A small, comfortable backpack, very similar to a runner's or biker's hydration pack, but designed specifically to take the bag out of a 3 or 5 litre wine box.
Some users put alcoholic beverages into conventional hydration packs, but this is custom-designed.-- 8th of 7, Jun 16 2011 Dr Spoading http://i53.tinypic.com/o10cxj.jpg19th Century Time-Traveller, on a quest to hunt the zebras of the future. [theleopard, Jun 17 2011] The Backpack http://i54.tinypic.com/elac09.jpgYou can just make out the black tap protruding from the bottom below the brass photon coil. [theleopard, Jun 17 2011] Drawbacks http://i53.tinypic.com/14ihieg.jpgSometimes a giant suited hare will sneak up behind you and guzzle surreptitiously. [theleopard, Jun 17 2011] I've actually made one of these. I went to Bestival on the Isle of Wight last year dressed as a steampunk time-travelling wino. My custom- made leather backpack contained two bags of space wine, with the taps protruding from the sides. I've never been more drunk in all my life.
I'll upload a picture of it later. (The costume/backpack, not the drunken haze.)-- theleopard, Jun 16 2011 //I've never been more drunk in all my life.//And we have a slogan.-- FlyingToaster, Jun 16 2011 An empty one of these could double as a sort of emergency toilet - also useful for festivals.-- hippo, Jun 16 2011 half in - half out.-- po, Jun 16 2011 Almost a perpetual wee machine. Just don't feed it back in.-- theleopard, Jun 16 2011 We look forward to seeing that, [lep].
Improvised one-off versions exist, but this would be properly engineered, with a cooler mechanism for white wine.
With the addition of a second "receiving" bag, and some very discreet and surreptitious plumbing, this could indeed be adapted to obviate those annoyingly necessary trips to the bathroom ...-- 8th of 7, Jun 16 2011 It's 3rd use is a hot water bottle/pillow.-- marklar, Jun 16 2011 I have seen, from high in the banked stadium seating of an - ack spit - Eagles concert, poor benighted individuals roaming the pink stetson and bingo wings riddled stadium floor, dispensing what could only have been vile piss wine from a plastic backpack, down plastic tubes and into the plastic cups held forth by whooping, fagaddled harpies.-- calum, Jun 17 2011 //whooping, fagaddled harpies//I have a new insult to cherish.Thank you [calum]-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jun 17 2011 Simply brilliant. Add a School Backpack Disguise Kit and VOILA! A four year institution is instantly transformed into a ten-plus year institution (as long as those young livers hold out and the football team stops falling down after halftime). Bun [+].-- Grogster, Jun 17 2011 Prototype [linked].-- theleopard, Jun 17 2011 Kick ass! + and another for [theleopard]-- nomocrow, Jun 17 2011 Steam-punk duct tape, [theleopard]?-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jun 17 2011 In the south, these would be Nascar beer hats.-- RayfordSteele, Jun 17 2011 //Steam-punk duct tape, [theleopard]? //
It rained, I fell over, and the backpack required... alterations.-- theleopard, Jun 17 2011 While not in any way wishing to deride your enthusiasm or the excellence of your efforts (such as they were), we have to say that while it would be adequate as a "technology demonstrator", we actually have in mind something a little more, shall we say, contemporary - if not futuristic ...-- 8th of 7, Jun 17 2011 Cutting, [8th].
Cutting.-- theleopard, Jun 17 2011 // Cutting. //
Well, you seem to have plenty of duct tape, so it shouldn't be a problem ....-- 8th of 7, Jun 17 2011 Who needs a glass? Wine in a bag, sucked through a hose, for the Walmart crowd.-- RayfordSteele, Jun 17 2011 // sucked through a hose //
Yes, that's the concept. Maybe even a small pump, or mild pressurisation, for when you're so drunk you're losing control of your voluntary musckes.
Maybe an accelerometer system to detect when you've fallen and can't get up, at which point it switches from the hose to IV delivery.
// the Walmart crowd //
We didn't know you mixed with the sophisticated set, [Ray].-- 8th of 7, Jun 17 2011 //bag// Recycled goat bladder.-- mouseposture, Jun 17 2011 random, halfbakery