I walk to work, I often stop on the way and buy a coffee. Alone, this action would be fine. I have two hands, one for the coffee and one kept in reserve for itches and doors. However, I often like to buy a breakfast sandwich. This puts me in a very awkward position. I can hold both the coffee and the sandwich easily, but then I can't really unwrap the sandwich. So I have to stop and put the coffee down, eat about half the sandwich, so that it's manageable with one hand. Then I can carry on, sandwich in one hand, coffee in the other and a dangerously low hand-reserve. Imagine you had a cup holder about your person. Cars have long had a variety of folding arrangements that would prove a useful cup-holder resource. The belt seems initially logical, but moving legs might interfere here, so I think some form of cross-chest strap or possibly build it into a sturdy jacket, some form of gimbal arrangement may be appropriate for those fussy about relative beverage- gravity orientation. This would free up both hands for eating the sandwich, while holding it may be effectively achieved with one hand on a temporary basis. For example while attending to an itch, opening a door or investigating a newly-acquired sauce stain. Every now and then, the coffee could be accessed for the usual reasons. Such a device would be a boon to sandwich eaters, standing-around-in-very-cold-weather enthusiasts and the one-handed alike.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 05 2013

(?) Folding cup holder http://www.germansu...7551&cat=387&page=1
Needs a gimbal and a shoulder strap [bs0u0155, Dec 05 2013]

Two Cups Of Coffee Two_20Cups_20Of_20Coffee
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best … [8th of 7, Dec 05 2013]

The basic model just holds a book, but the luxury model comes with cupholder and sandwich slot. Reading_20while_20walking
[normzone, Dec 05 2013]

No-spill coffee cup http://www.gocontig...ess-travel-mug.html
Get one like this. This one in particular is excellent. [Custardguts, Dec 05 2013]

(?) http://www.youtube....watch?v=cTiXtnlhZYU [spidermother, Dec 09 2013]

A belt-mounted cup-holder would work, and would have a sort of Batman utility belt resonance.
-- hippo, Dec 05 2013


I heard utility belt resonance was a small, but significant cause of infertility?
-- bs0u0155, Dec 05 2013


That's why Batman wore such tight clothing in the groinal area.
-- hippo, Dec 05 2013


The answer to the problem is a cupholding hat, shirley ?

Hats to carry cans of beer are WKTE. They have a holder on each side to allow balance to be maintained.

This inevitably leads to the idea of the Two Cups of Coffee hat.

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-- 8th of 7, Dec 05 2013


As an alternative, we could make adult sippy cups fashionable.
-- RayfordSteele, Dec 05 2013


Starbucks already have, handles or no, you still need at least one hand.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 05 2013


//Hats to carry cans of beer are WKTE.//

My dentist suggested that I drink coffee through a straw. I will resist this to my last breath.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 05 2013


[+] for the notion, but mostly //cupholding hat//
-- FlyingToaster, Dec 05 2013


+ for attending to an itch and low hand reserve
-- zeno, Dec 05 2013


This is a great idea, I would suggest using a no-spill coffee cup such as the one I linked (that way you don't need to be as good at gimballing the cup).

In fact, a side-hip holster would work fine with something like this.
-- Custardguts, Dec 05 2013


I already have one of those! Mine is orange. It's currently sat on my kitchen counter with some no- longer fresh green tea in it.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 05 2013


Oh they are the very devil to clean if you were to say, leave sweet milky tea in them for a couple weeks by mistake.

Another solution would be a hot drinks-compatible camelbak.
-- Custardguts, Dec 06 2013


An insulated CamelBak would be a useful development. What with recent rucksack developments, bags are no longer in contact with your back, so I took my CamelBak-equipped bag up a mountain recently only for all the water to freeze. Most inconvenient. I already knew there was plenty of FROZEN water up there, I didn't need my own liquid water submitting to peer pressure.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 06 2013


[Bs0] - you just need enough ethanol in the water so that it doesn't freeze.....

Oh, and I thought insulated camelbak's were already a thing. Could be wrong..
-- Custardguts, Dec 09 2013


they are, as standalone units, not as part of my climbing bag though. I found using warm water and an old bubble-wrap envelope the key.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 09 2013



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