These wine racks are incredibly simple but absolutely adorable in its design. Made out of wood, the wine racks have the shape of animals with a body of a wine bottle. You can see an elephant, a penguin, a reindeer and a dog. I want them all. They would be perfect in my non existent winter cabin. Read More >>
Regardless of whether you're a sommelier-hopeful or simply a diligent lush, you're going to need a wine rack to match your distinct, personal tastes and—er, volume. This is exactly what makes the completely customisable and optionally mountable Nucleus wine rack from Thijs Goossink so fantastic. Read More >>
Maybe you don't know the first thing about wine except that you like it. Hell, maybe you make your oenological choices based on how cool the label is. Even if the wine is crap, you can still nail the presentation with STACT, a slick modular wine rack. Read More >>
Skip the Ikea-imposed allen wrenches and other tools with this build-it-yourself side table that assembles using the skills you learned while uncorking countless bottles of wine. Instead of a more traditional threaded bolt, the table's three legs feature the same screw you'd find on a bottle opener, making it easy to secure them to its cork tabletop. Read More >>
There's a lot of nasty, virulent bugs going around this year. Colds and flus are putting people out of commission for weeks on end. This means that by now one of your friends has told you to drink some whiskey because that'll knock the cold right out. Read More >>
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If you've ever messed around with Linux, you're probably familiar with a little program called "Wine," WINdows Emulator/Wine Is Not an Emulator. With its magic, you can run Windows applications on your Linux box, and soon, Wine could be running them on your Android phone as well. Read More >>
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Sometimes you just don't have the right resources to make a decent drink. But if you get enough sober, thirsty minds focused on the problem, humans can find some pretty creative ways to come up with alcohol. Read More >>
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You. You're out drinking with your friends, matching them round for round. They're sippin' fancy whiskey, but you're saving money, sticking with the well specials. So why is it, halfway through the night, you're suddenly hit with a brutal headache, and everybody else is fine? Read More >>
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If you needed any more proof that drones are slowly but surely infiltrating the world around us, look no further than the vineyards of the world, where our little robotic friends are revolutionising the world of precision viticulture. Read More >>
As you grow a little bit older and stop taking as many tequila shots on a random Tuesday night, you'll inevitably venture into the pinky raised world of drinking wine. It's scary! It's intimidating! It's snooty! But it doesn't have to be, you can learn everything you need to know about wine with an iOS book called Wine Simplified. Read More >>
This little chap, known as Wall-Ye V.I.N., might look adorable, but he means business. With four wheels, two arms, six cameras, and on-board GPS, he's capable of pruning 600 vines a day in order to help make the wine you swill every evening. Read More >>
It may look like a nuclear warhead or part of an exotic anti-matter weapon, but it's actually a bottle of wine — a glass and metal cone containing 750 milliliters of the most expensive wine in the world sold directly from a winery. Read More >>
There's already a large community of old-school photographers who develop their shots using a mix of coffee and vitamin C instead of the usual chemicals found in a darkroom. But over at the Caffenol blog, they've started experimenting with a red wine-based developing solution as well. Read More >>
Jargon is technology. Language was created for communication, and sharing a set of slang makes it all the more efficient. Ordering a drink from a bartender needs to be particularly quick and clear. If not, you're going to look like a novice, and you're not going to get the drink you want. And the booze snobs will rub it in your face. Read More >>
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First, the bad news. You can't get drunk wearing this wine dress. So you'll have to find another secret way to get your morning buzz on. But the good news is that researchers from the University of Western Australia have found a way to grow fabric using a similar fermentation process to making booze. Read More >>