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Auto-keg
From the same kind of technology that brought us Canadarm | |
If you've ever been at a party and had a hotdog in one hand and an empty beer cup in the other hand, then you'll know what I am talking about. It is quite the nuissance to put the hotdog down, especially when it's windy outside. So, I propose a keg that has a mechanical arm, much like Canadarm, and
an optical senser that recognizes red or blue cylinders that can locate your cup, aim, and then squeeze the nozzle all by itself. Problem solved!
Also would work with putting condiments on your hotdog if you happened to go through the line backwards by accident, but it would need a much more intelligent optical sensor to find a tan or brown hotdog on a potato colored bun on a white paper plate as opposed to just finding a red or blue cylinder amidst randomly changing background colors.
Canadarm
http://www.answers....darm?cat=technology
The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS) [quantum_flux, Feb 27 2008]
Future- Tourism Land
http://usera.imagec...tureTourismLand.jpg
Featuring the "autokeg" [quantum_flux, Feb 27 2008]
Flagellum Evolution
http://video.google...pe=search&plindex=0
AI will have to occur in a like manner. Keg pumping is just an initial use. [quantum_flux, Feb 27 2008]
You need...
http://nexus404.com...beer-serving-robot/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 01 2008]
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"It is quite the nuissance to put the hotdog down, especially when it's windy outside."
WTF? |
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One of your guests will wear a shirt with red and blue rectangles in the pattern. At best they will be sprayed with beer, at worst the arm will punch the nozzle 2 inches into their chest trying to center over the 'cup'. |
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At absolute worst, they will be pierced and destroyed by hotdogs flung by tornado force winds. |
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Good god, Quantum! Was this some kind
of themed fancy dress party or something?
Otherwise, why would one be consuming
beer out of a cup? And why would it be
empty? What *do* you teach your staff?
And why would you be outside? And what
on earth is a 'paper plate'? |
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This is all very worrying and bewildering. |
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I teach them the important things in life. You've never partied on the beach with barbeque hotdogs and a keg of beer? Now I think this is somewhat worrying too. |
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Yes, I have, but it seems to have been
rather better organised. I'm not sure if the
beer comes out of a keg - someone else
takes care of that. Most of the cooking
tends to be done on board and then
brought ashore, but cook does sometimes
barbecue a pig or something else on the
beach. |
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Are we talking about a soda tap on a beer keg? Why put lipstick on a pig with the whole optical thing? |
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AI is something that is going to have to evolve in steps, much like the flagella or anything else that is a living organism. If the mechano-keg-arm serves a purpose, then it is likely to survive and maybe find a different purpose with even higher functioning some time later .... eventually we will have i-freaken-robot, but it's just going to have to come in steps! |
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How about, er, a foot pedal to dispense beer instead? |
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Though I think I like your solution better. |
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