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- Ilyanep, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45So...hard...to...choose.
I can imagine my idiot friends pressing all of the buttons if I were to buy one of these and ruining it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38You'd have to sell these from a vending machine. At your local Kwik-E-Mart some kid would just push all the Strawberry buttons in and ruin the drinks for everybody.
- ashtonium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27well of course you'd have to push all the buttons on the first go. I mean what do you do when you get a soda cup? --You push in all those buttons on the lid.
I think I might save the caffeine bubble though... try drinking it straight... who's with me? ;) - JustMatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24At least the first time I tried one, I know that I would fit in the category with your idiot friends. Its just too tempting.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Not a total loss. When you're done, you can make a programmable bong with it :D
- scogoth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15That is something you will never understand. We do it because we can!
- greenbox, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16something like this sounds to cost like 5 dollars a bottle, it better be the best dam tasting soda ever.
- colinnwn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I guess no one here worked a soda fountain when you were a kid? Mixing all the flavors was called a suicide. We did it all the time. Yummeee.
Soda is bad for you anyway. The leaded stuff is empty calories and promotes diabetes. The unleaded stuff encourages people to eat more because they figure they are drinking a diet drink. And the phosphoric acid in all of the stuff is bad for your teeth and disolves calcium out of your bones. Where is Ralph Nader when you need him? - LouisC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Not to mention that it's just plain cool :D
/me wants Coke with a double-dose of caffeine... Actually... Triple dose :D - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Programmable you say? Then it's just a matter of time before someone successfully installs Linux on it.
- Justice101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Imagine how much more you would be getting for your money, just refill it with water, and later just pop a different one :>
- evalf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I wonder if the cost added by this technology over standard sodas would be balanced by the economies made on the logistics, since there is only one reference to sell.
- abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Sounds very wasteful, you will select the drink you want and all of the other flavors will be thrown out.
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http://hackedgadgets.com - Spybot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7as a whole, yes
- zabouth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6it looks to me like it's just bubbles on the side of the bottle when you press it, it brakes a seal and the liquid runs into the bottles this will only cos a few pence (UK) to do.
- protocoI, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@thecoolestcow
Yeah, they actually do sound alike in Japan.
%u30EC%u30E2%u30CD%u30FC%u30C9, or remoneedo, is how you spell Lemonade in Japonese.
However, if you take the "do" off the end, it still sounds like remonee still sounds like Lemonade, because we don't put a hard emphasis on the D sound at the end of "Lemonade".
I actually don't even say the D, just rest my tounge on the back of my alveolar ridge at the end of the word.
Next, if you say "Lemonade", at least, when I do, I generally don't say "Lem-mOh-Naid", it's more of an "Le-muh-naid". That "uh" is right in between mo and mu, so it's basically interchangable. Now we have "remunee", which still sounds a whole lot like "Lemonade"
Now, just shorten the e sound, and change the 're' to a 'ra' for style, and you now have "ramune" (Pronounced "rah-moo-neh", if you haven't realized).
So yes, in Japanese, they sound quite alike. :) - patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'm waiting for Maxxuss to hack it.
- JustMatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What I want to see is this soda sold in standard vending machines. It would fall and press the buttons. The machine would have buttons: "Root Beer, Dr. Pepper, Coke, blah blah, Random" and the random one would be this soda with buttons for each of the previous listed, for those of you who just never can decide. Come on, you know that would be a cool Idea.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Uhmm, wouldn't it be more cost effective to sell bottles of the liquid in a vending machine, and the user chooses which flavour they want and that's dispensed as a sachet of ... stuff which they then put in the liquid? You still get the choice at point of consumption but you don't throw away 4 out of the 5 flavours you don't want.
Haven't self-service coffee machines essentially worked like this for years? - scarybunnyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yes, but it takes the gimmick out of it. People and kids are used to pressing buttons every day to get what we want (vending machines/computers/elevators, you name it) Its much more fun to press it and watch it happen yourself..
- diggtard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The cost of the flavorings and other additives is basically nothing. Although it does seem a waste of resources to throw out Sprite flavorings when drinking a Coke.
- themacboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone read Pixel Juice by Trippy British Author Jeff Noon?? (http://www.jeffnoon.com/pixeljuicenotes.php) It is a collection of short stories and one of them is about a soda that tastes different depending on how you twist the cap. Truth IS stranger than fiction!
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This could make things more profitable for Pepsi or Coke for example-- they would only have to produce one type of soda which could lower manufacturing costs.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is exactly what I was thinking, but more just in terms of wasted materials.
Are the materials wasted by not choosing to add flavors, etc, in a single type of disposable beverage less then the materials wasted in say 20 variety of beverages that don't all sell evenly.
