New Year is the most generous holiday of the year. By the number of days of rest, tons of eaten salads, echelons of spent firecrackers, crackers and fireworks. And, of course, by the number of tanks drunk alcohol. To deny this would be hypocrisy. Until the end of the New Year holidays about a week, and - inspired by music - we decided to offer you a selection of alcohol gadgets.

By the way, in spite of the broadest common statement, alcohol in no way kills brain cells, this is a delusion. First back in 1993, a group of scientists led by Gretha Jensen refuted it during the experiments. They calculated the number of neurons in the control groups of the experimental groups and did not find any effect of alcohol on their number. After that, a lot of research was done on this topic, and none of them found a decrease in the number of neurons as a result of libations. Another thing is that alcohol has a number of other effects on the brain, both negative and positive, but this is another story.

Perfect drink

So, if you like cocktails, then surely you are too lazy to make them at home on your own. Or you are limited to something simple, splashing ingredients "by eye". For the preparation of an ideal drink, adjusted to a gram, you need a firm hand and a wealth of experience, or - the Perfect Drink interactive scales.
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A special application (only iOS is supported) contains hundreds of recipes. It is enough to choose one of them, place a glass on the scales and pour the ingredients in accordance with the prompt on the screen of the connected device. The program will not give you a mistake, the amount of each poured ingredient is displayed dynamically.





Cost: $ 50.

Bartendro

This device (very expensive) is a machine for mixing cocktails based on RaspberryPi. The money for its development and release in 2013 was collected at Kickstarter. On the connected tablet, the user selects the desired cocktail, the system determines which pumps to use and how much to pour. The creators claim that it takes no more than 30 seconds to mix one cocktail. By the way, the program code is available for download on Github .

Cost: $ 2500 for the younger model.

Bar mixvah

Unlike the previous device, Bar Mixvah risks becoming a must have gadget at every cocktail lover’s home bar. The inventor, part-time Chinese engineer , produced some of the parts on a 3D printer, took part of them from other devices and devices, including peristaltic pumps. The brain of the gadget was a cheap Arduino Nano. As a result, the installation cost was only $ 180. Yes, it can mix only 5 bottles, unlike Bartendro, but the cost is lower by 13-20 times. Bar Mixvah code is also available on Github .

Sonic decanter

This gadget will be interesting to wine lovers. It is not yet on sale, but the project has successfully collected the required amount on Kickstarter , and the first shipments will begin in June 2015. This device allows you to radically improve the quality of any wine. To do this, the bottle is placed in a container, and within 20 minutes its contents are processed by ultrasound. As a result, tannins dissolved in liquid and sulfur dioxide (commonly used as a wine preservative) are partially destroyed.



Cost (approximately): $ 250.

Beer machine

This gadget will be of interest to beer lovers - this is a home brewery . To make your own beer, you need a special blend, yeast, cans of carbon dioxide, an anti-foaming disk, and of course water. And after 7-10 days you get 10 liters of excellent beer, your own, already in the refrigerator.



Cost: $ 99.

Picobrew

If the previous device for making beer requires a special mixture, then with PicoBrew you can completely control the composition of the raw materials. This is an automatic installation for home brewing, in which more than 100 recipes are wired. But if you want, you can create your own program and then proudly treat your friends to your beer. You can either share your recipes, or download other people's - the installation connects to the Internet.



Cost: $ 2000.

Sonic foamer

This gadget is addressed to all lovers of froth at beer . If your drink has stood and lost foam, it is enough to put it on the platform and press a button, and foaming will begin immediately. The secret is simple - the gadget starts to emit ultrasound, which provokes the appearance of "magic bubbles".



Cost: $ 30.

Amphibian bank

A fun radio-controlled floating machine , popularly known as the “beer brewer”, equipped with four recesses for standard aluminum cans. To attract the attention of guests to whom you brought drinks, you can use a water cannon. The range of the transmitter is about 6 m. However, it is not clear whether it will be able to float with compartments filled with banks.



Cost: $ 99.

Lapka BAM

And as a logical conclusion, pay attention to the Lapka BAM portable breathalyzer. It allows you to independently control your state before you get behind the wheel, for example. On sale there are many compact breathalyzers, but Lapka stands out from the crowd. It connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth and is controlled solely by ... breathing. The program on the smartphone does not just throw out some faceless numbers, it gives you friendly advice depending on the degree of intoxication. Moreover, all parting words and sentences contain a fair amount of humor and irony. So the statement “Yes, I am sober as a glass!” You can proudly confirm with the help of instrument analysis, blowing into a device the size of a little more than a wine cork. Another interesting feature of the program is the logging of your movements, so that in the morning you will be able to recover your route. You look, it will help you to remember whether the last night was really unforgettable.

Cost: $ 99.

With the coming of you, and do not get carried away by the impetuous!