The Gömböc was developed by Gábor Domokos (of Budapest University of Technology and Economics) and Péter Várkonyi (of Princeton University).
The Gömböc mimics the “self-righting” abilities of shelled animals such as turtles and beetles. Such a shape was conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold as a mono-monostatic body.
from the Wikipedia entry
An arcane, pure-science object in search of an application. Why not a self-righting Gömböc bottle? In the video above, it already looks a bit like a drunk, but expensive whiskey bottle lurching and reeling about. Until it eventually sobers up. (Or am I anthropomorphizing again?)
There have been lots of self-righting containers invented over the years. Training cups and the like. Usually involving ballast of some sort—and hence not the mathematically-pure monostatic polytope that John Conway and other mathematical types have long puzzled over. (Conway, M. Goldberg and R.K. Guy’s 19-sided monostatic polytope can be seen: here.)
I’ve already compared a package to Weebles once on this blog. (here) The Gömböc—(which has a pretty cute logo, by the way)—also has an official website on which this lofty mathematical object compares itself to the lowly Weeble.
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
You have a great collection of photos of bottle houses!!!! I have been around since the 50’s and am an Artist with all kind of ideas for creative structures. My oldest friend is a Mason, makes things out of rock, steel, glass, concrete. I’m sending him your site info. Please email me, if you get any new info or photos of new buildings or projects out of glass!! Thanks for sharing! Paula Swauger-Merino
Came to this site to find ideas to reuse bottles. Every time I walk by a dumpster, especially those around bars and restaurants, I feel I need to find a way to re-use these bottles. Most of them are so beautiful and it is such a waste to discard them. I guess from now on we’ll be saving bottles.
I can see them being used as a decorative wall on a patio or in the yard too.
Does anybody know where to buy these WOBO bottles?