When we heard about the LazyDrinker cocktail dispensing device, we thought we'd died and gone to heaven. What could be better than a gadget that simultaneously satisfies our geekiest urges and quenches our thirst for delicious alcoholic beverages? So, we hastily emailed the company and asked them to send us one. A couple weeks later (they custom build each unit), we received our fully assembled machine-an Igloo cooler retrofitted with pressurized valves, hoses, a motherboard and data cables, and a CO2 tank.
See how we set it up and put it to good use in the following slideshow.
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