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I’m not sure how much progress has been made in the measuring cup industry since its inception, but something tells me the old cups are on their way out. These Measuring Pours attach right on to any bottle and measure out a precise amount of liquid to pour.

The liquid is deposited into a reservoir which only holds as much as is needed. The Measuring Pours only allow the proper measurement to be poured, effectively eliminating a tedious task from your cooking.

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Drink a shitload of bottled water or soda? Great. Stop throwing those empty bottles into the trash and put them to better use. Using Richard Bennett’s instructions, you’ll be able to build a greenhouse with those empty bottles and a few things from The Home Depot. Hey, if you can think of another way to use empty soda bottles, I’m all ears.

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Why keep all that extra Vitamin Water in the garage? Show your friends that you’re recession-proof! This Octopus bottle holder can keep several bottles suspended in mid-air as you skip around the kitchen with the fridge door open and the TV on full volume. Fantastic for a small NYC bathroom or just a creative gift to get your wife at the last minute. $37 and an octopi fetish.

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Not every belt is built for hard liquor. Some are built for hops lovers others for gay pirates, but man oh man, I could’ve used this in high school. As for college, I slept next to a mini-fridge, no $18 beer belt needed. This belt reminds me of my senior year in high school. The chess team had just won their final match and needless to say I was ecstatic. Some of the “in crowd” were throwing a “school’s out for the summer” party, complete with Alice Cooper music and all. Yet, when I showed up with a friend of mine, we were not welcome. This made my blood boil.

When my blood boils, I do stupid shit. The kind of crap you go to jail for. While all the party goers were in the basement, dicking around with their inflatable Beer Pong Table, my friend and I raided the fridge.  For one reason or another, no one at this party was anywhere near the beer-filled fridge. Bad move. Unfortunately, like every other person,  I only have two hands. If only I had had this beer belt, I would’ve been able to grab more than the six beers I shoved in my cargo pockets and the two beers in each of my hands. Contrary to popular belief, another six beers will make a difference.

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Art is pretty cool and all, but beer is even better. That’s why it’s so great that London’s Royal College of Art has teamed up with German brewery Beck’s to bring the work of four up and coming British artists to a cold one near you. As part of a program called “Beck’s Canvas,” 27 million bottles of Beck’s will be produced featuring the work of Rita Ikonen, Tom Price, Charlotte Bracegirdle and Simon Cunningham. Other Royal College of Art students and alumni are expected to participate in future editions of the project. Beck’s Canvas makes a lot of sense, because when you get completely smashed and start seeing double you can enjoy all the art twice for one price.

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Dong Han Kim and his team at the Seoul National University of Technology in South Korea have designed a robot that can jump up stairs using two empty plastic soda bottles. In spite of all the amazing crap robots can do, they often have trouble navigating steps. Kim’s ScoutRobot solves this problem with an aluminum cylinder that blasts compressed air from two 20 oz. plastic soda bottles. There have been lots of awesome things made out of empty bottles, but this air-powered robot is definitely the best of the bunch. ScoutRobot also has sensors that spot upcoming obstacles and estimate how much height is needed to jump them. Sadly for me and all of my fellow honkies, modern science still hasn’t come up with a solution to get us hops. Read on for a video of the bottle-bot getting airborne.

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I think we can all agree that drinking cold beer is the best activity ever created. But after a long day at the beach, drinking cold brews under a hot sun, we’re left with tons of empty bottles. Now because we’re vacationing in a shitty state (we’re cheap), we can’t recycle these bottles for money. So what can we do with them? Smash ‘em.

Afasia 1, aka The Beer Blaster, from Arcangelo Sassolino is a pneumatic canon that uses nitrogen to shoot empty beer bottles at a wall. The entire enclosure has a cage around it so spectators can watch the smashing. Every few minutes, a shot is fired from the canon and another bottle is smashed. So the next time you start drinking, make sure you start smashing if you want to have any sort of fun.

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I used to spend hours tapping away at the original Game Boy, hoping to improve my Tetris score. While my score sort of topped out and some point, the Tetris soundtrack will always be stuck in my head.

The funny thing is, that there was a setting in the original game which allowed you to choose from an assortment of songs. The default Tetris song was always my favorite. A fine mix of MIDI and Arabian sounds.This video shows a trio of Tetris fans performing the default theme song using bottles. I always knew blowing a certain way on bottles creates a tone but I never imagined composing a full blown cover song with the damn things.

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Imagine a picturesque wild west town. It’s the late 1890s and the bars are hot, stale and empty. You and 5 of your amigos stroll in and order a round of whiskey shots, stat. How could you put the bartender under that kind of stress? The whiskey is clearly on the other side of the bar, next to the laser scissors. But no worry, compadre. Our bartender has the Whiskey Holster.

Equipped with pouches for 6 tall shot glasses and two 750ml bottles, no bartender has an excuse for not being able to turn the party up to 11. I wonder if those Lava Lamp Shot Glasses will fit?

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