Hydraulic typewriter mixes cocktails out of the letters you type

Morskoiboy created an hydraulic typewriter that mixes cocktails -- the typewriter keys inject different liquids into a big LCD-like display, which then decants them into a waiting beaker.

So, if you’re interested, let me explain this contraption and the mechanism that makes it work. At the top of the machine there is a slot into which a bottle with alcohol, water, or even milk can be screwed. The essence of the art here lies in the ability of the syrups or liqueurs to tint the neutral color of the liquid. In the picture below you can see the connector itself and the regulator (which is actually an IV Rate Flow Regulator I picked up in a drugstore), which opens or closes off the air flow into the bottle and thus acts as an on/off switch. Once it enters the machine, the liquid spreads across the fourteen tubules.

Now I can literally taste the flavor of my words! (Thanks, Sergey!)

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bcsizemo

I bet that’s fun to clean…
Bubba73

Looks like Willy Wonka
Tastes like poo?
- cymk
  
  Your right, it looks like it got swiped from Willy Wonka’s factory. As far as taste goes I think it would depend on the flavors combined. A grape, cherry, and berry combination would be tasty; but a lime, pina colada, and liquorice flavor could (and probably would) suck ass.
pKp

Doesn’t have a patch on the Pianococktail : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7IkNrL-zw

(originally created by French surrealist-jazzman-poet-playwright-songwriter-novelist Boris Vian).
goldenmansacks

That’s how techno viking mixes drinks.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2XR5THKMMTGJ4OQUTTYD67LAOI Martin

What an ingenious typewriter and beautifully built too.

I collect 19th century typewriters from the 1880s and 1890s, the ‘Wild West’ of typewriter designs. If you would like to see more unusual typewriters, please visit my website at antiquetypewriters.com

You will be surprised.

Cheers,
Martin
http://twitter.com/samteebee Sam

Reminds me of the pianocktail: http://blubee.com/theblog/?cat=44
Robert Cruickshank

“That’s not typing. That’s drinking” -Jack Kerouac
Huwman

I can imagine William Burroughs using a blender to write books, so I guess this makes as much sense.
- Guido
  
  It makes more sense after you drink, for sure.
http://twitter.com/cicadamania Cicada Mania

Looks like it makes “Purple Drank”! Now that’s the typewriter for me.
http://twitter.com/cicadamania Cicada Mania

Burroughs used to make a similar machine, but it only made majoun, Eukodol and herion. According to Wikipedia.
Shawn RIchardson

Looks like it would be right at home at the Korova Milk Bar.
bingowings85

Skittles Vodka anyone? This machine is dope.
Douglas Armour

And then there’s A Rebours by JK Huysmans, in which decadent Jean Des Esseintes plays an organ that emits perfume instead of musical notes.
Mr. Protocol

Anybody remember the Gallagher stories by Henry Kuttner? A guy who was a genius inventor, but only when he was soused, invented a “liquor organ” that let him lie back on a couch, and by playing an organ keyboard, pour drinks of amazing quantity and variety directly down his throat.
- Mim
  
  Boris Vian (also mentioned above by pKp) translated the works of Henry Kuttner… does anyone know if that’s where Vian got the Pianococktail from?