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Title: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: gryhnd on July 13, 2011, 04:25:19 pm
Might need to be my next project for addition to the theater room:

Mini fridge beer cannon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyLuosZ1rY#)
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: Donkbaca on July 13, 2011, 04:35:18 pm
looks dangerous.  I would rather have a pet monkey that got me beers...
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: gabe on July 13, 2011, 04:56:36 pm
I'd rather have a beer cannon that shot Bud Light AWAY from me.

Otherwise, it's pretty rad.
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 14, 2011, 01:58:42 am
Yeah lets take something that fires metal cans at crotch height and put it in the hands of people who drink.  Oh and better yet, let's make the thing controlled via the net. 

This is the whole Jurassic Park argument all over again:

Malcolm:  "Yeah, but your beer scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

and:

Hammond:  "All major beer-related tech has had delays. When they opened Busch Gardens in 1975, nothing worked!"
Malcolm: "But, John. If the Clydesdales break down, the horses don't throw beer at the tourists."

or maybe:

Malcolm:  "God help us; we're in the hands of engineers."


 

 
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: DaOld Man on July 14, 2011, 07:13:03 am
Pretty neat. But I think it would have been just as simple to build a robot to bring it to you.

Plus they lost me when I saw they have PBR on the menu.
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: Malenko on July 14, 2011, 07:31:29 am
less work to just walk over and get a beer
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: Vigo on July 14, 2011, 09:38:11 am
This is brilliant. Anytime you have a friend that comes over to watch the game and brings over ---smurfy---, cheap beer. You just spend the game launching it back into his face. Then, since the beer was flung across the room, the beer will foam all over when opened. So as an additional benefit, you get to yell at your friend for spilling his cheap beer all over your furniture, and make him pay for a cleaning service to clean out your fine leather couch.

As an added bonus, since it is available via phone app, you can see anyone using your rec room when you are away. So if the wife or kids think that because you are away, they can touch your stereo system, you just pop on your phone and launch a cheap beer can into their eye. That will teach them.

Invention of the year right here, folks!
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: Donkey_Kong on July 14, 2011, 03:51:43 pm
I love it. I think it needs a second or two delay to put your phone down, of course you should be able to catch the beer with one hand.
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: pinballwizard79 on July 15, 2011, 06:53:46 pm
looks dangerous.  I would rather have a pet monkey that got me beers...


I'd rather have a cannon that shot out pet monkeys  ;D
Title: Re: Mini fridge beer cannon
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 16, 2011, 05:31:08 pm
looks dangerous.  I would rather have a pet monkey that got me beers...


I'd rather have a cannon that shot out pet monkeys  ;D

Ahh the monkey cannon...... that takes me back. 

It sounds good on paper, but there are various issues, like the monkeys scratching and biting when you stuff them down the barrel, hair ball removal, ect.
The biggest problem is the "back spray".  Regular bullets release fire from their rears when ejected from a gun, without going into details just imagine what kinds of things spray out of the rear of a pet monkey.