Port-a-Pint Portable Beer Glass Keeps You Always at the Ready

What do you do if you stumble upon a beer keg but don't have a pint glass handy? You suffer, that's what. Which is why you need one of these eminently practical and reasonable devices. [Neatorama]

Video: Palm Pre Dropped in Beer

This man's Pre screens cracked—three times in as many months, once in his shirt pocket. His boss offered to buy him an iPhone if he dunked the Palm. How's your Pre's screen? [PreThinking Via Techmeme]

Bud Light's 'Grooler' Is Actually a Real Product

If you watched any football this weekend, you saw But Light's "Tailgate Approved" parody infomercials. But hey, maybe they weren't parodies; you can buy all that stuff, including the awesome-looking Grooler, online. More »

Beer-in-a-Box Coming to Non-Discriminating Refrigerators This Fall

Get excited, America! Because as of this fall, you'll be able to consume cheap, watered-down swill out of a box. The future of beer consumption is now! More »

This Is Why You Need To Know When To Say When

Hey, I'm all for a night out drinking now and then, but not to the point where I'm crawling into industrial garbage bins to sleep one off. You might not wake up when it's crunch time. More »

Timbuk2's Dolores Cooler Bag Makes For the Best Bike Messenger Gig

Carrying a cooler full of Pabst into a job interview may seem like bad form, but hauling a twelve-pack in a Dolores Cooler shaped like a messenger bag is just the thing to show off your go-getting attitude. More »

Bill Gates Applies for Patent on High Tech Keg

The cerveza mogul himself Señor Bill Gates is listed on a new patent for a "thermally sealed container." And yes, one of its potential functions is to hold beer. More »

Microsoft Un-Cancels Campus Pub, Because They're Totally Cool Dudes

Last week brought a distressing tale of sobriety and job loss from Redmond, but following a concerted internet scorn-fest, Microsoft has come back around to the idea of a corporate campus pub. Mostly. More »

Disco Ball Keg is an Understated Way to Get Your Beer

This is an interesting gimmick, sure, but what genius decided to put a keg in something with a rounded base? How does this stand up straight? Come on. Also, Heineken is gross. [Brainstorm9 via NotCot.org]

The Bar2D2 Celebrates St Patrick's Day

Our favorite bartending robot is at it again. But I watched his St. Patrick's Day clip with bated breath, fearing that the poor, drunken automaton might fall to the floor mid-river dance. More »

Give Me Beer 'N Boobs or Give Me Death

Have you ever had to decide between boobs or beer? With these edible beer-flavored Beer N' Boobs pasties, you'll never have to choose one over the other ever again. Yum. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]

The Viking Horn Beer Bong: Valhalla I Am Coming!

Praise Odin by consuming a Coors Light in seconds via his favorite symbol of power and virility—the horn. This is crying out for a Viking Horn Beer Bong Helmet mod. [Product Page - thanks, Esther!]

Russian Roulette Beer Bong Makes a Game Out of Getting Liver Disease

Russian Roulette Beer Pong allows you to get super wasted real fast. It's like regular Russian Roulette, but instead of ending up dead, you'll end out passed out on the bathroom floor. More »

Hopside Down Glass Will Really Confuse You After a Few Beers

The Hopside Down glass is an optical illusion you drink beer out of: a glass with a bottle inside. The only downside is that it screws you out of a full pint. [ProductPage via NerdApproved]

The Beer Can Celebrates 50 Years of Metallic Aftertaste

Today is the 50th anniversary of the aluminum beer can, released by Coors in 1959. And while I was prepared to make fun of cans for a few hundred words, they're actually sort of interesting. More »

BaR2D2 Is a Real Bar Robot, Doesn't Carry Lightsabers

Remember BaR2-D2, the robot that dispenses beer instead of light sabers which Jabba should have had in his barge? Here is a video of the thing serving drinks in a real party.

iPhone's Accelerometer Translates Virtual Pour Into Real-World Beer

The drinkin' tinkerers over at Instructables created the Serv O'Beer to interpret a "pouring" motion with an iPhone into a real, albeit foamy, beer. What an age we live in! More »

Lego Pole Dancer Actually Dances, Turns On Ogres Like Me

Lego Middle Earth brewery? Check. Lego beer, check. Drunk Lego knights and peasants, check (me included). Glowing Lego ogres, check. Half naked Lego pole dancer that actually moves her booty around? ASFFGGAGADGAFGDH!!!

