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Video: DARwIn-OP Wants Tecate, Not Bud Light

Robot shows signs of intelligence
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 07.29.2011 at 10:04 am 4 Comments

Among beer-grabbing robots, DARwIn-OP is apparently pretty particular. In repeated tests, it shuns Bud Light in favor of Tecate.

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Gadgets

An Automatic Beer Pourer

This contraption's for you
By Instructables.com Posted 03.24.2009 at 10:02 am 3 Comments

Software engineer Steve Struebing put a lot of work into a device that helps him to be lazy. Using a Construx toy set and a servo motor, he built a frame to hold a bottle of his favorite beer. He then created a Web application for his iPhone to communicate with a control module that pivots the frame. As he tilts the iPhone, the frame tilts accordingly, for a perfect pour every time. More details at instructables.com.

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Gadgets

An Automatic Beer Pourer

This contraption's for you
By Instructables.com Posted 03.24.2009 at 10:02 am Comments

Software engineer Steve Struebing put a lot of work into a device that helps him to be lazy. Using a Construx toy set and a servo motor, he built a frame to hold a bottle of his favorite beer. He then created a Web application for his iPhone to communicate with a control module that pivots the frame. As he tilts the iPhone, the frame tilts accordingly, for a perfect pour every time. More details at instructables.com.

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Science

It's Oktober: I'll Drink To That!

Brewing BioBeer for better health
By Rachel Durfee Posted 10.21.2008 at 4:13 pm 2 Comments

A group of college students at Rice University are taking their favorite pastime and turning it into a research project. Their passion? Beer. Their project? Inventing a brew that contains resveratrol, a chemical present in wine that lowers the risk of heart disease and cancer. The team, made up of eight graduate and undergraduate students and advised by six faculty members, is entering its invention in the world’s largest synthetic biology competition: International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), taking place November 8th and 9th in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Ask A Booth Babe

By popsci Posted 01.10.2007 at 5:12 am 0 Comments

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How well do the hired guns and gun-ettes at CES know their spiels? Are the Vonage girls in the Fanta-colored minidresses just pretty faces, or are they shrewd and highly trained sales people? We sought to find the answers to these and other burning questions today as we roamed the halls of CES, checking out gadgets both lame and cool (standouts in the latter category included Samsung’s Bluetooth TV and Ion’s iProjector—both fully pimped in the video below). Oh yeah: and we also good-naturedly heckled the hawkers. 

Seriously, we didn’t have much else to do. MacWorld’s earth-shattering iPhone announcement stole a lot of Vegas’s thunder today, so much so that the CNN guys wandered around bored during a two-hour production break in which CES reporters’ services (including my own) were no longer needed due to a glut of stories rolling in from San Fran. In fact, maybe it’s just me, but there seemed to be a generalized feeling of ennui at the show, as if all the surprises had dried up till tomorrow and we might as well do eff-all in the meantime. Which could explain how Jonathan and I ended up testing horse-riding ab machines and drinking beers outside the show on a grassy knoll. Well, on second thought, we probably would have done that stuff anyway. Watch the silliness in the video below. —Megan Miller


   

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