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Traditional coasters are good for keeping coffee rings off the table, but that's about it. Spill more than a tablespoon and it's going all over the place.
This coaster, somewhat thicker than the usual kind, would be filled with diaper material designed to expand on contact with liquid, It would be
contained in a way that lets it expand outwards in rays or tentacles, bringing the material into contact with more spilled liquid, thus causing further expansion until all it can absorb has been absorbed.
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Doesn't sound that hygienic to slurp the spilled coffee from out of. |
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Also if you spill coffee out of one side of your cup, does it then expand on that side, tipping the cup over so that coffee sloshes out of the other side? I suppose that spilled coffee would expand the other side, so that you could get a kind of sloshing - expanding - rising equilibrium and your cup could be pushed higher and higher by the ever expanding coaster until it hit the ceiling. |
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Things that make me go "hmmmmmmm".... |
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As long as they come with a mini-mangle to
recover the absorbed spillages. |
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[+] for an image of pseudo living, organic thing spreading out on the coffee table chasing it's life blood. |
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[+] for the invention, and another for that annotation. ^ |
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