Described herein is a container for a beverage as well as a means for drinking the beverage contained therein. In at least one embodiment, there is a container and straw combination that allows for a unique transportation of the liquid through the straw. The straw may be configured to pass through a lid of the container multiple times and pass through a hollow or channel positioned above the lid.

A beverage container includes a container bottle and an elevated container lid. The elevated container lid includes a lid member detachably and coaxially connected to a top end of the container bottle to cover a top opening of the container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on the lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from the base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the mouthpiece portion of the elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and the drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into the interior cavity until reaching the bottom wall of the container bottle.

A dynamically deployable band. The dynamically deployable band includes a bistable metal spring body sized in length to coil around a limb of a human. The bistable metal spring body has a straight state and a coiled state. A straw is coupled to and spans along a substantial length of the bistable metal spring body.

A drinking straw has a display arrangement mounted thereon or attached thereto, where the display arrangement bears a graphic representation, such as an advertisement or an amusing graphic representation. When the drinking straw is disposed within a cup, the display arrangement is adapted to engage an exterior surface of the cup, so that the straw remains upright in the cup adjacent the side thereof.

An apparatus may be configured to test a beverage, the apparatus may include but is not limited to, a food container, wherein the food container includes a material. An indicator may be combined with at least a portion of the material of the food container, wherein the indicator may be associated with a brand profile that may identify a brand of the food, wherein the indicator may visibly react when the indicator is contacted with the food to show whether the food is identified as the brand of the food, and wherein the visible reaction may be shown on at least the portion of the material of the food container via the indicator combined with at least the portion of the material of the food container.

The invention involves the incorporation and enablement of multiple interactive elements into high-volume consumables products to increase utility, function and features of the consumable product at minimal incremental cost and adjustment to production and manufacturing processes. The invention further reports processes and compositions that enable consumable products with differentiating features which product would otherwise be deficient for their intended use and application.

An apparatus is configured to detect a beverage that is contaminated with a substance. The apparatus may include a testing material, wherein the testing material may comprise a cavity having a complementary shape to a molecule associated with the substance. The apparatus may include a taste substance filling the cavity, wherein the taste substance filling the cavity may bleed out into the beverage when the molecule associated with the substance in the beverage replaces the taste substance filling the cavity, wherein a taste of the beverage may change when the taste substance bleeds out into the beverage as an indicator that the substance is present in the beverage.

Disclosed is a reusable combination corrugated drinking straw and whistle. The drinking straw has an elongated tubular body with a fluid passage running therethrough. The tubular body is manufactured from metal (e.g., stainless steel) and has a plurality of corrugations extending radially outward therefrom. The tubular body is flexible and adapted to be bent so as to enable a user of the corrugated drinking straw to sip a beverage from a cup or the like. The corrugated drinking straw can also be used to produce an audible whistling sound when it is removed from the cup. The whistling sound is achieved when the user blows his breath against a blowing end of the drinking straw that is cut through one of the corrugations that extends radially outward from the tubular body. In this case, the corrugated drinking straw is wider at its blowing end than at the tubular body thereof.

A beverage container includes a container bottle and an elevated container lid. The elevated container lid includes a lid member detachably and coaxially connected to a top end of the container bottle to cover a top opening of the container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on the lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from the base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the mouthpiece portion of the elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and the drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into the interior cavity until reaching the bottom wall of the container bottle.

A decorative drinking straw assembly for use with a beverage container includes a hollow cylindrical straw having a decorative subassembly releasably attachable about an exterior surface of the straw. A decorative assembly includes one or more decorative elements secured to an attachment sleeve. The attachment sleeve has an inner diameter adapted to snugly fit over the outer diameter of the straw. A flange element provided positioned beneath the decorative assembly prevents inadvertently detached decorative elements from falling into a beverage contained within the beverage container.