booze

Toys

Portable Tap Dispenser: The Partier’s Camelback

9:00AM Dan Nosowitz | We’re big beer fans here at Giz and watch with excitement any new technological developments in the beer world. So we’re pleased to show you the Portable Tap Dispenser, a backpack with a dispensing tap for your brew of choice. More »
Random Stuff

Beer-in-a-Box Coming To Non-Discriminating Refrigerators This Fall

6:40AM Adam Frucci | Get excited, America! Because as of this fall, you’ll be able to consume cheap, watered-down swill out of a box. The future of beer consumption is now! More »
Software

Top Three IPhone Apps: Weed, Booze, And Partial Nudity

8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Apple’s Puritanical app approval policy doesn’t let in any really inappropriate apps, but it’s clear that the people want to indulge their vices with their iPhones: The current top three most popular apps are focused on sex, drugs, and alcohol. More »
Gadgets

Alcohol Shot Gun Sprays Slippery Nipples In Your Mouth

2:14PM Nick Broughall | God knows how the people at Latestbuy managed to convince the clenchers in Canberra that selling a gun which shoots shots of alcohol was a good idea. But they must have, because they’re selling it now. More »
Design

Liquor Master Says You Take Sculpture, Liquor Seriously

12:30PM Wilson Rothman | It takes a connoisseur to pay a fortune for a sculpture, but it takes a maniacal boozehound with major ducats to burn to buy one to stash his (or her) liquor. More »
Business

Microsoft Teetotalers Hate Fun, Cancel Nearly-Completed Pub

1:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Unlike my alma mater, Microsoft has decided that booze and good times have no place on their campus. They’ve abruptly cancelled the almost-finished construction of a new pub, claiming it would not be “appropriate.” More »
Gadgets

Booze Shot Gun Will Make Your Party Drunken and Awkward Really Fast

8:20AM Adam Frucci | Only real party animals take shots via an alcohol gun. Because regular shot glasses are for losers, bro. More »
Science

Pass Wine Through an Electric Field for Delicious, Rapid Aging

3:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | If you’re the kind of destitute scientist who drinks Franzia but has a couple of high-powered titanium electrodes lying around, you’re in luck, because a short blast of electricity can vastly improve your swill. More »
Gadgets

Chugulug Drinks Factory: If Rube Goldberg Were an Underage Girl You Wanted to Get Drunk

1:15AM Mark Wilson | Any old idiot can use a shaker to mix his drink of choice, but it takes a supreme idiot to assemble and operate the Chugulug Drinks Factory. A series of interchangeable tubes connect a variety of specialised compartments (such as the Ice Chamber and Vortex Funnel) to mix and chill your drink through a 10-or-so step process that looks utterly impossible to clean. Then again, at just $US38, it wouldn’t make the worst self-deprecating centerpiece for your next soiree. [BoyStuff via Nerd Approved] More »
Software

Last Call iPhone App Wants You To Get Drunk Responsibly

9:18AM Gizmodo US Edition | Similar to other drunk-calculating iPhone apps, Last Call determines how smashed you are by your weight and how many drinks you’ve knocked back. However, unlike all those other apps, it’s free, it also calculates your drunkenness by the specific type of alcoholic beverage you’ve consumed, and it gives you options on what to do next now that you’re super drunk. If you’ve had a few too many drinks to drive, you can press a button on the app that’ll call a taxi for you. And if you’ve disregarded the taxi button, there’s another button that’ll help you to find a local lawyer for when you get that DUI, tsk tsk. [Wired] More »