'Beer mat knows when it is refill time'

Lebowski · Post by **Lebowski** » Saturday Oct 01, 2005 5:20 pm

From http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/09/30/spar ... n=cnn_tech

Two German students have created a device that will stop beer lovers having to get out of their seats for a refill.

The "smart" beer mat, created by Matthias Hahnen and Robert Doerr from Saarland University in Saarbruecken, southwest Germany, can sense when a glass is nearly empty, sending an alert to a central computer behind the bar so waiters know there are thirsty customers.

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Saturday Oct 01, 2005 10:27 pm

Like the empty fricken glass isn't a dead giveaway. Some people just don't have powers of obsevation

Dogger

triumph · Post by **triumph** » Saturday Oct 01, 2005 10:43 pm

I agree with Dogger. Do we need cogniscenti like that? Halfwits...

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Sunday Oct 02, 2005 6:09 am

On the good side it might encourage more people to actually use coasters for thier intended purpose.

Also you could rig it up so that it gave you your drinking statistics - how many you had, when you started when you finished, how long each beer took etc. Whether that information is good bad or useless I don't know.

Cheers,
Greg

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Sunday Oct 02, 2005 8:05 am

gregb wrote:
Also you could rig it up so that it gave you your drinking statistics - how many you had, when you started when you finished, how long each beer took etc. Whether that information is good bad or useless I don't know.

Cheers,
Greg

What..

That information is bad, very bad.

Er indoors, armed with those statistics.

No thank you, ta very much.

tommo