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Lava Glass
Surround your drink with dancing blobs. | |
Since the inspiration for the lava lamp was at a pub, it would seem suitable to have lava glasses or beer mugs at a pub or disco. Picture a San Francisco with green, moving bubbles, a café latte inside bouncing, black blobs or a Guinness surrounded by excited, beige balls.
The basic design would
be a double walled glass to contain the lava liquids with insulation (third wall?) from a cold drink and a light and heat source via induction. On the tables and on or behind the bar would be induction points for powering the lava glasses. Even the empty glasses would afford a colorful display at the bar as they are warmed up.
There are drinks called Lava Lamp, but a lava lamp drink with movement could probably be achieved with liquids of the correct density and insolubility in one of these glasses with or without surrounding blobs.
Re: Orbitz Soda
http://www.retrocru...archive2003/orbitz/
Tangentially similar to a lava lamp drink, and doesn't require a power source. Or taste buds, according to the author. Perhaps the soda could be used to fill the void in clear double-walled glasses. [jurist, Sep 12 2005]
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Anyway, perhaps you could move the heating element out of the glasses, and have heat and lighting coming from the bar. Because they're probably going to be a little heavy... |
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Although if you stick with the in-glass element, you could have cooling at the top as well as heating at the bottom for a longer lasting effect. |
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I like the idea of having an actual lava-lamp drink itself.. although I doubt there is a good combination of immiscable, drinkable liquids with the appropriate density change properties which also taste good. |
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Good points. I like the idea of continued movement and light at the table and induction would eliminate burn risk. |
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I'd like a giant lava blob, a lava globe with a 1/2 metre radius. Why confine it to glasses, how about a window pain with two colours so that the dark colour takes over as it heats up like a sunscreen and vice versa. |
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Have you not seen those double-walled plastic glasses containing colored oils and water that achieve this very effect, no technology required? Baked, I say. |
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Dr: Do the back-lit blobs continue to move like mating and dividing amoebae? |
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edski: I think a window add-on as decoration instead of sunscreen, with the liquids powered by the sun and cooled in the upper, shaded edge, would be interesting too. |
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Yeah, if you hold the glass up to the light as you drink. |
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A pre-search before posting LavaJava finds this gem. |
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Actually about 10 years ago I remember my mum buying me a soft drink, inside a clear plastic can was a lemonade or similar clear fizzy drink. Floating at random depths were small blobs of jelly, I don't think they were particularly popular, that was the only time I ever saw them. |
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The drink was called Orbitz here [fridge duck] |
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