How-To: Breaking Bad-Inspired Formula Drinking Glasses
Geeked about the return of Breaking Bad? You’ll definitely want to whip up a set of sweet Breaking Bad-inspired formula drinking glasses!
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How-To: Gold Confetti Tumblers
These gold confetti tumblers may look pricy and stylish, but they’re actually really easy to make!
Flashback: Greater Than Drunk Pint Glasses
Math is a universal language, so why save the symbols of mathematics just for equations? These clever “Greater Than Drunk” and “Less Than Sober” pint glasses are designed to help you communicate with the precision of a math geek, and of course, to help you consume in style!
Glass Blowing Demonstrations by The Crucible
As an industrial and fine arts education center in the Bay Area, The Crucible was the perfect group to show Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 attendees demonstrations in welding, blacksmithing, and glass flameworking. Kier Lugo from the Crucible gave our cameras a close-up look at what goes into creating a beautiful piece of glassware from just a molten glob of the material.
Make: Projects – “You Have Just Been Poisoned” Pint Glass
Fans of Patrick McGoohan’s classic BBC spy series ‘The Prisoner’ will recognize this gimmick from Episode 15, “The Girl Who Was Death.” It’s a pint glass with words etched on the bottom (in authentic “Village” font) that appear line-by-line as the liquid is imbibed. My version is the closest reproduction of the original I could achieve.
Glass lens doorknob gives preview of room beyond
Probably not all doors should offer previews, all the time, but this is undeniably wonderful. As it is, the knob offers bi-directional viewing; I wonder if you could half-silver one side and make it one-way? Johnny Strategy at Spoon & Tomago writes:
In conjunction with Design Tide Tokyo, architect Hideyuki Nakayama – a protégé of Toyo Ito -　has teamed up with UNION, a manufacturer of door handles and levers, to create a glass globe doorknob. As you approach the doorknob you catch a glimpse of what appears to be another world, waiting for you to enter and join, but in fact is a reflection of the room on the other side of the door.
[via Gizmodo]
Lilliputian chemistry glassware
The listing also claims that “the tallest piece measures 3″,” which, unless an oversize penny is actually part of the set, seems like a slight exaggeration. Majorl awesomesauce, anyway. ]via Neatorama]
