{"title":"Zero Gravity","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"zero-gravity-tistix","title":"Zero Gravity TiSTIX","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2025, an astronaut carried 12 pairs of TiSTIX titanium chopsticks to the International Space Station for Expedition 73. They spent 148 days aboard, completed 2,368 orbits of Earth and covered 62.8 million miles. Nothing was changed for the trip. No engineering adaptation, no material substitution. They flew exactly as we sell them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZero Gravity is the finish that marks that flight. Si Golraine, a New York artist who works with raw electrical voltage, anodizes each pair by hand. Thin-film interference on the oxide layer does the rest: gold, orbit blue and a deep violet that shift as the light moves. The color is physics, not pigment, so no two pairs come out the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath is the TiStix we've always made. Grade 5 titanium (Ti-6Al-4V), turned on a CNC Swiss lathe in New Jersey and finished by hand on Staten Island. Precise enough to survive a rocket launch, and balanced enough to disappear in the hand at dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt for orbit. Mostly used for noodles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zero Gravity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67530043621651,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/1749\/8643\/files\/zero-gravity-zero-gravity-tistix-1260084590.jpg?v=1790607490"},{"product_id":"zero-gravity-tistix-collectors-edition","title":"Zero Gravity TiSTIX Collectors Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty individually numbered pairs, and there will not be a twenty-first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Collector's Edition marks Expedition 73, when astronauts from multiple countries and space agencies brought TiSTIX aboard the International Space Station for 148 days and 2,368 orbits. The design went up unchanged and came home the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSi Golraine finishes each pair by hand in a deep space anodize with gold grooves, running current through the titanium until the oxide layer shows its color. Each pair is engraved with its number, 01 through 20. It arrives in a hand-stamped leather case by Keegan Uhl of One Star Leather Works in Los Angeles, debossed with the ISS and \"ZERO GRAVITY TISTIX\" A certificate of authenticity and a canvas tote reading \"One small step for chopsticks.\" come with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrade 5 titanium, turned in New Jersey, hand-finished on Staten Island, cased in Los Angeles. The whole chain is American.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors who think about provenance the way watch collectors think about reference numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zero Gravity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67530141303059,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/1749\/8643\/files\/zero-gravity-zero-gravity-tistix-1260084590.jpg?v=1790607490"},{"product_id":"zero-gravity-leather-tistix-case","title":"Zero Gravity Leather TiSTIX Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eKeegan Uhl cuts and stamps these by hand at One Star Leather Works in Los Angeles, the same shop behind every TiStix case we carry. The Zero Gravity version adds a deboss of the International Space Station and \"TISTIX ZERO GRAVITY\" across the leather. It's the same case that comes with the Collector's Edition, now sold on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis case has been to orbit, minus the deboss. NASA's photos from Expedition 73, published on \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/amf-iss073e0248489\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"TiSTIX aboard ISS, NASA.gov\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003enasa.gov\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, show them holding TiSTIX, mounted to the inside wall of the station where the crew gathers to eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt fits every TiStix style and keeps the tips covered in a bag, a drawer or a carry-on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrown or Black. Chopsticks not included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zero Gravity","offers":[{"title":"Brown","offer_id":67530228924691,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black","offer_id":67530228957459,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/1749\/8643\/files\/chopsticks-one-star-leather-goods-california-brown-one-star-leather-tistix-case-43024282616083.jpg?v=1693339207"}],"url":"https:\/\/eatingtools.com\/collections\/zero-gravity.oembed","provider":"Eatingtools","version":"1.0","type":"link"}