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Programmatically Controlled Juicer
An anonymous reader writes "The Juicer is a wirelessly controlled, programmable juice maker which will mix each ingredient of a recipe to the exact proportions every time.
The Juicer will take a recipe selection serially via either the keyboard or the wireless remote and dispense the juices into the cup below. Force and Photo sensors are incorporated to control the precise pouring. Wireless communication is controlled with two microcontrollers operating at a frequency of 433 MHz. All of this is housed by a big red frame custom made from 4130 steel."
This thing looks pretty frikkin' sweet. So I could put oranges in one slot, a grape fruit in the other, and pour vodka and ice in the third, and it would make me a fresh squeezed "breakfast smoothie?" I'll take two!
Will this be the kind, benign wireless juice making machine, or the bad-mouthed, citrus-raping kind?
The Juicer will take a recipe selection serially via either the keyboard or the wireless remote and dispense the juices into the cup below.
Is this a design flaw, or is it specifically aimed at the type of people who always leave their TV-remotes beside the TV?
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
Hmmm wireless. Now I only need someone (or something) to bring the juice to me.
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That's why version 2 is going to have a PRJG (Pseudo-Random Juice Generator).
And he looks like this.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
Prof Frink: "Finally, the perfect recipe for mixing juice. It turns out the secret ingredient is... love!? Who's been tampering with this thing?"
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
... if it also distillated them :-)
Why can't
"Again, safety was always a concern from the start. We did not compensate anyone's health, reputation, or employment during our creation of the Juicer."
Safety? What was their test drink? The Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Just saw the movie!
Soylent juice?!
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A juice machine that mixes juice for you. I could see some applications towards commercial places selling "custom juices." But its pretty damn self defeating idea for personal use. Most people that have juicers are trying to get healthy, whats the point if you sit on your ass and make juice from the couch?
Humanity is too fixated on making physical activity easier and less stressing on the body. Seems like a bad idea. Next thing you know there'll be a WiFi robot that takes dumps for you.
You could have a worm that makes the juicer produce crap.
Mod me down, but I don't really approve mechanized perfection. Somehow making juice with exact proportions everytime frightens me.. There's got to be a little human in it. Juice may be a small thing now, but as we go on trying to make perfect stuff using machines and not with human hands... Kind of reminds me a little like Stepford's Wives.
How very true. Especially when you think that life itself is imperfect and some of the ingredients might accidentally arrive to the mixer in not-so-perfect-condition. It happens rarely but it happens and while a human bartender (or, say, your Significant Other) might detect that immediately when preparing your drink ("sweetheart, when exactly did you prepare this orange juice and are you sure it was this century?"), the machine will just pass it on as usual.
Somehow making juice with exact proportions everytime frightens me.. There's got to be a little human in it.
A little human in your juice? WTF kind of juice are you drinking?
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So, is it like this thing?
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Exactly. I am sure that my my girl friend would agree on that. Especially for sex.
Moreover, it cost less and allowed us to spend more of the allotted budget on making the frame structure more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
I was going to comment on how close they came to this goal, but then based on some of the case mods I've seen, the torn-label Poland Spring bottles and electrical tape contraption does seem to come pretty close to a geek's idea of eye-candy.
Now if only they had spent a little more to line the insides of the plastic bottles with blue neon...
I've got one.
Not only is it wireless, it makes an instant but highly detailed examination of your taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the metabolism, and then sends tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the brain to see what is likely to be well recieved.
However, I'm not quite sure why it does this, because it then invariably delivers a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike orange juice.
Last time I ever buy something from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
It's like deja vu all over again.
I looked at the headline and read "Programmatically controlled Juror".
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Otherwise how does it make a Margerita? :-)
:-D
Re the post on Juicer virii, it could be kind of cool if, say, your date ended up with a triple vodka on the rocks rather than whatever non-fun thing she had requested.
That's if she didn't run out the door after seeing how incredibly geeky you were whilst showing her your collection of smoothies.
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
What's the point of having a wireless link-- eventually you have to go to it to get the drink. What it needs is a radio direction-finder and a throwing arm. Caps for the drinks too.
When the 'Drink' button is pressed it makes an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism, and then sends tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what is likely to be well recieved. However, no-one knows quite why it does this because it then invariably delivers a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy entry on "Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser")
While we are at jokes, dunno whether this will get modded as offtopic...but could not help without posting this joke.
Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day to confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had an urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill said he would be too embarrassed. He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own.
One day a few weeks later, Bill came home. His wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong. "What's wrong, Bill?" she asked. "Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis into the pickle slicer?" "Oh, Bill, you didn't." "Yes, I did." "My God, Bill, what happened?" "I got fired." "No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?" "Oh... she got fired too."
Pretty soon we will see jokes about juice mixer.
hilarious
Wireless communication is controlled with two microcontrollers operating at a frequency of 433 MHz.
The last thing I need to explain to my older neighbors is that my juicer crashed their wireless weather station.
Hey, the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!