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Hack: Get the Perfect Pour of Beer with Your iPhone

010809_tf_servbeer1.jpgIn honor of my Alma Mater's Florida Gators playing in the BCS national championship game tonight, I went searching for ideas on how technology can help you enjoy a great sports game. There's the obvious tech solutions like giant HDTVs and killer sound systems, but I found something a little more in line with my favorite part of game days: tailgating. This technical hack uses the built-in accelerometer in your iPhone to activate a pouring gizmo (video under the jump). We're not sure it makes pouring a beer any more easy or accurate, but it sure makes for a fun and geeky afternoon of getting drunk. (Except for Tim Tebow. When Tim Tebow drinks beer, he doesn't get drunk. The beer gets Tim Tebow-ed.)

 
 

So geeky it goes over my head (but I love it when boys talk nerdy to me), Instructables user polymythic constructed an iPhone-controlled beer-pourer "using Construx as the mechanical platform, a servo driving the action, and ioBridge controlling the system."

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Athletes and nerd power go great together. For every football player on the screen there are hundreds of thousand of nerds that make the event more enjoyable.

Go Gators!

posted by spoon on January 8th 2009 at 4:13pm
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