Wine glass mask launched on Kickstarter

Industrial designer James Piatt has launched a wine glass mask dubbed as ‘the world’s first wine glass contoured to fit your face’, via a Kickstarter campaign.

The wine glass mask is designed to fit the contours of your face

Appearing sinisterly similar to a gas mask, the mask conforms to your face and reportedly increases the perceptibility of aromas and flavours in your glass of wine.

The nozzles on the front of the glass are said to reduce the flow of oxygen and nitrogen in the air and increase their velocity, which “lifts more wine vapors off the surface enriching the aroma and flavour”, according to Piatt.

Your face or mine?

The Wine Glass Mask has so far only received $410 in funding of a $78,000 target. The campaign is due to end on 4 March, so Piatt hasn’t got long to reach his goal.

If successful, he will start selling the clear glasses at $25 a pop in June, with a blue version costing $30. Each glass can hold up to 266ml of wine.

Part functional and part novelty, the glass is designed to concentrate the smell of fruits, spices, herbs and flowers in the wine while controlling the flow of oxygen.

Piatt promises that the glasses can be molded into an ergonomic shape that fits your face, boldly claiming “your wine drinking experience will never be the same”.

“Why not create a wine glass that is an extension of the face instead of the table setting?” he ponders on his Kickstarter page. The glass was made using 3D solid modelling software via a process where molten glass is pressed into a five part mold.

Though Piatt has this warning for potential investors: “Many faces were measured to achieve the optimal shape, however due to the unlimited variety of face shapes performance results may vary from person to person.”

Those interested in funding the campaign can do so here.