Selected for the British Council's Talent exhibition at the Milan furniture fair 2006, this hideous piece of crockery presents a simple solution to an age-old problem: hot mugs burning your hands. It's basically a molded ceramic heatsink in the shape of a cup, a radial ruff of fins creating the desired cooling effect. So, instead of being burned by the cup, your hands are "gently warmed" by it as the now-tripled surface area results in your Earl Grey going cold in 10 minutes.
This comes courtesy of Steven Reed, and the linked site presents a number of other ingenious hacks for everyday objects.
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