Straws – giant flexible straws long enough to reach from the floor to the mouth of a person lying peacefully but thirstily in bed.
(this submission was inspired by a fantastic hangover)
The reason this would be an improvement over…say…a cup, is that in order drink from a cup one has to sit up, and in order to sit up one has to no longer be laying down; a tiresome and annoying procedure that is the exact opposite of what one is lying in a bed for in the first place.
Case Closed.
Whether or not the effort that would go into both the use and maintenance of a giant hangover straw would effectively counterbalance the above mentioned value of such a system is largely irrelevant. Any arguments to the contrary should reference the the fact that I do in fact have a fantastic hangover and subsequently am not listening.