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A lot of people out there really enjoy brewing their own beer. There are plenty of kits out there that make it easy to make your own brew and get drunk without having to trek down to the convenience store. If your preferred drink is wine, the process of making your own drink is a bit more challenging.

A company has turned up with a device they call The Miracle Machine that promises to turn your water into wine at home. This device isn’t performing a real miracle; rather it is using technology and some raw ingredients to speed up the creation of wine. In addition to water, you’ll need grape concentrate, yeast, and a sachet of other ingredients – all of which its maker is happy to sell you for about $10 a month.

The hardware has an array of sensors along with heaters, pumps, and transducers inside a large carafe device. You put in the water and other raw ingredients to make your preferred type of wine. Inside the device is an Arduino controller which syncs with a mobile app to tell you all you need to know about making the wine and keeping an eye on your wine as it ferments.

Its makers say that you can buy kits to make a full bottle of wine with about $2 worth of ingredients, though it’ll take a while for the $499 Miracle Machine to pay for itself. The Miracle Machine will go on sale via a Kickstarter project. If you’re interested in learning when it’s available for pre-order, you can sign up here.

Some people don’t mind drinking a beer at room temperature, but I think most of us prefer it to be chilled. It takes at-least 10 to 15 minutes in the refrigerator before you can get it chilled. Who has the time for that when there’s drinking to be done? Well, now you can chill your beer in under a minute.

The answer? The Spin Chill. This little first world problem solver spins an individual beer can inside your ice chest. It’s basically a drill bit with cap on the top. That cap holds your beer. You supply the spin.

But what if you’re too lazy to get the drill out of the garage? Go for the Beerouette – a complete mini drill that you attach your beer to and spin. If you want to get in on this, head on over to Kickstarter by October 17th. The bit by itself is going for $12, and comes in versions for either bottles or cans, while the Beerouette sells for $35, and can chill either bottles or cans.

[via Damn Geeky]

A night out at the local watering hole can be a pain sometimes, having to elbow your way through crowds and struggle to catch the bartender’s eye, all for a tasty beverage. If only we could leave all the hard work to a machine. Fortunately, Monsieur, the “robotic bartender” that we first met at TechCrunch Distrupt a few weeks ago, is back to deliver a Jetsonian experience to those who thirst for more than tech. It’s certainly not the first of its kind, but the delivery method employed here is of a subtler sort, downplaying the anthropomorphic angle and hiding away the mechanism inside a streamlined casing. The home-bound version is significantly more compact (and less expensive) than the enterprise edition seen above, and it should be making its way to consumers soon. Grab a glass and join us after the break to see what’s in store.%Gallery-slideshow90894%

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If you have an addiction to Grumpy Cat and/or coffee, you’ll want to drink this Grumpy Cat Grumppuchino. But you don’t have to like it. Oh no. You are just drinking it to drink it. There is no way you are enjoying yourself. Phaw!

On the other hand, maybe Grumpy Cat coffee can actually make you happy. He won’t care, though. He just wants you to stay out of his way and stfu. Fans of the famous cat will want to try this drink and see what they think either way.

Grumpy Cat Grumppuccino will apparently come in three different flavors. Probably Grumpy, Grumpier and Grumpiest.

[via Laughing Squid via Incredible Things]

3D printing tech can be quite amazing, but it’s usually done by melting plastic – or maybe sugar. But this is the first time I’ve heard of 3D printing using bees – or as it’s being called “3-B” printing.

As part of a promotion for its new honey-infused Highlander Honey, Dewars has been putting 80,000 of its highlander honey bees to work, building 3D sculptures.

By having the bees work within custom-shaped forms, they have already made a giant honeycomb shaped like a scotch bottle, and are currently buzzing away on another sculpture – a man’s bust. Or in this case, Dewars’ “Drinking Man.”

Head on over to Dewar’s Facebook page to see the 3-B printing experiment in action, and enter for a chance to win the Drinking Man honeycomb sculpture for yourself.

P.S. That Highlander Honey is pretty tasty stuff too.