Eight Gadgets Aimed at Upgrading Football Watch Parties
This roundup presents eight products intended to improve living-room football watch parties. The picks include the DraftPro Top Can Opener, which removes a can’s entire top for a smoother pour, and PhaseTherma, a phase-change cooling core that keeps ice solid for up to 150 hours without power. The article frames the items as solutions for hosting logistics such as drinks, cooling, and room-filling audio.
The roundup presents eight items as fixes for common watch-party logistics: pouring drinks, preserving ice, and filling a room with sound. DraftPro, designed by Shu Kanno and built in Japan, cuts away a can’s full lid for a smoother pour and can also hold ice or mixed drinks; it costs $60 and works with many cans, though bottles need another opener.
PhaseTherma, priced at $149, uses a phase-changing core to maintain frozen ice for as long as 150 hours without power, making it suitable for porches or garages. The battery-free amplifying speaker, designed by Ooi Masato from Duralumin, relies on sound-channeling shape and golden-ratio proportions to amplify a phone’s speaker, with no pairing or charging required.
Products like these could subtly reshape casual hosting by lowering small friction points around drinks, cooling, and audio, letting hosts spend less time troubleshooting and more time with guests. They may also reinforce a trend toward specialized, premium gadgets for short-lived events, which could appeal to frequent entertainers but feel unnecessary or costly to occasional viewers. Their impact likely remains modest, affecting mostly households that already invest in home entertainment and social gatherings.