Bottles

​Opening the "sipping port" on a bottle can be tricky, if you're drinking from it one-handed. If you just leave it open, though, the bottle's contents can slosh out as you drive, etc. The Lyd bottle offers a solution, in the form of a lid that only opens when your lips are touching it.

Ask a smartphone user how to improve them, and it's a safe bet that longer battery life would top the list. Batteries with silicon anodes could help boost that, and now a team has shown that these batteries can be environmentally friendly too, sourced from glass bottles headed for the scrap heap.

​​When trying to keep wine fresh after being opened, it's important to limit the wine's exposure to oxygen left inside the bottle. QikVin does so in the form of a vessel that gets "smaller" as wine is poured out.​

Wondering how much and how often your baby is eating? Well, Sleevely is designed to tell you. It's a "SmartSleeve" that an existing baby bottle slides into, which monitors the infant's nutritional intake.

There's an old camping trick, for people who don't want to bother getting a lantern: just stick a flashlight up against the bottom of a plastic pop bottle, turn the flashlight on, then bask in the bottle's glow. Now you can do the same sort of thing with wine bottles, using suckUK's bottlelight.

Since the earliest days of brewing beer and making wine, the search has been on for an easy, affordable method of chilling drinks quickly without diluting them in the process. Spin Chill claims to have a solution that helps make beverages ice cold in 60 seconds.

Amorim and O-I unveil their Helix cork and bottle that are designed so that the cork can be removed with a simple twist of the wrist.

The new HydraPak SoftFlask is a collapsible, reusable water bottle designed for drinking on the go.

The Lockey Bottle Lock securely slots into wine and liquor bottles with a twist to keep liquor bottle safe and secure.

Researchers have designed a new two-triggered spray bottle, designed to keep young children from spraying out its contents.

The Vapur Element is a larger, sportier foldable bottle that boasts a wide mouth "SuperCap" to deliver that extra fluid to your body more quickly.

Created by the same man who came up with inhalable chocolate, portable containers for food and drinks could soon be available in a novel edible form.