bill = green light. Sneaky me is never gonna hit the bill button!
Designer: Doyeop Kim
35 Comments »
Lamah says
The principle is sound – give customers a nice easy way of signalling for attention. But if I saw something that outlandish on my desk I’d never guess what it was for, I think I’d be afraid to touch it!
Edifier says
It’s funny.
moburkhardt says
flaws: Dark beer bottles wont reflect light properly
The remaining liquid in the bottle(and there will be unless you have it dry for 4 hours) will run down the bottle neck and either flow into the holes that emit the light, or get stuck by the lamp until you pull the bottle of at whic point it will flow all the way to the buttons making them sticky and potntially breaking the internal electronics.
Luke says
Why would you use a dark bottle, why would you not clean the bottle, and why would this not be sufficiently well sealed?
Moburkhardt says
Well I asume this is intended to save bottles so you would want to drink a beer and then take the bottle and stick it on there so then there would be no way to clean the bottle before putting it on there and even of it’s sealed it would still be sticky.
Luke says
This is a decorative fixture. The patron doesn’t put the bottle on the device. That’s just plain unhygenic.
Getting the bottle on would be really simple. Waiter pick up the bottle, pot scrubber cleans out the bottle, bottle goes on the platter. The bottle doesn’t even need to be filled with anything for the light to work.
Really, this concept is about as straightforward as they get. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand it.
moburkhardt says
but then why use a bottle?
Luke says
Same reason you’d make a chandelier out of beer bottles.
Kitsch.
Eric Foor says
It’s cool but there’s no real point considering the restaurant owner could just put lights above the table. You also have to consider that if the bottle fell off, it could break. People could possibly get cut from the broken glass as well.
Luke says
That’s like saying wine glasses have no place in a restaurant, because broken glass might injure the patrons.
Me Here says
Wine glasses serve a function that can’t really be done in a different way while maintaining a concept of being attached to any kind of tradition properly Luke, so really it’s not anything like wine glasses.
This is some dumb, trash on your table, kitsch. You could have some prosthetic ass above the table fart out Morse code too, but that’s not quite the point.
If you have to push a button to signal someone, how good of care are they taking of you and what kind of gratuity should be expected? Hell, why signal anybody that you need anything? Go to McDonalds with a prostitute and call it a night.
This is the hands-down dumbest idea I’ve seen in a long while.
Lisa says
I have actually seen very similar lights before. Of course they weren’t color coded. We had a what looked like a candle holder with a built in lighting fixture that was attached to a button. This button was used to click for clapping after entertainment performed by repeatedly clicking it and also to call the waitresses in between acts by just leaving it on.
Luke says
Can’t say I think this would be particularly tasteful, but the basic idea is a pretty sound one, in my opinion.
zippyflounder says
very unstable, one jiggle and whammo
Luke says
Can’t be any more unstable than a wine glass or a flower vase. One would only need to be sure the base is heavy enough.
zippyflounder says
IF the bottle is attached to the base mechanically. If its loose then you have a very unstable item.
42 says
Actually, no. if you look at the length of the prong, and the diameter of the mouth of the bottle, there is little chance of it falling off so easily. Sure it may be a bit askew but other than that, the bottle itself is perfectly safe.
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Christine says
I really like the idea of having some sort of colour coded light fixture to get a server’s attention, waving our hands in the air for 5 minutes just doesn’t work. The concept is great, but the beer bottle design is horrible.
Molasses Fatts says
I would steal that if i saw that at an applebees.
Paula says
This is just rude. If the server is not coming to your table, it’s because she/he is busy. People need to stop being so needy and realize that they are not the only customers in the whole restaurant. If you are that pathetic that you can’t wait 3min to put in your order and need the server’s full attention, then rent out the whole restaurant for yourself.
tommy says
OK I still remember El Chico Mexican restaurant where they had the little flag you ran up the pole if you needed the server.
El Chico
A Mexican food tradition since 1940 has grown
into more than 75 restaurants, including more than
25 franchise locations. The El Chico story began
when Adelaida Cuellar’s homemade tamales drew
huge crowds at a small county fair in 1926. Her sons opened a cafe in Dallas, following their mother’s recipes for enchiladas with chile con carne sauce. Today, El Chico is still serving top-quality Mexican food favorites with fresh new specialties of today.
robb says
i think i’ll focus more on the light than my food for the whole dinner.
awesome.
Me Here says
Your current date will have no chance of becoming your boyfriend then.
Are you kidding me?
Julius Lim says
Kim , i kinda like your idea on this. Cos me myself , I have thought of sumthing like this either. Well , sum restaurants are darn busy and noisy , and u wouldnt want to shout and raise your hand like monkey to ask for attention. SUmthing like this is very useful. Hm.. i think putting it at a more significant places will be much better!
Bobby says
recycling objects that are mere wastes …
PET and glass bottles … nice idea
Chris Ronk says
Pretty cool idea. But do you really need the bottle to make this work?
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