Tag: ALCOHOL

Brewing beer at home can be incredibly difficult, as dealing with fickle yeasts and proteins can often result in a skunky, cloudy and unappetizing brew. James Collins, a Boston University synthetic biologist, and a team of researchers investigating synthetically engineered genetic circuits, used beer as a model for developing refining processes that could eventually be applied to biofuels and ...

The 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco has honored Twitter, everyone's favorite microblogging site, with its very own beer. That's exactly what Twitter needs: more random promotion. Spring Tweet is a light and floral spring ale, and it went on sale Monday. The inspiration behind the new brew was the large amount of "tweetups" (face-to-face rendezvouses organized on Twitter) going on inside ...

Ohio resident Kile Wygle, 28, learned a difficult lesson this week. Be sure to sober up a little bit before you call the authorities, especially after you've wrecked your motorized barstool. Yep, the ingenious Wygle affixed a rigged-up chassis and a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine to a barstool, enabling him to cruise home at up to 40 miles per hour, all the while feeling like he never ...

Bandai, the company that makes Tamagotchi and Power Ranger toys, is targeting a slightly more mature audience (we hope) with its newest novelty item: a beer can simulator. The $9 toy is a plastic recreation of the top of a beer can, complete with a pop top that plays an electronic sound simulating the opening of a beer can every time you pull it. Every 30 times you pull the tab, it plays what ...

You know you've watched 'Star Wars' a few too many times when you start to see droids everywhere you look. This might just be the case with artist Paul Loughridge, creator of the droid you see above, called Beer2D3, which was crafted using a Heineken mini-keg and a lot of ingenuity. Loughridge, who goes by the handle Lockwasher, has made numerous robots and gadgets for shows and exhibits, mostly ...

Conventional wisdom tells us that, in our direst economic times, the alcohol business does pretty well. Possibly responding to this phenomenon, and hoping worried citizenry won't crawl into a whiskey bottle, the federal government has now launched the Rethinking Drinking Web site, the Wall Street Journal reports. Operated by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ...

Do you love to drink but get exhausted by having to constantly raise your hand to your mouth? Lucky for you, UrbanTrend.com has a solution. Thanks to the new Alcohol Shot Gun, all you have to do is "pour in an ounce of your favorite drink into the cartridge, cock the trigger, point and shoot." Once armed with the shotgun, you have license to kill as many brain cells as you please without any ...

We've heard that there are some folks who want to drink alcohol, but, for some reason or another, don't find drinking to be quite fun enough as it is. We're not sure who those people are, but they'll surely jump for joy when they lay eyes on the Russian Roulette Beer Bong. The glorified, mechanized funnel asks a drinker to fill its reservoir with beer, place the tube in his or her mouth, spin a ...

How's this for dual purpose? Zhao Wencai and Li Zhoumu, two graduate students at the China University of Geosciences, have concocted a prototype device which checks for two important bits of information before allowing a car to start. First, it scans your fingerprint to make sure you're on the authorized driver database; second, it takes a long, hard look (okay, so maybe 20 seconds isn't all that ...

Here's a bit of information that probably isn't too shocking -- the louder the bar, the more people drink. Now there is hard scientific evidence to back up what to many probably just seemed like common sense. According to a study being released in the journal 'Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,' an increase in the decibel level of music within the bar directly correlates to an ...

Boy, it's a good thing 'The Love Boat's' Isaac is no longer on the air to see this one: He, like all of mankind in due time, has been replaced by a robot -- minus the sexual innuendo, of course. The $2,275 MyFountain is an automatic beverage dispensing system. Yes, other attempts at mechanized imbibery have come before it, but this puppy is a cut above the rest, boasting a touch screen, password ...

After just three days of hard time in the clink, Paris Hilton was released and placed under house arrest ... or, palace arrest, as is more likely the case. While it's possible she'll be back in the orange jumpsuit before too long, we thought we'd take this opportunity to see just how house arrest anklets actually work. Standard Anklet As TMZ has learned, Paris's newest fashion accessory is a ...