This is like something out of … well, name your favorite frat party boy movie. "The Man Show" needed something like this. Homer Simpson and each of his buddies needs one of these things. The great beer hunters themselves, Bob and Doug McKenzie, famed for their "Great White North" records in the 1980s really, really needed this funky little appliance. It is a techno-marvel for…well, for people who don't want to get their own beer.

John Cornwell decided he didn't want to get up and get his own beer anymore either. So, instead of simply training a dog like most normal people would do, he decided to invent a refrigerator that would toss him one.

That's right - a refrigerator that would toss him one. It can lob a can at you from 20 feet away. Haven't you always wanted to arm your appliances with heavy projectiles?

Cornwell, who is a 22-year-old recent graduate of Duke University is a smart guy. In fact, he is supposed to be a software engineer. But you can't trust an engineer not to fiddle about with anything that isn't nailed down, or even things that are, even if those things aren't supposed to be his area of expertise. Engineers absolutely, positively cannot be happy unless they're altering something. They won't rest until they've figured out a way to get a thing to do something it isn't supposed to do.

Don't get ecstatic, though. This device does require operating a remote control. You have to do that little clicky maneuver. And you do have to catch the can right. Or else.

It isn't on the market yet, either. In fact, there is only one in the whole world, lobbing beers at its creator. Perhaps Cornwell can persuade a manufacturer to make gazillions of them and then we can all have one. Imagine what fun a war with your neighbors will be with your very own beer catapult. I'm not quite sure who would come out on the better end of that exchange, though - the aggressor or the aggressee.

A Beer Tossing Refrigerator

Posted by Rhonda.