NanoBrewMaster Home Brew Station Will Be the End of Me

I think I'm in love: The NanoBrewMaster Home Brew Station is an infinitely configurable, 15-gallon beer-making gift from the gods. Newbie brewers like myself just set it up, forget it, and it makes beer.

Japanese Sapporo Brews World's First Space Beer

Sure, the Soviets had the first cosmonaut and the Americans won the moon. But leave it to the Japanese to brew the first space beer in history. Called Space Barley, it uses barley grown in the International Space Station.

v-Pod: Beer and TV, Together At Last

Sure, most of us have enjoyed a cold one while watching TV. But there's nothing worse than running off to the fridge during Sex and the City reruns the game. Now that hassle is over.

Weird Combo of the Day: Bailey's Irish Cream With Free Nivea Skin Cream

I have to share this submission for a booze-related non-gadgety Weird Combo of the Day, which we get more often than not. What are these people thinking? Are the people in charge of product synergy more than occasionally enjoying the products they're synergizing? Perhaps. Or it could be that in Shanghai reader Charles' neighborhood, they're just making loose associations between these two types of creams. No matter; the Nivea probably tastes rich going down too. [Thanks Charles!]

Beer Chilling Exercise Bike Puts You On the Drunk Diet

Don't be fooled. Pedaling around on a bike that chills your beers probably won't result in much weight loss. In fact, you may actually pack on a few as you enjoy the beechwood aged fruits of your labor. The bike has a heat pump attached to the pedals so the more you pedal the cooler the beer set inside the copper coil will get. It is just the incentive the lazy couch potato needs to get up and start moving. Next up, tackling the fresh air of the great outdoors. [PEGE via Treehugger via DVICE]

Factory Robot Becomes Bartender for the Evening, Grovels for Tips

TMCO is a manufacturer of metal products in the bustling metropolis of Lincoln, Nebraska. Not exactly somewhere you'd expect to find experiments involving robotics. But here we have a video of one of its factory robots that's been suited up with a shirt and tie and taught to man a set of beer taps. It even has the audacity to ask for tips afterwards, as if robots have any use for money. A robot's currency is its domination of humans, and this one is pretty bankrupt. [Neatorama]

Pownce Beer Robot Justifies Social Networking

In 10 years, I hope we have the sense of humor to laugh at more than a few of our social network addictions as a grand social mistake, like bell bottoms or Friends. But until then, we have the Pownce-based beer pouring robot. And other than serving a brewsky with a bit too much head, it's tough to find much of anything wrong with this LEGO Mindstorms creation other than, you know, encouraging us to drink alone at our computers. [The Pownce Blog via Tech Digest]

iBeer Creators Sue Coors Over iPint App in Battle of the Dumb Beer Apps

You know those dumb beer apps for the iPhone, the ones that make your phone look like it's a glass of beer that empties as you tip it? They're a total useless gimmick, and because of that, very popular. At first, there was just the iBeer app, created by indie developer Hottrix, who had the gall to charge $3 for such a dumb app. Then, Coors, Wilson Rothman's favorite brewer, came along and made iPint, essentially the exact same thing but with Coors branding. And they gave it away for free. And now, of course, there's a $12.5 million lawsuit. Over a dumb beer app. More »

Beer Phone Essentially Ensures Drunk Dialing

The beer phone isn't the most full-featured phone available, what with its lack of a screen making everything from texting to emailing to web surfing impossible, but it is shaped like a beer bottle. And that's more than you can say for your precious Blackberry or iPhone. Also, it's only $12 because it's actually just a landline phone. So if you've still got a landline for some reason and also like to have normal household objects remind you of your dependence on alcohol, you really can't go wrong. [SourcingMap via ShinyShiny]

Beer-Filled USB Drive Raises Disturbing Questions

Gadgets like this Beer-Filled USB Flash Drive really make me question the basics. More than my first-year university philosophy class did, anyway. Existential angst, the downfall of western civilization, and "customizable floaties" after the jump. More »

The Beerdolier: Drink Like a Commando

A beer belt is nice, but those bottles will probably clang together when you fumble around in a stupor. The Beerdolier takes the weight off of your hips, giving you greater freedom of movement in the process. Plus, when you finally pass out, you don't have to worry about broken glass being thrust into your sensitive nether regions. It also looks great with a sombrero. You can't go wrong here. Available for $15. [Beerdolier via Uncrate via 2dayBlog]

Beer Belt: A Haiku

Six beers on my belt. More »