Automated cocktail machine is a party room must-have

It's only a prototype, but that this contraption simply exists is yet more proof that we live in wondrous times. The so-called "Inebriator" may not mix drinks with the same panache as a live bartender, but it's armed and ready to pour drinks containing vodka, rum, tequila, gin, kahlua, coconut rum, peach schnapps, triple sec, blue curaçao and all the crucial mixers. Though the developers have been quietly tinkering with the Inebriator since 2011, recent exposure and interest means (please, oh please) we may yet live to see one of these miracles on the shelves of big box stores. All that's left is to pair this thing with an R2D2 drinks-serving robot and our lives will be complete.

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