360i creates a beer keg that twitters
July 24, 2009
The good folks at the digital agency 360i came up with a clever hack to make a beer tap that twitters. The tap is connected to an electronic Keg-Meter, which determines flow, and sends tweets whenever a beer is drawn. Awesome proof of concept, and an idea that lends itself to considerable punning:
http://blog.360i.com/360i-news/introducing-tweetingbar
This is the sort of cleverness that we need to see more of – embedding logic, sensors, and transmitters into different objects to see how this transforms our relationship with them.
And continuing the beer + technology overlap, the Serv O’Beer, using the iPhone’s accelerometer:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/serv-obeer-pours-when-iphone-accelerometer-tells-it-to/