Probably inspired by most people’s habit of spinning a cup when they enjoy coffee or tea, designers have endowed this round-round-land cup with two layer saucers so that the cup would seem to move too while the upper saucer is spun. After that, something magical and interesting will then happen: the cup creates a merry-go-round effect as the images on the saucer are reflected onto platinum coated mirrors of the cup.

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Old wine bottles now have their new brighter future, and soon you’ll find them back with the same function as wine cups. After cutting, polishing and other processes, old wine bottles then turn into lovely cups with beautiful decorative patterns, making them still popular at home and in the bars.

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You’ll see an inspiring vision after finishing this cup of coffee… And if you’d like to know what that will be, please get the Minor Miracle Mug home and enjoy your coffee.

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Seemingly everybody can perform magic for entertainment: these cups can still be filled with water when they’re upside down! But at a closer look you’ll then find out that the stack of cups is actually a carafe, isn’t that interesting?

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Have to think to myself… What a simple but practical idea! Simply adding a round button onto normal cups, the designer have cleverly solved the problem of a moving teabag and also the long threads. Fantastic!

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Apart from the young beauties, the ceramic molded cup designed by Israeli student Sharona Merlin also wants to have a good figure, and it does look slim! Hailed “Slim Cup”, the new coffee cup appears like a typical coffee cup from one side, but almost disappears when turned 90 degrees. Except the ceramic cup, Sharona Merlin is also working on designing other slim ceramics tableware so as to help the consumers see “the way things get slimmer as technology moves forward”.

Designer: Sharona Merlin

Time to get up—somebody smiles, somebody knits his/her brows, and there’re also someone too sleepy to open their eyes. Indeed, the same morning begins with different facial expressions, and each one has a distinctive way to enjoy their first cup of coffee. All handmade, these porcelain mugs not only come with a cute facial expression to reflect your mood, but feature a double wall insulation to keep the drink warm inside while your hands cool outside. So which do you like best, Happy as Larry, Monstrously Moody or Seriously Sleepy?

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Stunning ceramic stacking cups inspired by the traditional Native American Totem Pole have been quite popular on the internet recently. Not merely for containing water, but also for decorating your stylish home! Also available in gold and silver. Each set includes four cups.

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With no handle, the new coffee cup designed by Emi Schenkelbach asks you to hold it in hands so as to give you warmth during the cold winter. Or you can just leave it float over the plate that comes along, and hold the plates’ handles instead. Finished in ceramics and walnut shell, the coffee cup looks so elegant and smart that you may even mistaken it as an art piece, but it’s actually practical for frequent use. You don’t think so? Try it!

Designer: Emi Schenkelbach

Clean and hygienic cups may be good for your health, but the large amount of electricity used to power the dish driers has become a matter of wrong for the nature and the nations worldwide. So why not just leave the cups upside down on the tables to have the water drain out? If you’re still worried about the wet cups sticking to each other when you are airing them, Seung Jun Jeong and Seo Young Moon would like to recommend the Stackable Cups. As you can see from the pictures, the cute cup features some toothlike projections, which allow the air to pass through the cups to have them dried up quickly while preventing them to stick together.

Designer: Seung Jun Jeong & Seo Young Moon

Hey, kids in front of the screen, see what we’ve prepared for you today…the “Head’s Up Juice Glasses”! It features retro styled faces that look like a kid and an aged man when you flip the glass. Each set includes 2 10 ounce glasses, with an acceptable price of $9.99. So you like it? Aha, “Bottoms Up Shot Glass” for dads, and the “Head’s Up Juice Glasses” for moms and kids.

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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.

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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!

Designer: Mike Mak Design

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.

Designer: Frank Xing

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!

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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.

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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?

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.

Designer: Damjan Stanković

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.

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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.

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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!

Designer: Pierre Lescop

“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.

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It is the most delicious coffee cup you’ve ever met, huh? I really couldn’t help imaging the wonderful time with it! As a master piece of both green and edible container, the Cookie Cup is sure to sweep the world in the near future. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it!

Designer: Enrique Luis Sardi

For some men, it is a good choice to grow a special beard, because it will help you to enhance your charm. So why not change your rigid appearance in daily life with the special beard cup? You then needn’t to wait for a long time to grow a real beard. Get it and have a change now!

It’s a “cloudy” cup？Not really, pour into it some hot water, and now it’s a “sunny” one.

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It’s common to find unconscious people use other’s cups without permission. Then, are there any possible methods to prevent this unpleasant behavior? Have a plug-in cup right now. Generally, you can keep it in a safety and hygienic place with the plug pulled out until you need it. As a result, there is no need to worry about your cup used by others. After all, no one will get a cup with a hole.

