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Uncategorized Monday, April 30th 2012 at 2:05 pm

This Is An Android Kegerator. Your Move, Apple

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Do you really need a highly sophisticated, Arduino-powered, Android tab-operated kegerator with its taps coming out of the Android mascot’s arms? Probably not. Of course you do. That’s why Paul Carff built “Besty“ the KegDroid, to fill this gaping hole in beer dispensing technology. Aside from just looking awesome, the KegDroid has some pretty useful functionality that can help prevent unauthorized imbibition of your favorite alcoholic potable.

Using a NFC ID card, users can sign in to the device, at which point it fetches their name and picture from their Google+ account. Then, using the custom app on the mounted Xoom tablet, users can select their choice of beer and the size of the pour, a 1oz. taste, an 8oz. pour, or a full-fledged 14oz glassful. After selection, all the drinker has to do is open the tap and hold the glass while the KegDroid dispenses the appropriate amount of hoppy goodness. All that’s left for the drinker to do is to pursue priority number 1: Drinking. This, my friends, is technology at its finest. Your move, Apple.

And check out KegDroid’s mother project, KegBot.

(via Laughing Squid)

It are go good with pizza

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=779223487 Christopher A. Sørensen-Black

    Next Phase In This Project Should Be: 

    Key Claim: Worried about people abusing the taps and driving home drunk? This feature would have you drop your keys with the Droid. Meanwhile, the Android would keep a record of how much you’ve had to drink, and as you work your way towards having had enough to exceed local state alcohol consumption levels (the Droid giving you notices of how much you’ve had every refill), on check out, the system would call the user a cab.