We’ve written extensively about fridges on this website but we’ve yet to discuss a fridge that will send you a beer without having to get off the reclining chair. It takes about 30 sec.-1 min. to get off the chair and into the kitchen but this can be cut down to about 10 sec. with the help of the beer launching fridge. The Beer Launching Fridge is a modified mini-fridge that catapults beer to the desired drinker by use of a keyless remote system. John W. Cornwell is an electric engineer who graduated from Duke University and uploaded the video to the web in 2007 and has won over 10 000$ as part of Metacafe’s Producer Reward program. The device works by going up an elevator mounted on the outside of the device where it’s then inserted into a catapult. The user then has a remote keyless control which can determine and lock the speed, launch angle, and direction just by the press of a button. The device only cost a few hundred dollars to create and can hold up to 10 beers inside the fridge. The catapult can launch a beer up to 13 feet away. Cornwell has demonstrated his device on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ and ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ and has received media attention from web sites like Digg and Slashdot and a segment on the television program ‘The Colbert Report’. The only downside to this device is that the launching of the beer in midair might cause a bit of foam to stir up on the top of the bottle but aside from this issue the beer should taste fine and be nice and cold once it reaches your reclining chair.

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