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Without a tray, I cannot take 8 cups of water or tea or coffee or whatever for one time, can you? Probably not. But this Pick-Cups gives you this ability. It comes with uniquely designed handles that make them easy to hold 4 in each hand.So, if you have two hands, you can take 8 cups.

Designer: Jung-Woo Baik

I guess you will be confused after seeing a cup like this. Why is it shaped like this? You’d better have a look at it from the top.

Yes, the cup is smiling to you.

Juice is sure popular, but if you get a cup with the pattern like this, I mean, it seems like a cup of pee. You still like this cup of juice?

This carafe is inspired from water droplet. In order to express the idea, it comes transparent glass without any pattern. It can be divided into three parts, the top of the drop is a cup and the middle one is a carafe. The ripple is actually a tray.

Designer: Ozgur Onal

This series of kitchenware comes with several measuring cups, mixing bowls and even a juicer with different colors. Thanks to the careful design, the kitchenware like a rainbow circle can save space and be a good decoration as well.

Designer: Morph

It seems that mugs have no need to be redesigned. However, with a unique curve, this mug designed by Jinhong Lin can make your lip more comfortable.

Designer: Jinhong Lin

We have introduced many products with a recycled package which can be reused for the other purpose, such as TV packaging stand and eco-friendly cake box. However, what about such products without any package as a bottle of wine? Why not try labels?

This brilliant idea features several unique paper cups that can function as normal labels before using. In order to make it seem like a conventional bottle, it also comes with a slot for these label cups.

Designer: Viktor Pucsek

Based on the comments of customers, Charles & Marie changed the ON/OFF Mug into this HOT/COLD one.

Designer: Charles & Marie

The pouch of this mug could hold tea bag for you, so that you could enjoy tea anytime you want.

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If you’re a sugar addict, goblet tower won’t be more attractive than donut in your mind. So, you need a donut tower—Donutree!

Place cups over the sow one by one and then insert donuts in cups, a harvest donutree is OK. What are you waiting for?

Designer: Andreu Carulla & Alberto Gutierrez

You will sure need a straw for soda, however, you why not just integrate the straw into the cup?

This cup is actually made by one single straw, the beverage will be sucked in from the underneath and then flow into your mouth via the upper sucker.

Designer: Qian Jiang

This is a pretty smart design: put snacks on the top of the cup. You could delivery both the snacks and the soda at the same time with more convenience.

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You must be surprised by people who are drinking coffee with three cups stacked together.

Actually, this is only a innovative design. It is a single cup shaped like three cups stacked.

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You need a hot coffee in winter, but while you’re sipping, extra heat gonna be wasted. Thanks to the unique two-chanber system, you could enjoy perfect coffee without loosing any extra heat.

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This design use a paper cup as the package of pills. So, you will have a cup anytime you wanna take pills. Plus, since it could reduce waste, not only the patients but our earth can be more health.

If you have bored of normal measuring cup, you gonna like this design. Shaped in giraffe and gaggle, the must be the cutest measuring cups in the world.

Price: $28

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Although dish cleaner could help you to wash and dry your mug, you won’t have this device in your office. So, you should put your mug upside down on the desk to let the drips go away. However, since the drips is covered under the mug, they won’t be vaporized quickly.

If you have a leaning mug like this, everything gonna be easier. It comes with a triangle handle, which could support the mug in a leaning posture. In this way, the water will be vaporized thoroughly.

Designer: Nothing Design Group

This is a romantic cup; you could share one cup with your lover. Moreover, both of you gonna have a individual cup of coffee.

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In order to have a better taste, we usually use spoon or something to stir the coffee with self-added sugar in it. But, if you get a cup like this, you do not need any spoon or some other stir sticks any more.

With a ceramic ball in the cup, you could stir the sugar just by moving the glass. It’s a good way! In addition, the combination of glass and ceramic is aesthetically appealing in its formal interpretation of the traditional cup and saucer.

Designer: Florian Dussopt, Jérémie Reneau, Julie Girard

You still remember the first time you seen distorting mirror? This cup is actually the reversed using of distorting mirror. It won’t distort the normal words; instead, correct the distorted word(s) into a normal one(s).

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If the waiter always make the wrong coffee, you might like this. Smply slide the stainless steel, you gonna choose the right caffee for yourself without any word.

Select between tea, coffee, hot chocolate or herb tea by simply sliding the stainless steel ’slidey’ thing around the mug to the desired position and voila. On the second ring or slidey thing you have can select to have milk, no milk, lemon or cream. The third ring lets you select between 0 and 3 sugars.

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