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The Beer Tossing Fridge
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samzenpus
on Thu Mar 08, 2007 05:56 PM
from the second-only-to-the-wheel dept.
from the second-only-to-the-wheel dept.
cmacdona101 writes "CNN is reporting on a recent Duke grad that's engineered a remote controlled Fridge that tosses him a beer at the touch of a button. The fridge can launch the beer up to 20 feet, far enough to get to his couch. The video shows the fridge using a "beer magazine clip" and a remote firing system that let you determine angles and ballistics to get the beer to your friends anywhere in the room."
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Well I'll be... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://users.mtrx.net/funnypics | Last Journal: Monday September 25 2006, @11:29AM)
Re:Well I'll be... (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest getting a dog.
Not only will it fetch beers, but you can kick it instead of beating your wife
Besides, who other than a wife would keep the fridge stocked with beer?
Re:Well I'll be... (Score:5, Funny)
Neither can my wife.
Re:Well I'll be... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:7 Dogs (Score:5, Funny)
Hebrew National- is that the brand where the hot dogs are circumcised?
Poor use of time. (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.grub.net/blog/index.html | Last Journal: Wednesday June 27, @08:48AM)
The fridge can launch the beer up to 20 feet, far enough to get to his couch.
He'll have to wait a couple of minutes for the beer to settle before opening it when using his system. A smart boozer would realize that it would take only ~20 seconds to walk to the fridge, get two beers and return to the couch with half of one beer chugged by the time he returned.
Damn rookies... The Alcohol Lifestyle isn't just fun & sloth, it's also about using your time effectively!
You're a total n00b! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday February 21 2002, @04:37PM)
Re:You're a total n00b! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Poor use of time. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.uio.no/~jaris)
Exercise and
Re:Poor use of time. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor use of time. (Score:4, Insightful)
And a proper alcoholic would pipeline the system.
Re:Poor use of time. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.chriscanfield.net/)
The guy created something that involves robots, beer, catapults, remote controls, and dangerously fast moving projectiles. He spent a lot of time creating an overly complicated and somewhat destructive method to do something trivially easy.
Videos of this is what the internet was created for!
meh. been done before. (Score:1)
Yep... (Score:5, Funny)
Already been done (Score:2)
not such a good idea... (Score:3, Insightful)
What, No Midgets? (Score:2, Funny)
What, this thing can't toss a midget? What a rip!!
end politicallyIncorrect
And what's the point of building a fridge, a robot, a beer, or a couch if they aren't running linux, they aren't ethernet enabled, and they don't have a Web 2.0 interface?!?!
The Widget of Sticky
AKA, The Adhesive Gadget
Re:What, No Midgets? (Score:5, Funny)
homer simpson would love it... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry but you don't "throw" beer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm sorry but you don't "throw" beer (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm sorry but you don't "throw" beer (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm sorry but you don't "throw" beer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm sorry but you don't "throw" beer (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday August 24, @10:02PM)
And if you really makes you sore, you go get some real beer and some glasses and you hook that somfabitch up.
What a mistake (Score:2)
But? (Score:5, Funny)
Three Laws fucking useless! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
"I'm sorry Sir, the First Law forbids me from harming a human, and alcohol is known to destroy brain cells and cause liver damage."
"Damn you, worthless piece of junk, can't even fetch a beer. Fine, I'll get it mysel--AAAGH! Holy hell! Why'd you punch me?!"
"I'm sorry, Sir, the First Law forbids me to allow through inaction a human to be harmed, even if the harm is self-inflicted."
"But you fucking punched me! That violates the First Law doesn't it!"
"I'm sorry, Sir, but the long term harm of your life of alcohol consumption outweighed the short term harm of preventing you from reaching the fridge. My circuits register deep regret that the action was necessary."
"Whatever, roboasshole. Can you at least grab me a Coke?"
"I'm sorry, Sir, but the First Law forbids me from harming a human, and high fructose corn syrup is a known cause of diabetes."
"I suppose that a meat lovers pizza with extra cheese is right out, then, too."
"Yes Sir. Sorry Sir. Also don't think you can sneak out to the pub without me knowing, Sir."
"Oh god, I'm in hell..."
guy's home page (Score:5, Informative)
I was watching this when my boss's boss walked in- (Score:2)
(http://www.gotsheep.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 13 2003, @11:49PM)
Talk about awkward.
