The coils are connected to a CPU and battery taped to the exterior of the glass. A switch connects between, sine, square or ouch, a sawtooth waveform. The frequency is Kenneth of course.
-- mensmaximus, Feb 04 2005

Dangerous Proposition, [mensmaximus] http://poststuff2.e....php?media=fire.wmv
Short WMV showing the possible result of such a beverage. [contracts, Feb 04 2005]

But what does it do? Sounds like it will just warm the liquid and create a bit of a magnetic force. Are you meaning to control ripples?
-- Worldgineer, Feb 04 2005


What is the frequency Kenneth?
-- zen_tom, Feb 04 2005


If it the glass were filled with ferrofluid, you could turn it upside-down when the coils were on.
-- bungston, Feb 04 2005


Thankyou [longshot] another REM song makes slightly more sense to me now. And I'd always thought they were just being weird.

[Edit] after having done a search for REM's lyrics, I have returned to my original conclusion.
-- zen_tom, Feb 04 2005


what?
-- brodie, Feb 04 2005


This would give me Tommyrot.
-- gnomethang, Feb 04 2005



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