BEV - The Incredible Sampling Robot (BOS Ice Tea)

BEV is the world's first Tweet activated sampling machine.

Simply tweet her unique hashtag when standing in front of the machine, and enjoy an ice cold BOS Ice Tea on the house.

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  Science & Technology

[VincenTimes]

Shut up and take my Tweet!

[donald swanepoel]

Because we built it :)

The machine has geo-location functionality coded in. So you have to tweet with location switched on. If you are not within a certain proximity to the machine (which we can set), it won't dispense. In SA however not a lot of people have location activated on their handsets or on Twitter - so we disabled the feature. Instead, we coded in a timing feature which means the machine will only dispense every x amount of minutes (which we can set).

[saadk88]

it would be faster but that's not the point...

[Isa Atılkaya]

i can't take my eyes from that ugly pants.

[ILIK3HATERZ]

I'll take 1

[Nick Frost]

Love it! It actually says "ENJOY YOUR BOS ICE TEA... HUMAN."

[Nick Frost]

But then it would just be free iced tea, and not anywhere as innovative as using a Tweet as a form of currency.

[hvarashi05]

日本もはよ

[PreludioMusicRecords]

Great VID!

[WingTsunku]

wouldn't it be faster just to push the buttone on the machine? People are so weird...

[Ariel Hanks]

You sound confident. So where did you receive this info? If you are correct then the machine would be able to use bluetooth or NFC to know you are right next to it.