They had it posted on YouTube, and a student I was mentoring for FIRST Robotics had sent me the link. I was laughing so hard that I didn't hear them walk into the room on an un-official tour. When they came to my spot I had to recover, so I pointed out that this was what a student wanted to do for his robot (I am SO going to burn in hell) and that I had to figure out a way to dissuade them.
Fortunately, I recognized the client (and they me) so they joined right in on the fun.
I'll give'em credit tho- anyone that can put a beer spot on the money like that deserves what happens when they drink Bud.
Two words: (Score:1)
Now all we need... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday October 02 2003, @03:46PM)
Accuracy improvement... (Score:4, Funny)
As for how to prevent the beer shower that follows... I haven't come up with something for that yet.
Two steps forward, one step back (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 23 2003, @04:07PM)
Forward: Soon, Americans Will Lack The Need To Move
Need? More like ability: this is obviously the next evolutionary step for our species. Why do we need these legs anyway? All they do is make me need to buy pants!
Back: Miller Light? In a fucking can?
Loading time in the accuracy test? (Score:1)
In the Accuracy Test, loading of the first beer into the throwing arm takes about five seconds. After that, it fires each subsequent beer in just over a second. Obviously it's not pivoting around and getting each next beer out of the magazine. Presumably someone is manually loading the throwing arm after the first beer.
A Very Cool Device, but I think the accuracy test is a bit of a cheat.
Video! (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/445498/robotic_beer
Beer Tossing? (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.loscreepers.net/)
Re:Beer Tossing? (Score:4, Funny)
This Will End in Tears (Score:4, Insightful)
Mythbusters (Score:2, Informative)
This is perfect to go with my... (Score:5, Funny)
First Improvement (Score:4, Funny)
The first improvement will be to make it voice activated.
Hey, Bitch. Toss me a cold one!
This makes the Wiimote look harmless... (Score:1)
Yesterday/Today (Score:2)
Today: Hey, Mom. I just put my beer through the Big Screen. Buy me another one.
He is from Duke, right?
If you want to replace women (Score:2)
CNN? News? (Score:2, Funny)
Has to be said: (Score:1, Funny)
I thought it said "Bear Tossing Fridge" (Score:2)
(http://web-weasel.livejournal.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 02 2006, @07:32PM)
Although, a bear tossing fridge would be good for protecting food from Yogi and BooBoo.
The politically correct version... (Score:2)
Inside the hose would be a flow sensor and an alcohol sensor. Couch potato would request a drink by blowing into the hose for a few seconds.
Once the breath flow is detected, the controller would measure the breath alcohol. If the person's breath alcohol reading is within the legal driving limit, the machine would flash a green light, and toss the person a beer. Otherwise, it would flash a red light, then toss them a non-alcoholic drink.
"beer magazine clip"? (Score:1)
Australians All Let Us Rejoice! (Score:1)
Hole in top of fridge. (Score:2)
Thomas Jefferson's Version (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Thursday April 18 2002, @07:50PM)
If you take the Monticello tour, they point out the little mini dumb-waiter that brought wine up from the cellar. Of course, there was no remote control. He just told his slaves what to bring up, and then they presumeably operated the mechanism with a hand-crank or something. It's been a long time since I took that tour.
This robot has a couple obvious flaws. First, the arm has to rotate to get into firing position. He should have the beer elevator on the other side. Next the beers shouldn't have to ride the eleveator. It should be more like a sprung rifle magazine, so that there is always one beer right by the "chamber", ready to be loaded and fired. These two changes alone should increase his firing rate considerably. The first time you get a beer from this thing it's fun, but once you realize what a painfully slow rate of fire it has, the novelty will wear off.
It's a cool robot though. Way better than I could do, I'm sure.
more slashvertising! ;) (Score:1)
Good idea... (Score:1)
Just go get a dog, (Score:1)
Beer fetching dogs:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beer+
Ouch. (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Monday April 02 2007, @07:19PM)
couch? (Score:2)
That wouldn't be a good thing, even if it was a beer.
Senary Magazine ? (Score:1)
Hey, shouldn't the magazine size be base 6? If I only have a six-pack, I'm wasting capacity, and if I have a twelve-pack, I've got to get up to reload. Then again, I guess you can reload while you're unloading.
There's gotta be a WKRP reference somewhere in here to be had ... the machine gets *faster* at tossing 'em the more Johnny drinks?
big picture (Score:1)
Physicists? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 02 2003, @01:54PM)
In Soviet Russia (Score:1)
Oh damn that's old (Score:1)
Just imagine ... (Score:1)
(http://datacomm.org/)
Re:wow (Score:1)
(http://geektechnique.org/)
just my two cents...