More beer?

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

Thought you guys would like this ....
Smart Glass Knows When It Needs Another Beer
Thu Apr 4, 7:48 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Drink up that beer -- another will soon be whisked to
the
table thanks to a hi-tech pint glass that tells bar staff when it needs
refilling.
Developed by a Japanese electronics company, the intelligent glass is
fitted
with a radio-frequency coil in its base and emits a signal to a receiver
set
in the table when it's empty, New Scientist magazine reported Thursday.
The iGlassware system works by coating each glass with a clear, conducting
material, enabling it to measure exactly how much liquid has been sipped or
guzzled.
When empty, the glass sends an electronic cry for more beer from the table
to waiters equipped with hand-held computers on frequencies similar to
those
used by mobile phones.
A team from the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories working in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has made the first prototypes, but may find it
hard to sell the idea to Britons.
"It sounds like a fun idea, but I don't think it would work in our pubs,"
said a spokesman for J.D. Wetherspoon, which runs over 500 pubs in Britain.
"The tradition in Britain is to get up and go to the bar for a round of
drinks, not to have a waiter bring beers to the table, no matter how
quickly," he said.
When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you get.

[AggieDave 6]

(sorry to tell you, but we've been talking about this one...its in the every dz needs this thread.)
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely."

[underdog 0]

that's why i sit at the bar, were a good bartender will bring another when there is about a quarter of an inch left in my bottle.