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Kegbot: The Future of Robotic Drink Service, Now
An anonymous reader writes "Frat houses all over the world could soon be linked up in massive online drinking games, thanks to Kegbot, a standard kegerator that uses an RFID alternative to track how much the drinkers have imbibed and feeds that data over an embedded ethernet into an online database.
One of Kegbot's main creators, Mike Wakerly, says the technology can actually promote more responsible drinking because it allows people to be cut off from using the tap after the system detects that they've had more than their alloted fluid ounces." Reader bloglogic points to "more pics and instructions on building your own Kegbot at the Make Magazine web site."
a robot that cuts me off? we have to do everything we can to stop this insidious technology before its too late!
I for one welcome our new robotic drink-serving overlords.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 28/0613233&threshold=1&tid=216&tid=99
Then I'm all for it.
I don't get it.
because it allows people to be cut off from using the tap
This is an Evil machine that needs to be killed and never spoken of again.
RFID (or RFID alternative) is BAD. Talk about evil abuses of technology.
Using it to take away my privacy is one thing, but use it to take away my beer?
Now you've gone too far!
And they say we're paranoid...
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
I was under the impression that it featured a tower of ratings from 'Stone cold sober' to 'Pissed as a fart' and that when you blew into the mouthpiece, your score bar would rise slowly, accompanied by a slide-whistle sound effect, and upon hitting the top score a bell would ring out and you'd win a prize.
The irony is, I'm drunk right now.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?