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Note that the tele lens from Canon is not designed for cameras, but for holding water…Though everyone believes the cup fits photographers quite well, just imagine what would happen if they carelessly take it as real lens…

You’re visiting one of your intimates and she’s prepared your favorite coffee. So you take up the coffee cup with great pleasure and then find many ants climbing from the tray up to your cup…OMG, that’s h—horrible! But also Terrific! I love the trick done by the cup and saucer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Frankly, the mug has nothing to do with Van Gogh but the concept is rather intriguing. The Dear Van Gogh is a silicon mug that features an ear-shaped flexible handle. Designed by Mike Mak, the handle feels realistic and could be twisted or pulled hard. That sounds like a perfect way to release your anger! [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you love the ‘Conjoined Twin Cups’ or the ‘8 cups’, you’ll surely feel excited about the Sixpack designed by oooms. It allows you to hold up to 6 cups of beer at one time! You could DIY one if you do appreciate the great idea.

Seemingly not a necessary design, the Air Shield Coffee Cup Sleeve is however something you will find it quite useful and funny after you read through the article. The concept behind it is all about preventing your fingers from scald by hot beverage in plastic or disposable cups. Based on the principle of ‘expand from heat and contract from cold’, the cute pedals on the sleeve will expand to keep your fingers from a direct touch with the cup when heated while fatten out when the temperature falls. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One day, you went into the rest room, picked up a cup from the table, filled it with coffee, raised the cup to your mouth, and then you heard laughter all around…Why, you asked your workmates and they all pointed to the cup you were using. As the cup’s bottom is shaped like a snout, it just looks as if you have a snout too when you use the cup. Have fun!

The idea behind the ordinary-looking cups will impress you a lot. A full cup of beer, that answer will definitely hit everyone when they see the picture at the first glance, due to its foam-shaped cap and the yellow color. Those who like to play pranks on people are sure to love these beer cups. Cheers! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seldom may we have instant noodle, right? But when we go on a trip, the pot instant noodle is more or less the best meal we can bring with. The Cupmen, therefore, are invented to hold down the paper lid. Reacting to heat, these Cupmen will gradually change their colors and by this means telling you when your noodle is done. Perhaps to manufactures, if they adopt the Cupmen as gifts attached to the noodle, their products will be more popular. Of course, it is merely a hypothesis, and my own. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Even the most masterful waitress still couldn’t carry up to 8 cups at the same time, and 5 to 6 cups may be the limit to them. But isn’t there anyone can take 8 or more cups simultaneously? Haha, I could, however, if only I’m using the Conjoined Twin Cups. May you want to try it? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Don’t take these colorful dots merely as decorations, what they really do would astonish you a lot. You don’t think so? Well, pour in some beverage into, and see what it will do…Look out! Some words gradually appear among the dots, in the same color as the drink. In that way, white words for milk, yellow for orange, brown for coca cola, then, what is for water?

It works in a way like this: those seemingly irregularly-place dots are designedly arranged. So if the liquid you pour into it matches any kind of the pre-determined acceptable liquids, the colorful dots will go transparent, and certain words will then appear. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hey, man, don’t rejoice too soon, the Double Cup is not the same as you may have imagined. Seemingly like two separate cups stack together, it’s actually one cup, which goes clearer when you pour in some wine. By this means, the designer wants to warn us: wines is nice, but never indulge yourself too freely with alcohol. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Pick up one’s nose seems like a strange idea but if you think of the side views when others take up the cup to their mouths…things start to make sense, right? And these Pick Your Noses Party Cups are just designed to make you laughing, quite ideal for activating the atmosphere on parties! Every package contains 12 different noses, each coming in various ethnicities, sexes and combinations of facial hair. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A cup made from coffee beans, what would be more suitable for coffee than this? Love coffee, love the coffee cup.

Someday, I went to visit one of my friends, who works as a traffic policeman. We sat down, noticing that a road sign is placed on the table. And when we were talking about his high dedication to his job, he went to the table and took up the sign to serve us some coffee…Unexpectedly, the road sign is actually a set of cups!!! Excellent work, Pierre Lescop! [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Hello, this is saya, and who’s that?” When we were still kids, most of us had the same experience to call others, not through telephones but two cups attached with a long piece of string. And it is rightly the classic toy that brings us much fun. That’s also why we may feel quite familiar with the “Cup Communicator” presented here. But obviously the new product is based on the digital technology. When you want to talk to your friends, just tune into a certain channel and then a conversation is allowed. [Read the rest of this entry...]