This is a clever way to think of drinking activities, very whimsical and pleasant form. But please, do not call this a “revolution”. It is not revolutionizing the way we drink, it isnt even really changing it, just maybe improving the grip on it (not that there’s a huge problem with slipping glasses at bars and whatnot). So yes, its cool, but calling these visual and whimsical exercises as “revolutionary” or “innovative” makes the design world look fuzzy and flip floppy, and its slightly degrading to the profession.

my 2 cents.

I have to kind of agree with the previous poster in that these glasses are interesting and inventive, but perhaps not “revolutionary” in terms of a drinking container form. I suppose one could say that it’s a revolutionary way of looking at the concept of a handle, but I don’t see that it would change “the drinking experience” of ingesting liquid very much.

The biggest problem I have with this design is that this form of handle wouldn’t work with hot beverages. The point of a handle on a coffee mug is to protect the hand from the heat of the beverage. Since chilled drinks represent no threat to the hand holding them, most tumblers lack handles of any sort. A glass like this – where the hand has even more contact with the beverage than it would with a normal tumbler – would obviously be totally unsutiable for heated beverages, and not only is a handle unneeded for a drink that’s chilled, this design would maximize the contact between the hand and the beverage container , increasing the speed at which the user’s body heat warmed the drink.

It’s an intriguing thought exercise, and future iterations might yield interesting results, but the current form is actually worse at doing what it’s supposed to do than the original object that it’s trying to “fix.”

I don’t really buy that, Jackson. It’s not like the thing wraps around your entire hand. Looking at the photo, I don’t see the design significantly increasing the “surface area to hand ratio”. Then again, I also didn’t spend 3 paragraphs ripping apart a post that in the end is pretty cool.

j – you’re wrong. they are revolutionary. i could pound mad Jaeger with these joints!!!

B Starr –

Did you go and take a look at the other glass designs on the site? One of them has the handle going all the way through the glass.
As far as not buying my critique about the design’s functionality, you have to admit that this wouldn’t work for heated beverages, and for cold beverages you’re just adding a handle to a glass that doesn’t particularly need one. That said, they look really damned cool and it’s an interesting idea. Just because I have some criticism about the object’s functionality doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the form.

I see this as being kind of like Starck’s juicer – it may not be the best at what it does, but at least it looks good while it’s dong it.