Stupid Beer News: Superfluous Gadget Edition

Some dude at Duke has built himself a beer launching fridge and is now threatening to manufacture more of them at a price of $1500 per unit.

And someone with way too much time on his hands built a Rube Goldberg–style contraption to pour himself a beer:



Moral: Necessity isn't the mother of invention. Beer is.

Update 3/8: The AP has picked up the beer-launching fridge story.