The Coolest Way to Open a Bottle of Wine

Yeah, that's one way to open a bottle of wine.

Shatter the glass, yeah.

It causes some secondary challenges (possible shards of glass in the wine, a messy lip of broken glass), all of which seem to have brought about solutions to those challenges.

As neat as the science is (hot glass contracts quickly and unevenly when cooled suddenly, aka thermal shock), the whole process just seems needlessly Rube Goldbergian to me.