(From The USA Today -- By Maria Puente) Do college kids really need another excuse to drink?
Apparently so, judging from the popularity of interactive drinking devices such as SUCK & BLOW.
In bars and at beach parties, guys and gals are hooking up via SUCK & BLOW, 6-inch plastic tubes filled with wine-fueled gelatin shots containing about 13% alcohol.
One participant blows the gelatin from one end of the safety-sealed tube, the other sucks it up -- thus establishing a "relationship" that otherwise would not have developed by the old-fashioned method of drinking from a glass.
[Freakin' genius!]
"It actually brings two people together," says DOUG HAMER, 36, who with business partner BRIAN HIGGINS, 35, invented SUCK & BLOW at a water festival in 2001.
The two got the idea after watching guys funneling beer and girls consuming JELL-O shots. "We thought, 'Wouldn't it be cool to bring those together?'"
[Sure beats a REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUP, eh?]
The devices retail for about $2 at liquor stores or $3-$6 in bars. The inventors have made more than 1 million of them so far, and they're aiming to produce 20 million a year.
[Cha-ching.]
"We've been surprised at the great reception they're getting for 40th birthday parties, baby showers, even wedding receptions," Hamer says.
[Baby showers?]
Also new in the interactive drinking department --
THE SHOT-GLASS CHECKERBOARD SET, such as the one by ARC INTERNATIONAL. Every time a "checker" is jumped, the player has to drink the contents. It's sold at retailers such as
BED BATH AND BEYOND and TARGET.
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