h a l f b a k e r y"It would work, if you can find alternatives to each of the steps involved in this process."
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Have you ever had a milkshake that was so thick you could lay bricks with it? Have you tried to suck up the ice cream in a Coke float and gone blue in the face?
Well, now your problems are solved with our power-assisted straws. Tongue activated, the ingenious little motor sucks up your drink and
squirts it into your mouth at a pleasant rate.
No more in-growing cheeks, no more bloodshot eyes, now you can get battery-operated brain-freeze double quick time.
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My first thought was that this would be used for purposes other than intended. My second thought was that this was therefore likely baked in the local stag shop. |
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tongue activated? how precisely? well not precisely just a clue! |
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I see this as a
device which can be used on
normal straws. Just insert a normal
straw and pairs of rollers squeeze
the straw and roll up the top, then
detach and go back to the bottom
of the straw. |
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for every straw there is a sucker + |
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Yeah...the "self sucking" part threw me for a loop, too. I guess I'm going to have to go back to "mind cleaning" school. I do like the idea of this straw, though. I love pineapple shakes and it is kind of fun to struggle the little bits of pineapple up through the straw. So, I probably wouldn't use it. I give this a bun just because I think it would be a real challenge to develop the mechanism...has to be self cleaning, highly portable...in a shirt pocket, perhaps, appeal to a very limited class of consumer (those who are nuts about sucking thick liquids), very inexpensive..less than ten dollars retail...and not be noisy. Perhaps some sort of "squeeze bulb" device, or a trigger type like a window cleaner sprayer. |
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You could sell a standard sized lid with a blowing device, tackling this from the other direction. You'll get rid of any cleaning issues (except in the case of cup failure). |
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Maybe a pair of rollers that you could clamp on to the straw and run up and down. They would release when rolled down but tighten when rolled up again. |
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