Today's digital milieu and obesity rates in children are producing a less physically active lifestyle. The financial resources of families, schools, communities, states, and nations are stressed trying to meet yesterday's standard of living.
What if coffee consumption could make a positive contribution to all of these issues?
Fun Cup is a durable plastic cup that allows mobile consumers to still purchase the same recognizable shape used today without the guilt of waste or needless pollution. Each Fun Cup is designed to be used as a toy after its initial use for holding coffee.
Fun Cup promotes an active lifestyle of physical activity, intellectual games, and rational inquiry into the surrounding world. Fun Cups can be collected for donations to schools or community groups to alleviate dwindling athletic budgets. Uses include field / goal markers, bowling pins, chess pieces, golf tees / cups, and stilts to name a few. The universal form and appeal of the cup form easily lend themselves to inventive game-play and uses by children and adults.
Plastic is highly durable and easier to recycle than paper. It is the perfect material for an object with multiple purposes over a long life cycle.
Fun Cups could be produced in seasonal batches per region to maximize that areas culture, geography, and weather. Chess pieces could be produced in the coldest months of the winter while the lawn toss cups could be produced in the summer time.
Children's toys are currently a growth industry, even in an economic recession. Parents will always spend money on their children, especially if there is a direct educational or physical benefit from it. Playing is a form of learning.
Next time you buy a cup of coffee consider your used cup could one day wind up on a gym floor of a local school for basketball drills. Also imagine seeing a picture of an outdoor chess tournament held on the other side of the world, using the same coffee cup you just drank from. It is a very rewarding feeling, but this could only happn if the cup of coffee you purchased was a Fun Cup.
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jblevinson
Take it further - for something like the bowling pins, why not make the cups shaped differently, in order to resemble bowling pins? Appeal to the collector market, but give the products another use than sitting on the shelf to be re-used as cups.
You've mentioned schools, chess tournaments, etc; how would the cups be collected from the end consumer and delivered to these places that need them?
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cbabyak idea owner
Thanks for the great feedback. The collection of cups could come in the form of voting. If a school needed more cups for its curriculum it could simply post a question on a billboard in front of the school. There could be multiple columns of answers. To vote or answer the question individuals would stack their used cup under the answer they support the most. The public viewing of a question and the physical mass of a response is compelling enough to draw people to drink coffee and contribute their opinion, their 'cup'. Everyone's vote would be tangibly visible and present. The school could collect cups when the vote is over and also gather public opinion. (idea / image to follow). The precedent for this comes from The Paper Clips Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Clips_Project
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clari
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shaunabe
+ I can certainly see how parents might be encouraged to switch to a funcup for their kids, but what of everyone else?
+ keep going with the applications - what about stacking blocks?
+ the process of collecting and redistributing used cups will need some thought, too
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