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Hold the Rocks: This Digital Stick Concept Chills Cocktails Without Ice With this slim smart wand in your drink, you could totally chill on the ice.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Chilling Sip Stick

Liquor on the rocks is a chilled treat, right up until the rocks melt and water it down. Sometimes a little melted ice is a good thing, mellowing a stiff drink out. Other times it's not, especially if you're a slow sipper who doesn't like watery cocktails.

Related: Your Next Cocktail Could Be Concocted By This Robotic Bartender

If only there were a new, ice-free way to keep your drink cold -- and colder longer. Enter the Chilling Sip Stick, a digital cooling stick/stirrer envisioned by Yanko Design that would quickly chill your drinks, yep, without ice.

Too bad it's just a concept for now because it looks pretty -- forgive the cheesy pun here -- cool. The electric, rechargeable blue wand, which looks a lot like a chopstick, is super simple. It features only an on/off switch and a "superconductivity cooling panel" that appears to be made of metal.

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Users would be able to set the temperature on the cooling panel to "help maintain the same coolness till the last drop." A pendulum embedded in the Chilling Sip Stick would continuously chill the liquid it's submerged in. No freezer necessary and no alcohol-diluting ice. And to that, we say cheers.

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Kim Lachance Shandrow

Former West Coast Editor

Kim Lachance Shandrow is the former West Coast editor at Entrepreneur.com. Previously, she was a commerce columnist at Los Angeles CityBeat, a news producer at MSNBC and KNBC in Los Angeles and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Government Technology magazine, LA Yoga magazine, the Lowell Sun newspaper, HealthCentral.com, PsychCentral.com and the former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Coop. Follow her on Twitter at @Lashandrow. You can also follow her on Facebook here

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