Special "no-threat" glasses for looking at gorillas. Health insurance company FBTO is distributing eye-contact disguising glasses that allow zoo visitors to stare all they like, a behavior that is threatening to most of the great apes.

FEATUREDOnly Maison Martin Margiela would fill a room at 10 Corso Como with open safes behind paintings to show off jewelry, glasses over creepy dolls eyes... and cover the walls with paint by numbers wallpaper.

Yniq is a new Swedish eyewear company founded by freeride skier Jon Olsson. Their line of ski glasses are designed by Norra Norr.

Make Your Glass by Marina Dragomirova - A series of glasses split in two parts.

'Ming' bamboo spectacles by Chinese designer Chen Chun-hao & bamboo artist Huang To-en. They are lightweight with features & silhouette of furniture from the ming dynasty which is recognized for its elegant &minimalistic design.

Great wine glass and champagne flue sponges. The rounded end hugs the curves of wine glasses, while the pointed end reaches into the bottom of champagne flutes. A tiny slot in the sponge permits quick cleaning of glass rims too.

a music video for 'Doutbful Comforts' by Blue Roses. It's in 3D but doesn't require glasses by using 'wiggle stereoscopy'

A ceramic set for serving schnaps or liqueur from Fenke Schwan. There are imprints of a little deer on the flask and glasses. These detailed imprints are unglazed for contrast.

The Bodum Presso series contains a sleek double wall coffee press and some great coffee glasses.

Photographer Daniela Edburg has long incorporated knitting in to her photography, but has taken it to a new level with her recent show STITCH, including hand-knit wedding tables, wine glasses, bombs, and brains and more.

Beautiful! DesignBoom shows us "designer harri koskinen has created a collection of multi-purpose tableware consisting of glasses and a bamboo container/tray for alessi."

I love these bizarre cartoon-wood glasses, and other twisted creations, by artist Dell Stewart!

Guy has glasses tattooed on his face for Ray-Ban's Never Hide campaign. Crazy dude.

From John Harrington Design comes a chandelier that looks like an explosion of glasses falling from the ceiling.

FEATUREDVacu Vin Glass Markers - Party People!!! These are adorable mini silicon suction cup creatures to mark glasses during your next party! Even cuter in person than i imagined!

Super cute idea for a Book Rest ~ powdercoated steel with cutouts ~ ready to hold your page and your glasses...

FEATUREDGrodan restaurant in Sweden has this little red frog on everything... from menus to napkins... to the bottom of their glasses! Really fun idea for a simple way to subtly brand your drinking experience easily...

Tip-less Cordial Glasses are clever coz they got an indent at their bottom that fit snugly into the bobs in their ceramic tray. Six glasses to a tray that won’t tip, but if you drop ‘em, they do go crash!

I like the faceted volume of the new Galician Architects building in Vigo. Also, the contrast between the metal skin and the glasses give the building character amidst the urban fabric.

Love the way these glasses stack to make perfect sense...

We need more artwork on pint glasses! Here is the adorable Paper Bag Parade one from Octopus Pie

Losing your marbles ~ a series of glasses by charlotte moneypenny

Bombs Away Shot Glasses!

Tea bag press for any kind of cups or glasses. Made of teak wood for water-resisting ant high temperature protection.

Also super fun from Fishs Eddy that i was tempted to buy ~ Memo Graph Paper cooler glasses for only $2.50!!! But also fun mugs and trays (fun writing tablets)...

Fishs Eddy's Nursery Glassware ~ I just hand carried these adorable glasses back from a walk in NY ~ perfect size, beautiful illustrations!

FEATUREDChampagne Glasses!!! i finally found my favorites ~ such a gorgeous silhouette ~ and learned about the history of them too (see it in pictures!) + some of the crazy modern options now too!!!

French 5.5 Designers interpret the French Open (Roland Garros) in 3 sets. The ball tubes turn to caraf and glasses, racket to stool, and the score board plans your days.

cute reading glasses from Caroline Abram of Filao.

Beautiful modern champagne flutes. The Double-walled glass will keep your bubbly as cool as the parties you throw!

Another treat from Salone Satellite was the D.Lab stand with a long table filled with small objects. The objects would be anything for the table, such as reading lamps, flowerpots, plates and glasses.

Slanties. Ancient Inuit snow glasses return as iconic fashion accessory.

glasses for those of us that have always wished to be a freckled red-hed ~ from Kiel Mead

gorgeously designed dining/serving trays that have silicone non-slip areas for plates and glasses.

Fantastic new Spring 09 setup of the glass box in the Uniqlo Soho flagship store. Little dolls wearing original garments from the Spring collection are behind magnifying glasses for a preview of the season.

Best business card ever: LEGO employees are getting business card like this, they even try to match the look of the minifig (gender, hair, glasses) to the person.

Revive is a series of glass vases as second life of wine bottles. Die cutting and sandblasting adds different look to the bottles. The graphic on each vase represents five major air pollutants, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, O3 and the cause of those pollutants.
Most of the cause are from combustion.
One can reduce certain amount of air pollutant by reusing glasses bottles and reducing the production process of making glasses.

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On new ways to dry your wine glasses ~ Architec's Airdry Wine Glass Drying Rack

In love with the new Sophia Stemware from CB2 ~ their champagne flute is very similar to the Veuve Clicquot flutes, and the wine glasses are so pretty too!

Professor Josh Silver pioneers DIY adjustable glasses that do not need an optician. Created for 1bn of world's poorest.

Morning glasses design by Rodolphe Dogniaux.

TVs favorite serial killer, Showtime's Dexter has inspired products from dishes, flatware, candlesticks, lamps and glasses to posters, toys and jewelry. See them all here. What bloody fun!

