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Ice container glass..Glass with ice container

Glass with ice container.
The other day we posted on the wine cooling staff from Leopold (below), we found on Formex recently. The staff is cooled and then placed inside a bottle of (preferably) white wine and chills the contents without diluting the wine. Here's a similar invention, only with a polycarbonate beer glass. The idea is you fill the tube with ice and water, plug it, and insert it into the glass. The ice will then chill the beverage without diluting it. The ice glass is available from Sporty's and will set you back USD 12:- for two. Via Book of Joe. What Joe did not mention, however, is that there is also a pitcher with a similar ice container available at the same place for USD 17:50 a piece to make your ice chilled beer kit complete.

10 September 2006



Coffee filter holder from Danish Brix

Coffee filter holder.
Well, sure the coffee filter sometimes collapses inward and cause coffee grounds to spill into the brew. And sure, such occurrences does tend to make the whole morning a bit cloudy. So if they could be avoided, sure something would be won. Enter the patented FilterFix coffee filter holder, to ensures that nothing is allowed to cloud your morning brew, at least not coffee grounds. It's made of polished stainless steel and we found it on the Danish Brix Design website.

9 September 2006



TMP collector for old newspapers
Old newspaper collection cage.
Old newspaper collection device. Could be pretty smart with strings underneath, so the pack of old papers can be tied up and easily brought to the recycling station. The thing is JPY 3,390:- (about USD 30:-) on Japanese Rakuten. From Swiss TMP and designed by Willi Glaeser. There's also a miniature version for calling cards(!) Should be available somewhere closer to home than Japan, but we have not found any... Via Zakkaz.

7 September 2006



Formex designmässan

The cooling staff from Leopold
Wine bottle cooling staff.
This is something we've never seen before. That does not mean this idea is new, although that may well be the case, it just means we've never seen it before. But to the point. The cooling staff (A) is frozen in the freezer inside its protective cover (B). When the frozen staff (A) is inserted into a bottle of (white) wine it chills the wine without diluting it. The O-rings make sure there's a tight fit. While the cooling staff is in the bottle of wine, you may serve chilled (white) wine by removing the bottle stop (C). The cooling staff comes from Leopold and according to distributor Frelina Pring at Formex recently, this is supposed to work better than external wine coolers.

6 September 2006



The Formex design and housewares exhibition

Smart openers for PET bottles, ordinary bottles, and glass jars
New openers for cans and bottles.
The product series Öppna is still in the prototype stage, but the stuff looks so promising, we'll do a post on them anyway. Entrepreneurs Anneli Liikane and Karin Älmeby from Halmstad in the south of Sweden has decided to go all in with their smart products that incorporate both ergonomics and design in the concept. The products in the first line-up are (from the left) a combination opener for PET- and regular bottles with a twister for soda- and beer cans; opener for PET bottles and opener for glass jars with a vacuum twister and a gripping pad with enormous friction. Product designer is Åsa Lennartsson and graphic designer is Georg Bondeson. From Addxtra.

5 September 2006



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