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Walk-In Wine Cellar Vault, Our Superhero Lair
When we want to be stronger, smarter and better looking, we just head into our secret wine cellar vault. Encapsulated in brushed aluminum, the environment is temperature and humidity controlled as our 1,500 bottles of "super juice" sit safely on the redwood racks. And given the included PC database to keep our collection straight, the only thing we're missing is a spot to sob in the fetal position under the stream of a cold shower—our special power of choice. The vault will run you $27,995; the hangover is free. Here's a look inside (we're clothed in the shot): More »
cars
Prince Charles' Modded Aston Martin Burns 4.5 Bottles of Wine Per Mile
Prince Charles has discovered the perfect use for crappy English wine: He is using it as biofuel for his classic Aston Martin DB6. The Prince converted the 38-year old car to accept ethanol to play his part in reducing carbon emissions in the UK. The wine in question is a white distilled from the excess stock of a vineyard near Swindon, Wiltshire, which has the leftover wine because of EU quota restrictions, and not because it sucks or anything. Chuck's ride gets an awfully low 10mpg, equal to 4.5bwpm (bottles of wine per mile), but it pairs nicely with his tilapia-powered subwoofer, so who's to complain? [Daily Mail via Jalopnik]
10:05 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Benny Goldman
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Latest by n/a: So the wine powers the car, where is the cheese? Oh, ha! the cheese is the Prince, that cheesy bastard more »
umbrellas
First I thought "ah... what a cute gimmick" about this Is.a.Brella thing, but then I realized the essential cleverness of the design. You're in a rush to get on the train on a rainy day: furl your Is.a.Brella, leap aboard, slide it into the bottle cover keeping it compact and tidy, and stop all those trapped raindrops from splashing onto people nearby. Neat, and pretty unusual looking too. So I get it... but what I don't get is the marketing-speak from the website, auto-translated by Google.
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Is.a.Brella Wine-Bottle Umbrella Doesn't Contain Wine, Sadly
First I thought "ah... what a cute gimmick" about this Is.a.Brella thing, but then I realized the essential cleverness of the design. You're in a rush to get on the train on a rainy day: furl your Is.a.Brella, leap aboard, slide it into the bottle cover keeping it compact and tidy, and stop all those trapped raindrops from splashing onto people nearby. Neat, and pretty unusual looking too. So I get it... but what I don't get is the marketing-speak from the website, auto-translated by Google.
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sinful
In vino peccatus... perhaps the saying should go like this, given the kind of hangover a bottle of wine can result in. And designer Kacper Hamilton might well agree. His Seven Deadly Glasses wine glasses are meant to physically represent each sin. So there's the phallic Pride glass, contrasting with the curly Greed glass—that hangs on to a few sips in its tentacles—and Sloth, which needs someone else to drip-feed you the good stuff. Check out the gallery to see the full range of designs: they're pretty intriguing.
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Seven Deadly Glasses Will Tease, Tempt You With Sinful Wine
In vino peccatus... perhaps the saying should go like this, given the kind of hangover a bottle of wine can result in. And designer Kacper Hamilton might well agree. His Seven Deadly Glasses wine glasses are meant to physically represent each sin. So there's the phallic Pride glass, contrasting with the curly Greed glass—that hangs on to a few sips in its tentacles—and Sloth, which needs someone else to drip-feed you the good stuff. Check out the gallery to see the full range of designs: they're pretty intriguing.
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nintendo
What can you get from a RC car with some wires attached and a lot of wine bottles? Drunk driving and the Mario theme, that's what. We have included the complete lyrics so you can sing along after the jump. More »
Mario Theme Played with RC Car and Wine Bottles
What can you get from a RC car with some wires attached and a lot of wine bottles? Drunk driving and the Mario theme, that's what. We have included the complete lyrics so you can sing along after the jump. More »
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Vinho Verde, a Wine Bottle with Built-In Glasses
A truly great idea, or a truly dangerous one? Perfect for oenophiles, or perfect for winos? This bottle by designer Viktor Pucsek lands smack in the middle of all those questions: it's a wine bottle with built-in "glasses." The idea of Vinho Verde is that you pop-off the portable paper cups, which also double as labels, for when you want a sip or two. It's just a concept, and I kinda hope it stays like that: I like my Portuguese green wine too much to sully it by drinking from a paper glass. [Yanko designs]
gadgets
USB Wine Gets You Digitally Drunk
Either this is a somewhat clever gag or the French have untapped the secrets of quantum space distortion, but the USB Wine dispenser plugs into your USB port and dispenses wine. It's available in three colors, inner-city tap, wine, and orange. We're not sure exactly how it works, but it seems like the thing actually holds a little bit of wine that will come out when you turn the tap. It's only 10 euros, but 10 euros can get you a lot of stuff, most of which don't wear out its welcome within a day. Oh, and apparently there's no Linux support suckas! [USBWine via Idiot Toys]
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Winos Delight in Red Wine Headache Detector
Chemists at UC Berkeley developed a device that detects the amount of biogenic amines in red wine, which are thought to be the culprit for the mind-numbing red wine headache. Though the detector is still in its prototype stages—and is currently the size of a briefcase—it only takes one drop of wine to determine the headache potential. (There might even be amine labeling on bottles one day.) Researchers are working to shrink the device to the size of a PDA and anyone who has ever suffered the effects of a couple bottles of bargain Cabernet are hopeful. Oddly enough, the technology the amine detector is based on was originally funded by NASA to try to find life on Mars. [AP via Crave]
wine drinking
Your Nose Knows the Silhouette Wine Glass Works
