Noble Savage

I'm on the New Coke bandwagon.

Just went to the Ipifini home page (thank you Godamnlimey), and they are marketing for medicines . . . that makes sense, smaller carry load for the EMS people. I will support anything making EMS easier for the EMS people.

worthlessjuan: the under 15 crowd will buy it and think they are cutting edge

There, fixed that for ya. ;)


/under 30
//over 15
///closer to 15 than 30, though

Ever wonder why you pay $1 for some flavored carbonated water?

Well, that's how much they can charge and people will buy it.

You think the cola companies that have spent however many billions on branding will say, coke is button 1-2-2-3-3 on your can and Pepsi is 2-3-3-3-4 ?

They might use this "technology" to come out with some overprices lame product, call it Pepsi-boost, where you can pump up the caffeine or something...

No, I don't work for the bottled soda industry but I am getting a kick out of these replies. Woohoo, reverse cliche.

TempusRob: There, fixed that for ya. ;)

OMG!! . . . there is hope! Thank you!

1. Drain all the Caffeine buttons
2. Make a drink of nothing but
3. ??
4. Die

One pepperoni-tapioca de-caf with a shot of tabasco please.

I wonder if hippos like to drink programmable soda pop?

DeMoN-X

1. Drain all the Caffeine buttons
2. Make a drink of nothing but
3. allow drink to evaporate leaving solid caffiene
4. smoke it

/fixed it for ya!

These people aren't exactly math whizzes.

A programmable paint container with twenty pigment additive buttons allows the consumer to choose from one million colors.

Um, right, except that actually you've got a potential of 2,432,902,008,176,640,001 options (20! + 1)... although most of them end up being 'crap brown'.

bobbooty
im 15 im not fasnated

Gimmicky and stupid.

Mmmm... Snakes in my Soda (or Coke, if yer in a red state)

/makes snakey movement with tounge...
hehlehlehleh

Coming Soon! (more)Snakes in the White House!

i like this idea.

How about a cell phone that doubles as a bottle of pop?

ok.....

Ipifini is licensing the technology to ... pharmaceutical companies.

Hrmm... Tylenol... *push* Codeine... *push* Demerol... *push* Morphine...

I do not forsee Pleer picking up on the technology...

tho I love the idea of hax0ring my 1337 p3ps1

w00t w00t!

Phrozen - now, with buttons!

snowman44:
im 15 im not fasnated

Nor are you in a rudimentary english/spelling class.

/17 years old
//sick of teenagers with the spelling ability of a brick

What the hell is "pop"?

I like it too. I prolly would never buy something using it, but if they can price it cheap (and lets face it.. if a small button is all the flavoring you need to change the taste.. it prolly taste cheap), I know many coke and pepsi knock off vendors who would love these to try and get another edge on people buying their drink over coke/pepsi.

Freefall90: And this is supposed to be cost-effective? Sure.

Another nail hitter. The idea is idiotic for consumer products.

Again, for the EMS who has to carry supplies down the ravine to help a car accident victim . . . a single bottle of neutral fluid that can become insulin, antibiotic, antihistimine, painkiller of any sort, anticoagulent, even placebo would seem very useful. Sure there is the same waste here for the not used additives, but seems at least slightly more justifiable.

Heh heh...soda pop...

I'm gonna be a asshole for just a sec and say that cola is a better word.

"Soda pop"...

We called it a 'Suicide'

we used to call it "sawmp water" cause it usually came with that "swamp water" look...


aptly named, i think...

Phrozen - Swampy goodness for your buttons

Sevenless, how do you pronounce that number? Bagillion? Oodles?

This is actually a nifty idea.

A company could release a product and have flavorings available on the bottle. If no one likes a specific flavor, then the product is not wasting.

Biggest problem with this will be shipping and distributing the product such that the flavor cells are not damaged, like during falls in a vending machine.

I think the greatest threat will be supermarket shelves. Everyone will be trying these out in store, resulting in a lot of wasting sody-pop.

The potential for a sweeping business model change is interesting. But, I think to have one product replace, for example, Coke's product line. Not sure how much syrup it takes to make Coke, but you'd need to have little buttons for Coke, Cherry coke, Vanilla Coke, Sprite, etc.. and a second set of each for Diet. That'd be a lot of potentially large buttons.

I agree, this is an interesting idea if they could save enough on the production to make the end-consumer product be cost competitive. Imagine -- one bottle, one label. One ad campaign.

I can see the billboards now --- "Push the button! Diet Coke with Honeydew!" :)

One soda company actually makes money selling soda that smells and tastes like turkey and gravy.

Mixing sodas at fountains is awesome. Why steal the fun with this crap?

I wonder what happens when it dumps core.

MrSpot: how do you pronounce that number


two point four times ten to the eighteenth.

someone has been reading Jeff Noon as non-fiction??

Obscure?

I would take all the caffine and color buttons and concentrate them into a death shot.

These people aren't exactly math whizzes.

A programmable paint container with twenty pigment additive buttons allows the consumer to choose from one million colors.

Um, right, except that actually you've got a potential of 2,432,902,008,176,640,001 options (20! + 1)... although most of them end up being 'crap brown'.


2^20 would seem more reasonable. Each of 20 pigments could either be added or not be added. 2^20 is just over a million.

red vines + lemon vanilla cherry-cherry blue-green cola = crazy nauseous

"I think in twenty years everything will be computerized."

"Soup won't be computerized!"

"Why not?"

"Because it's a liquid,stupid."

Fizzies?

How old is the technology? 1960's?

Flavored tablets you dropped in water.


/still waiting for flying cars
//with snakes on 'em

For all the caffeine fiends on this thread, you need a connection to a chem or bio lab. I worked next door to a guy who used to order pure caffeine and then stir it into his coffee with the sugar and milk. I don't know if he's still living cause I've long since moved on, but I always thought that was pretty stupid. He was not fun to be around, but he got a hellova lot of work done at all hours.

Could they make the bottles reusable? That might justify the $10 they'll be charging per serving.

Thanks WorthlessJuan. Just asking for when I make out the check.

Fizzies....1950's and 60s.


http://www.oldtimecandy.com/fizzies.htm

And yet, I'm betting that no matter which button or combination of buttons you press, or even if they eventually have programmable sport drinks with little biometric scanners to put into the drink just what your body's missing, the result will always be a beverage that tastes almost exactly unlike tea.

supaxi

Ever wonder why you pay $1 for some flavored carbonated water?

Well, that's how much they can charge and people will buy it.

Actually no, but I have wondered why you pay LESS for LARGER quantities of it.

/not really
//same reason
///but supply and demand control price right? Not marketing and disposable income?

The problem is they would have to account for all the combinations on the dietary information sheet. This doesn't seem possible ergo = teh failure.

Neat idea though... kind of scary that a drink technology could also be used for paint and meds though.

I think the bottle will contain the base product.
Coke or Pepsi.
Press red for Cherry Coke,
Press "Buzz" for caffeine,
Press White for Vanilla,
Press HCl03 for Pepsi Clear.

This won't be able to replace an entire line, but will be able to replace varieties within a particular brand name.

I don't think you'd be able to ship diet and non diet in the same bottle.

Dude, they should just sell you the flavour syrup in big ol' packages so you can drink it straight mix your own.

eraser8

This thread has made me thirsty for snake soda.

Snakes on a Plane soda - Kenan Thompson tested, Samuel L. Jackson approved.