The Barhand: robotic beer dispenser
posted May 30th 2005 9:23AM
Mr. Cindy Crawford watch out 'cause your flesh mob of models/actresses
bartenders/waitresses' days are numbered. Introducing the Barhand, a beer-bottle vending machine which serves the tasty
beverage via a robotic hand. Set for launch over the
fortnight in Glasgow (The Garage) and then London (bar.05), the Barhand was designed to cut those beer queues and
incidentally, slash binge-drinking — 'cause according to Glaswegian inventor Michael Bowes, those long queues make you
drink more (oh yeah, and how 'bout those early English closing times, eh?). No word on how they prevent sales to
drunken yobs or subdue overly amorous Bar Bots — we can
only hope that arm packs a mean whoop-ass function. Sorry no pictures available so…picture of bar and hand, barhand,
get it? …yeah.
you guys used a picture of prison bars for a robo hand? - lame
That bar tap of wit just flows and flows at Engadget HQ.
I think you might find that Glasgow is not subject to English closing times... probably because it's not in England! Scottish closing times aren't much better, mind you.
I already have a robotic beer dispenser. It's in my garage. The Vending Menace, named for the character in The Tick (live action tv series), is a retrofitted vending machine that uses flowmeters and solenoid valves hooked up to a custom microcontroller-based computer to dispense a metered amount of beer based on a user's selection. Selections are made the same way any other beverage is chosen from a vending machine. Not to be outdone, the original vending action of the machine is still retained in six of the original twelve bins.
Photos here:
http://vendingmenace.blurbco.com/
iPodTodd:
While I may agree with you on harsher sentences for drunk driving, I think you are a stupid fool for blaming alcohol for alchool abuse. It's idiocy like you demonstrate which causes people to drive drunk in the first place. A discussion regarding the decisions of people to drink or not has no place in this thread --- you probably just make the comments in order to link people to your crappy iPod stickers, which, I might add, you'd have to be drunk to want to purchase.
On second thought, you are also stupid for selling unlicensed merchandise. You must be very proud of your ability to scan things and make stickers out of them. OTOH, maybe that is why your idiotic comments here on engadget get deleted all the time.
uk licencing laws have recently been relaxed, and 24 hour licences are available, but extremly costly. plus most people that cause trouble want to get drunk anyway so longer opening times seems silly. in countries where licensing laws have always been relaxed, people are brought up with a diferent viewpoint on alchohol and are less likley to get wasted on a regular basis. i think.