Tag: BEER

In the early '80s, amber was all the rage with scientists, who realized that the hardened tree sap could contain specimens and creatures with perfectly intact DNA. Extract the sample, clone the DNA. This was the premise that inspired Michael Crichton to write 'Jurassic Park.' Unfortunately, the cloning part was (and still is) a long way into the future, and the notion died. Partially died, that ...

Another sure sign that our capitalism system is broken: While PhD-educated physicists take jobs at Wal-Mart and single mothers hold down four jobs just to put factory-farmed food on the table, the creators of the iPhone game Beer Pong Challenge are making more than $7,000 a month in money from in-game advertising. Business Insider broke it down, and figured out that for every 1,000 impressions, ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Now making the rounds of the Web: North Korea's first ever television ad -- a strange, two-minute clip for Taedog River Beer, "pride of Pyongyang." [Foreign Policy] ...

It seems like everyone and everything under the sun tweets these days; pets, plants, and even household appliances are doing it. So the folks at 360i, a New York-based digital company, decided it was about time their office beer tap had a voice on the popular microblogging site, too. Thus, the Tweeting Bar was born. Every time a frothy beer is poured from the tap, data is sent to a computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fine folks at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company may have just found the second best use for beer ever: powering cars. The company has purchased MicroFueler, a badass contraption whose sole purpose is to produce ethanol from water, sugar and yeast -- the latter, of course, being the major byproduct of beer fermentation. In other words, beer leftovers are being turned into ethanol, making Sierra ...

Those who dabble in "The Lazy" and looking to delve deeper into its warm, snuggly embrace, need to find a bunch of money and a friend with a soldering iron right about now. BaR2D2, the work of an inventor named Jamie Price, is a radio-controlled robot with such glorious ideas as sound-activated neon lighting, a motorized ice/mixing drawer, six-bottle shot dispenser, and a "motorized beer ...

It's two things that are inevitably tied to one another each Sunday -- LCD TVs and alcohol. Now, Micro Matic is bringing them together like never before, and only the most serious of in-home bartenders need apply. The v-POD comes in a couple of shapes and colors to best suit your needs, with the stainless steel Kool-Rite boasting a half-dozen taps, stereo speakers and an inbuilt 10-inch LCD. ...

In keeping with the close kinship between beer and technology, the Scotsman company has introduced the innovative Trufill beer dispenser, Uber Review and Foodbev report. With Trufill's pioneering design, beer enters the glass through the bottom, allowing a bartender (or overly enthusiastic drinker) to pour as many as 10 pints of beer in 10 seconds. This speedy dispensing technology could be a ...

Beer pouring robot at TMCO open house from beerorkid on Vimeo. It seems like every time we turn around, some enterprising boozehound is figuring out some way to automate the dispersal of intoxicating beverages. Some, like the RC Cooler, cater to the lazy party host, while others, like this Lego contraption, are for the geeky among us who have a need to make everything more difficult than ...

There is something about ingenious, geeky, DIY projects that sets our hearts aflutter, especially when they involve beer. An intrepid geek has combined Lego building bricks, the iPhone, and Pownce (a Twitter competitor), to construct an automatic, beer-pouring robot. The Lego arm monitors a Pownce RSS feed for the instruction "pour." That word triggers the robot's arm, tilts the beer bottle, ...