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An ice cube mold that freezes ice in the shape of six-sided dice.
Why, you say? Well, it's not just a pun. You can drop a few d'ice
cubes into your drink and see which sides come up. Maybe use it
for an innocent game of craps, or make loaded d'ice with air
bubbles in one side.
4, 8, 10, and
12-sided gamer editions are also available.
http://www.oneinhun...ce-cube--265657.htm
[leinypoo13, Jan 29 2010]
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Loaded? That's just cold. |
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As to link: The difference is that those cubes are a) bought
packaged and b) nothing I would ever want in my drink. This
idea refers to a mold (or mould) and water without LEDs or
plastic. |
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Link is definitely not this idea. But a problem might be that the dots would rapidly disappear in the drink, as you would have to make them fairly shallow so you could get the dice out of the tray. |
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The mold could be in more than two pieces, like
some plaster molds used for slipcasting ceramics. Or
it could have side-actions, like injection molds for
plastic. |
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Instead of freezing water in dice shaped molds, perhaps you should build a machine which starts with cube shaped pieces of ice, and carves/drills out the dots. |
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This would allow creation of deeper dots than a mold. |
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As an added feature, we could chill the carved dice significantly below water's freezing point, then spray colored water into the dots, where it will instantly freeze. This would improve the balance of the d'ice, making the six faces closer to being equally likely. |
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Yet another option might be to use a 3D printer to create the d'ice. |
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<rattles drink and gives a look> |
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white/black food-colouring might work (though it'd give a different "feel" to the product)... quite a bit of work and you might be able to get the dice to shrink proportionately, ie: retain the cube shape as it melts. |
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You could do this with molds if you had two mirror stacked pieces. |
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1) the bottom half were diamond shaped parts of dice 1,3,5 |
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2)the top half(2,4,6), also diamond shaped was detachable from the bottom half (needs water tight seal gasket for each dice cube) and had a hole in it to pour water into |
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3) if the hole at the top was rubber and slightly funnel shaped, it could serve as a way to |
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a)pour the water in
b) snap the ice "stem" from the hole so you could have some dice |
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Just snap ice stems, separate top from bottom and presto, no engineering required. |
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Would be an interesting alternative to our Lego-block-shaped ice cubes. |
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