We have blogged about wine thermometers before, but never a thermometer that contains wine. The Linea Rouge designed by Sono Mocci uses red wine instead of mercury to indicate the temperature.
Italian designer Sono Mocci was inspired by early modern thermometers, like the ones created by Ferdinando II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, around 1654, to create Linea Rouge. The thermometer uses red wine instead of mercury and measures temperature through the rise and fall of the wine through the capillary tube.
This simple wall thermometer with it's modern design aesthetic and clean communication style could pull double duty as a piece of art hanging on the wall. Add in the cool factor of it containing red wine and you have a nice looking conversation piece and a useful thermometer that does not clash with your decor. This is one thermometer we would not seek to hide.
What do you think? Would you purchase this thermometer should it become available?
[via designboom]
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Comments (10)
I would!
what's with the photo with the key? if you're missing the thermometer part, it doesn't do anything?
I love the idea. If it was made affordable then I think they would sell like hot cakes. Especially if partnered with a brand like Target or Ikea.
do you have to calibrate it everytime you hang this thing on the nail?
The key, hanging straight down by gravity, maybe is a tool to help you line up where 40 degrees is so you can plot out the numbers? The numbers looks like a DIY sorta thing.
@Trish1980 - looks like you've got it right. Carpenter friend of mine calls it a "DIY plumb bob".
And the size of the key gives you an idea of how big (or small) the actual thing is
What makes you think it's filled with red wine? The linked designboom page says it's an alcohol thermometer, which makes sense, but an alcohol thermometer is usually ethanol or toluene with dye added to make it visible.
And any other pages I can find that call it a red wine thermometer also link to the designboom page. I can't find any first-hand reference to it containing red wine.
A thermometer made from something fermenting (and which undergoes further fermentation after bottling) doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, nor does an alcohol thermometer with only 15% alcohol.
(That might explain why it reads 29 degrees both on the wall and in someone's hand, I suppose.)
@Rich:
There are several other blogs out there that say this is filled with wine. I just tried to look up the designer's website (www.sonomocci.com) for a first-hand source, but it's under construction. But the other blogs showed up on a google search.
@pebblescruz:
If this really is that small, I'd hate to DIY the numbers!
Trish: Right, all those other blogs source the same Designboom post that doesn't mention wine. (But I said that already.)
Consider: Would wine work in a thermometer? (No.)
Could be pretty cool. I'd buy, depending on the price.
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