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Vote for "BEVY" on Quirky! Track Your Beer!

Hey - 7 positive votes for the BEVY already! We're "trending" on Quirky.

I don't know how many votes it takes to get an expert panel review, but it's fun to see this process in action.

If you haven't already, head over there and vote.

I don't think this is going to make AAAD any money, but I certainly would like this thing to exist. I'd buy one.



Full disclosure - I got the idea for this invention from my father-in-law.

I was talking up the Quirky Egg Minder, and they laughed about how useless that kind of egg-inventory data was. "How much are a dozen eggs? Just buy more", they all laughed.

And then my father-in-law said - "now, if that thing was tracking beer, you'd have an invention."

And the BEVY was born. I submitted the SketchUp drawing above, along with a description.

Now it's up for public up/down votes.

I tweeted about it... and Quirky favorited that tweet!

I blogged about it.... and really this is about as far as I'm going to push this.

If people like it, awesome. If not, no big whoop.

But imagine a future in which all of the beer bottles in your fridge are lined up just-so, labels facing outward.

For those of you with 18-year-old kids, imagine a future in which you know precisely what beverages are in your refrigerator, and precisely when they're moved.  

This could change everything. 

Well, not really. It's a wi-fi beer mat. But it could be cool to see in action. Vote for it!

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