Maxim Velcovsky designed a series of glasses that combine the traditional Lobmeyr glass shapes with chandelier parts.

I'm fascinated by these Silo - silodesign wine glasses - single walled and double walled

FEATURED4 Occhi ~ Aspesi 1910 ~ glasses that are two in one, so you never have to lose that second set again... and you can put anything you want into the frames!

Enjoying the distorted forms of Michael Anastassiades Three Champagne Glasses and One Water Glass.

Animal Shot Glasses by Goody Grams - for all you peeps out there with shot glass collections, here are some cool ones to add to the mix. They come in sets of two animals each: bear, bull, deer, moose or rhino.

FEATUREDKacper Hamilton’s theatrically sinful 7 Deadly Glasses - are glassy manifestations of all your favorite sins ~ above you see Sloth...

I knew that Pom was switching its pom tea glasses into plastic bottles... but somehow i missed that you could get Pom Pills now... cute packaging.

Move over Grimace and Hamburglar drinking glasses…make way for Jeremy Fish's SuperFishal Big Skull pint glasses.

Jeremy Brown's "This Is [NOT]" project with handmade alternative wine glasses and mugs are mesmerizing, this is my favorite of all...

Nightvision Glasses from Tag Heuer! To improve your night driving...

Eye Tracking using only the Playstation Eye Camera - very cool video

Gravitas: Portraits of a Universe in Motion ~ this DVD is available as a free torrent download. Beautiful "visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity". Works with 3D glasses!

Last week in Munich at the Optics Trade show, OPTI 2008, Porsche Design unveiled their new ultra light reading glasses, the P'8134. Colors vary from matte gold and matte titanium, Price: TBD. Pretty wild.

Diamonds in Glass (DIG) has come up with a new use for bling. They suspend real diamonds in the stems of glasses, keyrings, napkin rings, perfume bottles, ashtrays and of course, jewelry. They also have a video of the process on their site.

FEATUREDWhen is a bag more than just a gorgeous leather expedition pack? When it's filed with chilled champagne, indestructible glasses, a compass, and a silk map... Mumm Expedition Kit

FEATUREDUPDATED! I just found a video of Bryan demoing all of the tests in the Oakley O Lab! It really is even cooler to see it in video ... shooting balls at glasses on dummy heads at high velocities, playing with lasers, etc.

Francis Ford Coppola has released his Wine By The Glass. Packaged in reusable, recyclable PETa glasses molded after his favorite trattoria glasses. Enjoy fine wines everywhere.

FEATUREDInside Oakley's Rolling O Lab ~ it will bring out the hands on science geek in you ~ launching projectiles at glasses on dummies etc. Also its scared me off my regular glasses a bit!

FEATUREDToy Me has some new pieces ~ like a macho arm, robotino, and some glasses to hang your glasses from!

FEATUREDJust played with the upcoming Oakley Split Thump mp3 glasses and have a full hands on review, unboxing, and comparison with the previous model... fun packaging details, and cool removable earbuds

People buying products at Beate Uhse Sexshops receive the practical incognito-glasses for free as a give-away. So they return to the street whitout being recognized. As the sticker already claims: Beate Uhse. The discrete Sexshop.

FEATUREDGlue Glue Design has some great concepts to change the way we drink wine... like these crazy orange glasses... and an interesting bottle stopper...

FEATUREDAMT's Inside Out Martini Glass is my lust worthy kitchen necessity of the moment ~ also check out some of her other glasses, rings, and bags with bags printed on them!

Customize your glasses by stitching it. Seungyoub Oh's Stitch design won the 2006 Opus Design Award.

New candles by Japanese brand Visvim in collaboration with French perfumer Blaise Mautin. Nicely packaged looking like chemistry laboratory glasses.

Heavy Rotations - 3D Dino tee - the real question is whether you have to carry the glasses around to let people look at your chest.

Get a Glasses Skin Library Book when you buy these glasses. In this book, there are various skin pages which are published annually and trendily.

Ming Oil & Vinegar set from Jansen + Co. Looks like upside-down wine glasses...but looks can be deceiving!

Esther Derkx has added her trademark humor in the form of designs screenprinted onto wine glasses.

FEATUREDEmiko Oki's line of pint glasses leaves them looking like pint glasses on the outside, but goblets, candle holders, vases, and ashtrays on the inside...

Pallino Pint Glasses ~ coolhunting reminded me i needed to post these ~ OTTIMISTA o PESSIMISTA? My kitchen is never complete without these in both sizes.

Line extentions from voeslauer water company look sooo nice. I, personally love the shape of the glasses! [editor's note - this takes you to a pdf]

Practice your scales with ATYPYK's DO-RE-MI glasses!

Now not only does Oakley have a great selection of designs in their sun glasses line up, but it's now possible for you to customize your own pair.

Simple Human launched quite a few new products in the last week - including this U frame bi-level dishrack - love how it makes use of vertical space, and you can hang wine glasses

First-person shooter glasses. [Editor's Note: HA! Just incase you feel safest when wandering around a virtual world seeing your gun in front of you... now for the real world too!]

FEATUREDOakley's Thump2 and O Rokr ~ 1gig mp3 player and bluetooth headset glasses - Curious about wearable electronics? Check out the hands on review over at .com

Guinness pint glasses that say PURE GENIUS at the bottom... =)

'float' designed by todd macallen and stephanie forsythe for molo design of canada. Beautiful glass dish by the ones who brought you those floating glasses.

Ok one last one. the STUPIDIOTIC black bar privacy glasses are too crazy not to post here. 8-)

FEATUREDSunglasses make much better rearview mirrors in the work place.... far less obvious that you're watching those behind you (paranoid?) or staring at yourself (narcissistic?)...