I suppose given the extremely long shelf life of sodas, it'd be difficult, but if this concept were applied to dairy products and fresh fruit/vegetable juices it could really have advantages. - constantine11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3$12 bottled water proves that this is a viable idea. All someone has to do is slap a designer label on this, concoct some breathless story behind the products roots and proceed to make a fortune.
Things don't have to make sense or be practical to be lucrative. - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"Want more flavors? Make them!"
It lets us have more fun with (and control over) soda, and lets companies be slightly less creative (or more creative, depending on how you view it). - Spybot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4let me know when they go public. i think the kids will love this. i want stock.
- acontorer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's a very clever idea. I'd probably go for it. Saves shelf space, which is a terrific win for stores -- queueing theory shows that trying to keep 10 flavors in stock requires far more units than trying to keep one master flavor in stock, basically becasue in you can't accurately predict the exact demand on each flavor, so you need to have extra of all of them.
Now, if we could just get them to stop misusing the word "programmable", since this is not. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't think it's just novelty, there's practical value in using this 'programmable' bottle. I think people overestimate how much it costs to produce it, and underestimate the cost of handling it.
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"What will they think of next?"
A bag of potato chips that feeds you whenever you want a chip. - pHr34kY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That would be great when people start extracting the caffeine from an entire crate, then drinking it all at once!
Apart from that out sounds pretty cool. - kimos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4There are lots of things that exist just because they're interesting.
Look at Ramune soda for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune
http://images.google.ca/images?q=ramune soda
It has a marble sealing the bottle shut, and to drink it you push the marlbe into the neck of the bottle so it rolls around as you drink. It doesn't make the drink any more practical or delicious, it's just a gimic to attract attention. - pmhesse, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7And still, no cure for cancer...
- TheSevenDuffs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i dont think they could make self dispensing caffeine because people could just save a lot and OD
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I thought the same exact thing. I need to get in on this.
- Dohko_Xar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Have humans really reached to point of stupidness where they cant choose a soda?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wasteful, yes. But labor and stocking unsold drinks is probably for important for shop owners and supermarkets. I suppose people could donate their unused flavors or something.
- rockintom99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1man, to buy one, it must be horribly expensive. i'll stick with my 20 cent cans of safeway select, thank you very much :)
- mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kewl.
I thought it was gonna be some sort of microchip embedded soda, tho. - samstr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Programmable bong rofl!! Lovely idea. digg++++
This bottle seems like a great idea and I would buy it.
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http://www.wirah.com - Prometheus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That's exactly what I was thinking. Just add some soda water and presto 5 sodas for the price of two (the original and the plain soda water)
- kunit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is awesome, buttons on a bottle that lets you choose what you want in the drink? the person that came up with this idea is a genious and i love soda, especially pepsi, who doesn't love pepsi? if someone were to go in the middle of a street and say who hates pepsi, 5 people would come out of their homes and beat that person with sticks, this is off topic but it's funny
- R4wBon3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I found it hilarious that on the 'mind map' slide they have listed all of the possible additives; they put caffine under the nutrients child instead of the drugs child.
Oh and, I had to look at this from integrated explorer since Opera barfed on it. - Speckles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Throw the other flavors out? I'd collect the unused flavor buttons and keep them for adding flavors during cooking or something.
- ianweir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3As has been said, seems wasteful. Another thing though, is that you would have bratty children in the grocery stores that would push every button on every bottle, giving you a horrible cocktail of everything, that nobody in their right mind would buy.
I can't see it successfully making it into wide use.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Interesting, but despite disadvantages others have mentioned, it would seem like the shops would like this sort of thing. No more oddball drink flavors that no one buys to occupy the fridge, and they can provide variety without stocking up for a particular flavor. Also less management decisions. It would be wasteful for the consumer & production, but less wasteful for merchants. Good idea methinks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nothing wrong with carbonated water. You can just use the carrot flavor if it's that important to you :P
- ghostaliaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think this is cool, yes cool. I really like the paint thing because sometimes when I goto buy paint I have not decided on a paint color for a room, but with this container on a paint can, then I could decide with the little lady & come accross a color and push the ol button, but for me this I would use & I want it also just because I can. Technology Rules Baby!
- kawaiirobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2C'mon, if you don't like the idea, don't buy them, I'm sure it's not going to completely replace conventional soda, but for those of us that can't pass up a cool gimmick, again Ramune, it will sell. I like the idea, especially since i love variants and unique flavors like cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper, and green apple Jones soda, so yea, I'd love to see these on the market, and just like everything else if you don't like it don't buy it.
- lavawalker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3>"What? Ya know, because lemonade and ramune sound oh so alike..."
That's the Japanese Engrish translation of it. %u30E9%u30E0%u30CD%u3002 "Ra-mu-ne."
Sometimes they shorten it to make it easier to say. So "Terebi" instead of "Television."
Edit: oops, got beaten ;) -
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