Booze Archive

  • Brewing TV: When homebrewers attack the web

    Brewing TV: When homebrewers attack the web

    Posted on May 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Brewing TV – Episode 1.1 from Brewing TV on Vimeo. If you’ve ever made your own booze you probably know about Northern Brewer, one of the best online brew supply stores. Well, those folks just started Brewing TV which consists of a dude in a hat talking with another dude in a hat about brewing as [...]

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  • Medea presents the programmable vodka bottle

    Medea presents the programmable vodka bottle

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    What can you add to a bottle of distilled wheat mash besides sweet oblivion? How about a scrolling blue LED display that shows six programmable messages including, potentially, "Let's get crunk!" and "Girls, talk to me! I'm rich and very, very hairy!" The booze costs $40 plus your dignity. Video after the jump.

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  • Awww… a thank you note

    Awww… a thank you note

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Jeff won our iPad contest a few weeks back and he was such a patient and kind gentleman about the whole thing! Best of all, he sent us this kind note written in Sharpie on his brand new iPad! While we encourage this sort of exhuberence, Jeff, remember it’s much easier to download a drawing [...]

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  • World’s first Twitter party? Ron and Fez Super Bowl Twitter party this Sunday (and you can win knissors!)

    World’s first Twitter party? Ron and Fez Super Bowl Twitter party this Sunday (and you can win knissors!)

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    This may be a first: a Twitter Super Bowl party! Sirius XM's Ron and Fez is having some sort of Twitter party celebrating The Big Game. Trivia, prizes, virtual booze, Chris Stanley passed out at a speakeasy in Long Island City—what more could you want? Oh, that's not enough for you? Then how about a pair of knissors signed by East Side Dave McDonald, whom I interviewed last summer?

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  • Games People Play Together: Apple Bingo, Apple Drinking Game

    Games People Play Together: Apple Bingo, Apple Drinking Game

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Ah, Bingo and high technology. They go together like peanut butter and motor oil, except for the few times each year that Apple announces something. In that spirit, please enjoy a little "Tablet Bingo" while you follow the coverage of Apple's mood-altering gadgets. And while you're playing Tablet Bingo, consider the following questions: do you like Apple announcements? Do you like to drink? Do you like to drink while following Apple announcements? Whether you answered yes or no to any of those questions, here's an Apple announcement-specific drinking game. Play along with real booze or your favorite non-alcoholic beverage. Enjoy.

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  • OLED board game pieces promise to take Carcassonne into the far future

    OLED board game pieces promise to take Carcassonne into the far future

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    My buddy Lou tells this story: he was with his girlfriend at the time and he got a call from a couple they knew. They couple invited them over for "boardgames and wine" and Lou said "Sure." Then his girlfriend told him that they were not going over for boardgames and wine because, in that couple's special code, "boardgames and wine" as some sort of weird partner swapping game involving lots of booze. Anyway, a professor at Queen's University in Ontario, Roel Vertegaal, showed off a concept board game that uses OLEDs on each piece, allowing you to play games like Settlers of Catan and Candyland with interactive aspects built right into the pieces. Click through for a video.

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  • iPhone vs DROID multitouch keyboard showdown (video)

    iPhone vs DROID multitouch keyboard showdown (video)

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    I just dashed off this quick video for my Twitter followers to demonstrate that the DROID doesn't have a multitouch soft keyboard, and pretty much instantly realized that I should probably share it with everyone else, since we've been getting a lot of questions about it. Long story short, while Android 2.0 and the DROID's hardware support multitouch, the device itself doesn't do multitouch out-of-the-box, and the soft keyboard suffers mightily for it. Why it's missing is certainly open for debate, but for now just know that no amount of hoping, wishing, or booze is going to make the stock keyboard register more than one press at a time. Don't despair, though -- while I'm not a fan, Chris Ziegler absolutely flies on this same keyboard on his DROID. Videos after the break.

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  • CrunchGear’s going Back-To-School

    CrunchGear’s going Back-To-School

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s that time again, folks. Cars are being loaded, parents are being kissed goodbye, and summer is coming to its unavoidable end. It’s time to go back to college - or for many, to go to college for the first time. Fortunately for you, the CrunchGear team has been there and done that. We’ve dealt with [...]

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  • Sexy robots could love you long time

    Sexy robots could love you long time

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Ian Yeoman of the University of Wellington in New Zealand posits that we could soon be heading to charming resorts on the coast where we have rough sex with robotic pleasure bots. He writes:
    "Robotics will become important, because you're going to have labour shortages in the future,'' he said…Even robot "prostitutes'' that would not pass on diseases such as HIV could make an appearance."

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  • Fake golf club holds 48 ounces of booze

    Fake golf club holds 48 ounces of booze

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    golfDrink-dispensing golf clubs aren't new, per se, but this one just hit SkyMall's new arrivals section so here it is for those of you who haven't seen it before and are looking for a good way to sneak some booze onto your local golf course.

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  • Disposable flask is perfect for staying nimble while on a bender

    Disposable flask is perfect for staying nimble while on a bender

    Posted on June 11, 2009 | No Comments
    flaskSince today seems to be morphing into "Things That Help You Conceal Booze Day" at CrunchGear, here's something interesting: a disposable flask. Cool leopard print, eh?

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