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iPhone's Accelerometer Translates Virtual Pour Into Real-World Beer |
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01/03/09
It's possible that this device will mean no one will ever have to pour their own beer again themselves. Instead, one person (or Google) will be solely responsible for pouring all beer. To ensure compliance, the surface of beer bottles will be made poisonous to human hands, with bottles resting safely in devices like this one. Beer drinkers will submit proposals to the Beer Tsar who, if he approves, will remotely activate your drink. For anyone who enjoys beer, this is the holy grail we've been waiting for.
01/03/09
On a more serious note, I'm all for people coming up with things, but that was the worst accelerometer control I have ever seen. Do you have to turn the phone all the way before it even starts to pour? Then it just drops the entire bottle's contents in about a second. The accelerometer is sensitive enough to control things like remote control cars.
01/03/09
Centralizing beer control, even in the name of preventing spilled beer, is a recipe for disaster. It's bad enough that the robots have invaded every nook and cranny of our homes (and possibly English muffins) from the fridges in our kitchens to the beer fridges in our living rooms to the washing machines that Twitter us from afar.
To let the robots control our inebriation is wrongheaded and stupid.
!Viva la drunken resistance!!
01/03/09
And, I agree it's a terrible implementation. He'd be better off using the multitouch rotation gesture to get some fine grained control.
01/03/09
Drinking real beer instead of screwing around with an iPhone app.
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