Winos are going to love the Silhouette, the wine glass that lets you bury your nose in that heady aroma of the vine. After all, a large percentage of the oenophile's pleasure is in the "nose" of the stuff, which means "the smell factor" to the rest of us rotgut drinkers. So go ahead, get your nose right up in there and fully enjoy the wine tasting experience. More »
home entertainment
The Supper Surround Stereo: When a Mug isn't a Mug
This concept stereo designed by Taguchi Craft, is made to blend in with your kitchen. There's currently no word on pricing, but they're scheduled to pop up around winter 2008. Might be better in a shelf in the kitchen than on the table. I'd keep trying to drink from the midbase driver or something. [Design Spotter via Technabob]
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USB Drive For Winos With Cash
This USB drive is more than its wine-shaped exterior would suggest. It's a tool for the hardcore wine enthusiast. Features include; 1GB of memory, wine related ringtones (eh?), desktop wallpaper, a screensaver, a wine tasting demo by Michel Rolland (who?), and privileged access to the BeWineConnected Club. The most interesting feature however, is the inclusion of the wine cellar management software "Open Cellar" that allows wine lovers to manage their collection from any computer. If you think that all of this may be a little excessive, I agree. Then again, I don't have the cash to buy and stock a cellar, and Miller Light gets me drunk just fine. Available for around $50 [BeWine via Apartment Therapy]
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Microsoft's Blue Monster Reserve label is a wine expressly made for their employees and potential clients, allowing them to get hammered, but in a Microsoft way. We're not sure how getting drunk off our balls promotes innovation, which is their goal, but maybe we just weren't drunk enough. Microsoft drunk, if you will. How else do you explain Bob?
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Microsoft Blue Monster Wine Reminds Us of BSOD
Microsoft's Blue Monster Reserve label is a wine expressly made for their employees and potential clients, allowing them to get hammered, but in a Microsoft way. We're not sure how getting drunk off our balls promotes innovation, which is their goal, but maybe we just weren't drunk enough. Microsoft drunk, if you will. How else do you explain Bob?
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rfid
ThingM's WineM is one part intelligent wine rack, one part light show. This concept, currently on display at NextFest, works by taking bottles of wine tagged with RFID stickers and placing them onto the rack. Now if you're having Lamb Shank for dinner and want a decent Shiraz, just input into the computer that you want a Shiraz over $50, then WineM automatically lights up each bottle of wine that fits the description.
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WineM RFID Wine Rack at NextFest
ThingM's WineM is one part intelligent wine rack, one part light show. This concept, currently on display at NextFest, works by taking bottles of wine tagged with RFID stickers and placing them onto the rack. Now if you're having Lamb Shank for dinner and want a decent Shiraz, just input into the computer that you want a Shiraz over $50, then WineM automatically lights up each bottle of wine that fits the description.
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wino to the max
Many of our oenophile readers will dig this Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter, a gorgeous crystal vessel that will embrace your prized vintages in complete elegance. Now we can stop drinking that rotgut straight from the bottle, and maybe pour it into a glass or two. Or we could still quaff it straight from this curvaceous container, which resembles a Spanish porrón, spilling out a thin jet of wine for oodles of hands-free, group-drinking fun. But this carafe is much too swank for such vulgar activities.
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Get Drunk Mozart-Style with the Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter
Many of our oenophile readers will dig this Riedel Amadeo Lyra Decanter, a gorgeous crystal vessel that will embrace your prized vintages in complete elegance. Now we can stop drinking that rotgut straight from the bottle, and maybe pour it into a glass or two. Or we could still quaff it straight from this curvaceous container, which resembles a Spanish porrón, spilling out a thin jet of wine for oodles of hands-free, group-drinking fun. But this carafe is much too swank for such vulgar activities.
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boozetech
Ultra Seven Wine Set
Enough wine may feel like it's given you superpowers, but trust us, it has not. However, the Ultra Seven 40th Anniversary Wine Set brings us one step closer to realizing our overconfidence. Once just an ordinary merlot, when packaged with Koji "Ultra Seven" Moritsugu signature stemware it becomes ULTRA SEVEN!! (wine). At $82, the (surprisingly classy) wine set will be the perfect gift for the chic geek when it comes out this September. Just prepare to import it, or make a friend in Japan bring you one back. (*cough* Matt Buchanan, Brian Ashcraft, ok, that's everyone I know *cough*) [altjapan via plasticbamboo]
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Okay, fellow winos, get a pair of these Wine Wedges and you can pile up enough bottles for this weekend, building a triangular mountain of them just like a stack of cannonballs. It makes us feel drunk just thinking about it.
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Wine Wedge Eschews Wussy Wine Racks
Okay, fellow winos, get a pair of these Wine Wedges and you can pile up enough bottles for this weekend, building a triangular mountain of them just like a stack of cannonballs. It makes us feel drunk just thinking about it.
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Here in Illinois, our ability to order wine from our favorite producers will soon be a thing of the past, outlawed to empower the confusing regional alcohol industry. That's why "home brewing" wine through the Oenophile's Personal Winery is so attractive. You order legal crushed, frozen grapes from the region of your choosing, and it does the rest.
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Oenophile's Personal Winery
Here in Illinois, our ability to order wine from our favorite producers will soon be a thing of the past, outlawed to empower the confusing regional alcohol industry. That's why "home brewing" wine through the Oenophile's Personal Winery is so attractive. You order legal crushed, frozen grapes from the region of your choosing, and it does the rest.
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