{"id":28361,"date":"2016-07-28T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/your-next-cocktail-could-defy-gravity-with-the-levitating-cup"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:11","slug":"your-next-cocktail-could-defy-gravity-with-the-levitating-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/your-next-cocktail-could-defy-gravity-with-the-levitating-cup","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Cocktail Could Defy Gravity With the Levitating CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-next-cocktail-could-defy-gravity-with-the-levitating-cup.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next time your have a drink at your favorite restaurant or bar; it could be in a levitating glass.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Diehard cocktail aficionados swear by serving specific drinks in the correct glass. I wonder what they\u2019ll make of the Levitating CUP, a cocktail glass designed to float above a portable base, in seeming defiance of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the brainchild of Joe Paglione, CEO of a Chicago-based startup company called Levitating Cup. They\u2019ve launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2037861313\/levitatingcup-lift-your-spirits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Kickstarter campaign<\/a> to raise the necessary capital to bring the products to market. There are cocktail glasses, dessert cups, beer cups, plates, and even pillows for optimal presentation-just in case you want to throw a full dinner party without the usual coasters and place mats.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work? The metallic base holds an electromagnet, with a corresponding magnet in the cup itself so it can appear to float weightlessly in mid-air. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2037861313\/levitatingcup-lift-your-spirits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per the Website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.in\/science\/Your-Next-Cocktail-Could-Defy-Gravity-With-the-Levitating-CUP\/articleshow\/53426499.cms\">http:\/\/www.gizmodo.in\/science\/Your-Next-Cocktail-Could-Defy-...426499.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time your have a drink at your favorite restaurant or bar; it could be in a levitating glass. Diehard cocktail aficionados swear by serving specific drinks in the correct glass. I wonder what they\u2019ll make of the Levitating CUP, a cocktail glass designed to float above a portable base, in seeming defiance of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66767,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28361\/revisions\/66767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}