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Think of how much you would save not having to tip the snotty waitress or deaf bartender!

I know where I'm headed next time I'm in ATL!!

The greatest invention ever was the Flowbee. Everyone knows that!

digg effect already?

Alcoholic's paradise

Now if only somebody could rig up a catheter system so we can pee, we won't have to get up at all.

http://www.bugsandcranks.com.nyud.net:8080/the-clu ...

but slow

Even greater than Steorn's Orbo?

I think the Table Tapper is equally cool and it has been around for a long time:
http://symbii.com/stories.php?sid=19&tid=21

I can't see the webpage, but this sounds awesome.

Be nice if it said WHICH "sports bar"

25 diggs, 4 comments, and digg effect on page 1. My head hurts

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ones. From a beer drinkers perspective, this is an amazing concept.

why would you use a glass when you could just tilt your head back and enjoy the heavenly gift as is was intended?

The place is called Stats, it's pretty upscale for a sports bar. I have only been there once but it is a cool place and the food is great. The menu said it's only the 2nd place in the world to have beer taps at the table. If you ever go to a Falcons/Thrashers/Hawks game, definitely stop by this place because it is within walking distance of both stadiums. Also, the only downside, you have to reserve a beer table before you go, one time my friends did not and they wouldn't give them a beer table even though there were plenty open.

I slow-loading awful website design that crashes right when it hits the front page with 40 diggs? Wow, what an invention.

some pubs in Dublin have coin operated table toppers for Guinness, they have been around for ages though...

I hate inventions like this, only because it makes me kick myself and wonder why the hell didn't I think of something like that.. I mean, I like beer (especially on tap), I am lazy, so I don't want to keep getting up to go to the bar, I am also impatient so I don't want to wait for the waitress to come by.. All the things that this invention cures, I have been living my whole adult life.. I should have thought of this.. DAMMIT!!!

Amaaaaaaaazing "thumb up"

80 something diggs and already down? any mirrors?

To those interested in owning one of these -

Just remember Home Depot is a hardware store first and foremost..
and a market for creative college students to create beer drinking devices second.

Here's a link to the same story on USA today:
http://usatoday.feedroom.com/index.jsp?fr_story=FR ...

This is screaming Nobel Prize!!

I love Digg. I go from WTF,WTF, WTF when I hear about a guy microwaving his baby to AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME when I read about bar tables with beer taps. Such a range of emotions on Digg. Beer taps on bar tables...SWEET!

WOW! Humanity will be finally saved!

/sarcasm

I love beer, but what's the big deal? You guys act like he cured cancer or something, "GREATEST invention ever, ZOMG i'm going to Atlanta!, etc." It's a convenient idea, sure, but it's not life altering.

The AP reports that 26-year old Jeff Libby has created and sold what will probably be looked back on as the first great invention of the 21st century. Stem cells are cool and all, but this guy has really done it. He has created and sold the first “Table-Top Beer Tap” system to a sports bar in Atlanta. It cost the bar $50,000 in total, but they’ve got 30 of them installed in the place. Isn’t this on the level of flying cars and rocket packs? As kids we always wished we could just somehow rewind live TV and up stepped TIVO to make our dreams a reality. Jeff Libby is 2008’s version of TIVO. Thank you Jeff.

The system measures your pourage and charges you by the ounce. Makes sense to me.

Oh, and how does this relate to baseball? Do I really need to answer that?

Video after the jump…

video link: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4u89e_table-top- ...

As I watched the video all I could see was the type of people I dont like, and that don't like me.

I'll buy a six pack and take it home.

i have one of those miller lite taps

Great fix to crowded bars... love it!

I'm gonna invent the in bar keg stand

Meh, we've had the equivalent of the table tapper in my campus' main bar for a long time, a very very long time.

I've been to a bar that already had this kind of table tap 6 years ago, here in Portugal. How is this new?

yeah well checkout their ratings from the locals.(citysearch) I'm gonna see for myself though.

Have fun cleaning all of those lines. That beer is going to taste real nasty, real quick. Its expensive to clean long line because you have to eventually flush them with beer, beer you cant drink afterwards. Sweet concept nonetheless.

I went to Stats in Atlanta for my birthday last year. I never heard about the tap at the table system until my girlfriend told me about the place...at which point I nearly crapped my pants. However, we found out that everything wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Not only do you have to reserve one of the beer tables, you have to have at least 6 people at the table and spend at least $60 (I think) per hour or they move you from the table. Not only that, it's not like the tap is open for the whole time and you pay at the end; it's open for about a pitcher's worth of beer, at which point someone with a key has to come and turn the tap back on. Plus, the thing we didn't know is that each beer table has different beers and they can't be changed (or at least that's what they told us).

It was a pretty cool idea, but Stats just didn't do it for me. Sure the food was good, but for a sports bar, it was a little too much on the trendy side (they tried to make a sports bar like a night club). I'll just stick with Taco Mac.

We`ve had these in Ireland for years

Sounds a lot like the kegbot: http://kegbot.org/project/

I don't get it. What's to stop other people coming pouring their pints off your tap? How does it know who's who?

Better then sliced bread? As someone who has tried to slice my own I think not!
The bars are going to make a ton of money on this because people don't know how to pour beer. It will foam or overflow and they will have to buy extra that they don't drink.
But I do think it would be great paired with this: http://www.ontap4u.com/commercial.htm (scroll down the picture sums it all up.)

In Belgium, beer drinks you... hik...
http://www.belgian-beer.net/fullindex.php

Better then sliced bread? I suppose since thats last millennium.
I think that would pair well with this: http://www.ontap4u.com/commercial.htm (scroll down to get to the point. The picture sums it up. A friend of mine is working on this.)

Very cool, can't wait till they start to distribute these in California.

That is amazing. Mmmmm... There's a place in LA that has a similar thing but with wine... http://www.vinumpopuli.com/

Stupid drunkards.

Is this the best you can come up with?

When I was kid I always dreamed of a system like this! I always found my empty cup to be sitting a bit too long. I'm a thirsty person! I wanted my own restaurant where each table had its own fountain drink station. This is pretty much it! I can't wait until it appears in more bars and even more restaurants with a variety of beverages. A flat rate for unlimited soda.