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These remind me of simular drinkware in saw in the current issue of Poplife Magazine (#5). I don't remember who made them (I was just reading it last night before I went to sleep with a mental note to look em up on the web), but they were very cool.
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Very cool. Love that it cuts down on the number of glasses you'd have to wash!!! That would be a big plus for me, especially since I am the dish washer at my home.

First thought? Icky. Do you really want to drink from the same surface that has been on different tables, in different hands, and slogged through goodness knows what all night long? Think about where the bottom of your glass goes. Interesting concept but I have this thing about germs and goo.

I didn't see it quite the way Sassy did -- sounds like Sassy was thinking shared glasses all the way, which would be ick whether they were styled this way or any other way. I was figuring one person, one glass, but possibilities for different beverages in the same glass. But what happens if you have wine or punch or juice or some other potentially sticky liquid in the small half, and then want to turn it over to have water in the large half? Unless you managed to drain absolutely every drop before turning it over (which seems tricky), wouldn't the dregs of the wine/punch/juice drip all over the floor while you were happily drinking water out of the other part of the glass? just a thought...

Don't you people rinse your glasses after you use them? Plus, if you're rehydrating with water use some on the sticky side of the glass

I personally think the idea is brilliant, especially for those of us with woefully inadequate cabinet space.

I was thinking about these glasses further when it occured to me that you would have to hand wash them every time. They may be dishwasher safe, but there is no practical way to put them in the dishwasher without one side or the other filling up and not being washed.

this is yet another "solution" that doesn't really solve anything.

if you want to switch from wine to water and vice versa without dirtying glasses, you just *gasp* finish what you were already drinking and put the different beverage into your same glass. the glass-size differential (red wine likes a bigger opening to aerate better, blah blah blah) isn't that big of a deal unless you're having a wine tasting or you're in some kind of highly formal gastronomie kind of setting. neither of which would be an ideal use for this glass, anyway.

i guess if you're super-squeamish or are switching between beverages that would be completely befouled with a few drops of something else in them, you could rinse between refills.

but we need a special double sided glass why, exactly?

i used to work for MoMA design, and that whole store is filled to the brim with these sorts of modern "solutions" to fake "problems" that either don't need solving or can be fixed without buying a special product. if you like these glasses and think they're cool, buy them. but don't be all "oooh, this is a great way to get around suchandsuch problem i keep having!" because you are just lying to yourself to justify a purchase. which is silly. if you have $40 to spend on this sort of thing, just buy it already. or don't. whatever. just stop pretending like getting this is going to solve world hunger.

Opoponax, we have a little catchphrase chez moi for objects that are cute and chic, but ultimately are less functional than conventional widgets. These objects are "dezined," emphasis on the second syllable.

Dezine embraces chairs that work better as sculpture than as seating, clocks with unreadable numbers (we have one, thank you, IKEA), and probably these glasses.