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The Beer Tossing Fridge
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."
i'm used to all the "but this was on digg!!!!1!1! /. is teh SuX0r!1one"
but damn..... slashdot got scooped on a robot story by Deadspin. a sports website. over a week ago. AND had to wait until CNN picked it up.
y'all are slippin, i tells ya.
The IRS is the one organization that you don't want to fuck with. Remember, these are the guys who took down Al Capone.
fellow duke student Gerald Henderson threw a vicious elbow at the device during a routine beer launch.
Of course it isn't. It's a beer-flavored, alcohol delivery vehicle that is intended to intoxicate the brain. As it has a relatively low alcohol content, it must be consumed quickly and in large quantities. Devices such as this wacked-out fridge and of course, the venerable beer bong specifically were designed to assist in the pursuit of drunkenness by these means.
Real beer, as the more sophisticated and/or effete among us have noted, is not suitable for this purpose. And while I could never be accused of harboring sympathy for the denizens and survivors of Duke University and their supremely lame men's basketball team, I don't think the inventor of this marvelous contraption ever intended for it to fire off killer glass bombs of Old Speckled Hen. Mmm... speckle...