After many, many years of consultation with the best Gay bartenders in Chicago, I have decided we need to modernize the whole New Years Eve tradition. Whether it's Eric from The Edge on the South Side, to Rob at Touché' on the North Side, they all agree on one thing enough with the crappy hats and noise makers! 2005 will be the year we finally combine my favorite things: drinking, robots and technology.

By the end of 2007, 4.1 million robots will be working in homes and businesses, says the report by the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics. So let's take a look at this new technology and see how we can apply it to create a "new" New Years Eve.

 

 

First off there is RoboBar, a unique new bartending robot that serves various adult beverages, highlighting potential application in the growing service industry sector. The robot is capable of vending draft beer, mixed drinks, and soft drinks (soda and juices). After a valid card swipe, the customer uses a touch screen to choose a beverage. The robot selects a cup, then fills it with the appropriate beverage(s) and ice, if desired. The robot then passes the drink to the customer via an automatic turntable located at the side of the unit. "RoboBar doesn't mind late hours or long shifts, and doesn't complain about the lack of tips. RoboBar also will never show up late, drink on the job, dip into the till, or be rude to customers," says Carl Traynor, Senior Director of Marketing. "Smoke doesn't bother the robot, and it never has a bad attitude." An optional video screen is available to provide a selectable "personality" for your RoboBar. (In case you don't have onehint, hint.)

 

Robots As robots patiently seek coadunation with their human counterparts, it only makes perfect sense that we begin designing them to mimic the finer parts of our own behavior. Like alcoholism and panhandling, for instance. Creepily misanthropic, the Bar Bot's primary objective is beer consumption, which it accomplishes by begging bar patrons for money.When it's collected enough cash for a brew, it orders one up from the bar (someone still has to hand it to the Bar Bot, though) which it proceeds to drink; only then will the Bar Bot have anything to do with you, outside of asking for money or booze. Hmmm, kind of sounds like going out in Boystown on "Dollar Beer Night", if you get my drift

 

AWOL Vaporizer

Thousands of years ago, when man took that first drink, his lungs, nasal passage and bronchial tubes had alcohol passing through them.
That's why, if your husband is like mine, you've probably heard: "You smell like you've been drinking again" or worst yet, "Please exhale in this breathalyzer."

One of the ways our body gets rid of the alcohol we drink is through the lungs, in our breath. AWOL simply turns that procedure around and lets the alcohol enter the body through the lungs thus eliminating the dreaded hangover.
Drinks including vodka and whiskey can be inhaled into the mouth through a tube using a new device known as an AWOL Vaporizer.
The AWOL Vaporizer has a built-in safety device, because it takes about 20 minutes to inhale one vaporized shot of alcohol (about 1/2 actual shot size).

It is designed to allow people to enjoy the effects of alcohol mixed with oxygen. It promotes a sense of well being and a mild euphoria, and is a fun new legal way to drink alcohol.
The new method is known as AWOL, an acronym for "Alcohol With Out Liquid", and is a hit on the global club scene due to the euphoric "high" created when alcohol is vaporized, mixed with oxygen and inhaled.
The user chooses which drink will be used and the alcoholic spirit is loaded into a diffuser capsule in the machine. The oxygen bubbles are then passed through the capsule, absorbing the alcohol, before being inhaled through a tube. The resultant cloudy alcohol vapor is then inhaled from the end of the tube via a device that converts liquid to vapor. Sounds like more fun than a crappy hat and noisemaker, doesn't it?
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