We have all been to 7-11, and bought a Slurpee, it's only American. Slurpees start out mighty small, I think they start at 6oz, but correct me if I am wrong (I've never actually looked at those dinky little things). The Slurpee moves up through the size ranks all the way up to the new MASSIVE, 64oz DOUBLE GULP.

The two biggest problems with the Slurpee today are; it melts too fast, and it is hard to know how much is left. It is nearly impossible to drink the entire beverage before the Slurpee starts is phase change to a liquid. To solve this problem, 7-11 invent ed the Extreme Gulp, which was years ahead of it s time. It included, a HANDLE, and INSULATING action. This cup was great and all, but it had one serious down flaw, it was only 52oz. Yeah sure 52oz sounds like a lot, and it actually is (it fills me up, and I cannot eat dinner), but as we say in America, "bigger is better", so the Double Gulp was born. The second problem lies in the fact that in order to see how much Slurpee is left, you must look through the clear lid and examine (very tedious work) how much Slurpee is left, but hear at virtualfreshair.com we like to take laziness to a new level. To conquer both of these problems we invented the SHEV suit (Slurpee Hazardous Enviornment Suit).

To solve the first problem, we needed to some how insulate the Slurpee cup from our scorching Virginia heat, but we will take care of that problem later. To solve the problem not knowing how full the Slurpee is, we invented the LED meter. Basicly, we drilled 9 holes in the Slurpee cup (1 on the bottom, 8 on the side). In each hole we inserted a wire. The wire on the bottom has a very small charge, but still strong enough to conduct through Slurpee. Then, if Slurpee is present to conduct the charge, it would touch the wires running up the side of the cup. If the charge is completed, a transistor is turned on, allowing a LED to turn on. This in turn singnals that the Slurpee has reached a certain level in the cup.

As you can see, there is a lot of soldering, and burning of fingers involved * Cough *. But after 4.5 hours of tedious work, messing up * Cough again *, and eating, the electonical device was done. It looked mighty ugly, but that is totally beside the point, it worked.

As you can see in the image above on the left, we spent much time hot gluing our wires into the Slurpee cup. In the second image, all of the wires are glued on, and the ciruit board is openly showing, but this still leaves the other problem unsolved, heat dissapation. But have no fear, the Home Depot is here, for $8ish, we bout some insulating tape made for pipes, it is quite ugly, but it gets the job done very nicley, and it covers up all of the ugly wires.

It is clearly visible that the cup is not very pleasing to the eye, but it certainly turns heads when you go to 7-11. If you can see the small red dots towards the bottom of the cup, you are looking at the 8 indicator LEDs. In the final picture I am about to show you, you can clearly see two of the LEDs lit.

I am using my finger to press the pulse button on the bottom of the cup. The cup runs off of a 9 volt battery, and lasts for about 3 years (results may vary). Since only the bottom two lights are lit, it means that most of the Slurpee is gone, and I will have to call for an airlift of more Slurpee soon. It actually means that I have 1/4th of the cup left (2/8). And there you have it, the electic Slurpee display/insulation device.