Gizmodo
ThingM's WineM is one part intelligent wine rack, one part light show. This concept, currently on display at NextFest, works by taking bottles of wine tagged with RFID stickers and placing them onto the rack. Now if you're having Lamb Shank for dinner and want a decent Shiraz, just input into the computer that you want a Shiraz over $50, then WineM automatically lights up each bottle of wine that fits the description.
What's too bad is that there isn't an official wine database like CD's have with CDDB. That way you could tag it with RFID and type in the brand, year and variety to get even more information. Currently you have to enter in all of the information by hand. Hopefully someone will bring the wine database to fruition, but in the mean check out the WineM in light show mode, it's almost more impressive than the RFID locating.
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as long as those lights aren't always on, should be cool, but uh, anyone who gives a damn about wine and pairing already knows what goes with what (and would have to in order to input the info in the first place) and probably knows their collection inside and out.
theres no database because wines (the good ones, anyways) dont have UPC's. this thing only holds 40 bottles - it's really not that difficult to keep 40 bottles organized. furthermore, how many times do we have to say it? Wine + Light =
dammit, wine + light = < wine
"< wine
< what
hey what the hell... if you type < and then something, then go back and put a space, it posts automatically!
wtf not doing it now..
lol@nutbastard: that may be my favorite series of posts ever.
lmao. that was entertaining!
Nutbastard is now the commenter of the month.
But this wine rack?
The kind of dork who would buy this for their wine would already have their wine obsessively organized and reorganized like Rob Fleming organizing and reorganizing his record collection. Not useful.
It will sell well in wine shops, though, for showing off collections and how "high tech" and yet still "down to earth" they are.
Screw the wines, I don't even like wine to begin with. Now, if it chases like it does on the video, either make it a library or make it thinner and I'll buy one as a decoration piece.
That way people can stand admiring my awesome light show while they drink my cheap ass chardonnay.
Well, it IS useful for those rich with money but not so much culture and want to fit in the upper class by spending much money on an impressive wine collection that the owner himself doesn't know much about.
If you have this many wines and need an impressive rack to hold them (does this even refrigerate whites?) you probably know what goes with your food.
Do they make one that holds boxes of wine? How about a partnership with Boone's Farm?
@nutbastard:
remind me not to let you be my next Realtor
On another note, anything wine-related with a barcode/RFID makes me somewhat reluctant, especially if it's contained within a box
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