The Vacanti Spirale is a wine glass with a corkscrew-like twist at the bottom that captures sediment. Given wine sediment is a problem that would have confronted the ancient Phoenician, Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilizations, and many other cultures over the last 10,000 years, it's quite astonishing that this simple design hasn't been done before.
It seems the marketplace has recognized the virtues of the Spirale, as the glass nearly doubled its $48,000 goal on Kickstarter and is now up for pre-order on Indiegogo OnDemand.
A set of two of the hand-blown glasses can be pre-ordered at a cost of US$49, with shipping slated for November. The retail price is has been set at $35 each, which is possibly a negligible expense compared to the value of the wine that will be drunk from them.
Creators Patrick and Margarita Vacanti discuss the Spirale in the pitch video below.
If your help is letting your glasses sit unattended overnight you should probably replace them anyways.
There are 2 very good reasons that explain this fantastic riddle.
1/ Cleaning (as others have pointed out) 2/ $35 *PER GLASS*!!!
Yet another hopelessly impractical answer to a non-problem destined for the dustbin of history.
What makes you such an anti-wine zealot? Or gives you authority to abuse those who drink it?