Booze Brother Boffins Invent Cocktail Cloud
It has often been said that that the majority of things scientists and inventors do with their time is a complete waste. And a lot of the time, I agree with that sentiment. However what two guys named Bompas and Parr, makers of mad jelly sculptures and other “food architecture”, have come up with is worthy of an award. The pair of Eton-schooled eccentric Englishment have come up with what they call a ‘breathable cocktail’ and set it up in the middle of central London. The idea is that you can walk into this “bar” which is filled with a massive cloud of alcoholic fumes, and get drunk just by walking around. And direct absorption of the alcohol, apparently, gets you far more drunk than drinking alone.
The device works by hooking up an industrial humidifier to a healthy supply of Hendrick’s Gin and tonic water. Humidifiers are usually used in manufacturing plants such as in the printing or tobacco industries where air humidity is crucial. But normally of course you plug them into a supply of plain old water! However these guys had the idea of making an alcoholic steam room where people got inebriated simply by walking around and chatting.
The company that provided the humidifier, JS Humidifiers, are specialists in air conditioners, heaters and the like, and would normally be the place to go for a ceiling fan or a portable air conditioner this summer. It won’t be long before some student somewhere tries this in his bedroom, sticks it on YouTube and then sales of humidifiers will go through the oroof…!As well as that, it surely can’t be long before some posh cocktail bar gets in on the act and sets this up full time in one of their rooms? Who knows, in a few years time this kind of ‘drinking’ could replace sitting around in the pub watching the TV. I wouldn’t hold my breath for that one!
