Coca-Cola Freestyle... WOOP WOOP!!!

[QueBert]

Eating some fast food today I saw the future of sugary drink goodness. I drink a crazy amount of soda, and would kill to have one of these in my house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZd-Rj-rdLE&feature=related

basically it's a uber high tech fountain machine. Touch screen with over 100 soda combinations. I had grape Vault, orange Coke, lime Fanta. FUCKING TITS!!! I did not see vanilla but I'm sure other locations offer it. This is easily the best use of technology I've seen in a long ass time. Coke is testing these machines in select markets, I hope they roll them out. the tech behind them is pretty damn impressive.

info on it:
The machine is more technologically complex than you'd imagine. The "PurePour" technology was originally developed to measure extremely precise amounts of dialysis and cancer drugs. Beyond that, RFID scanners are used to match cartridges to dispensers, and the onboard computer confirms everything is in place. Existing soda fountains use five-gallon concentrate bags and lots of backroom labor. Now all that is required is a highly concentrated 46-ounce cartridge inside a self-contained machine.

I drank a lime fanta, that shit don't even exist. 2 huge thumbs up for this revolution in junk food technology. Maybe it was all in my head, but the regular Coke even tasted better. So Cal has about 10 locations with them.

http://www.facebook.com/cocacolafreestyle?v=app_17037175766#!/cocacolafreestyle?v=app_10339498918 - locations

 

[zerocool84]

Gah the closest one to me is in Anacrime. Oh well I might have to take a detour when I go visit one of my buddies over there.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Well it's a good thing we finally found a use for those dialysis machines that the average consumer can take advantage of.

 

[techs]

Well it's a good thing we finally found a use for those dialysis machines that the average consumer can take advantage of.

Especially since health insurance is so expensive more and more people can't afford dialysis.

 

[ViRGE]

I just tried one of these at a new Five Guys tonight. It's the future of fountain drinks today. They have 6 varieties of diet coke alone! No one will ever be able to say that one of these machines doesn't carry their favorite drink - as long as it's not Pepsi.

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07SweYJTSM

 

[Powermoloch]

Oh the ironing

too much sugar = diabetes
diabetes = kidney failure
kidney failure = dialysis machine
dialysis machine = awesome soda dispenser with more sugar !

can't wait to try it out :awe:

 

[Dumac]

I tried one of these at a movie theater nearby (I think at the Americana?)...

It was amazing! Can't remember what combination I got though.

 

[Shmee]

sounds tasty and refreshing! How much?

 

[Linflas]

Well it's a good thing we finally found a use for those dialysis machines that the average consumer can take advantage of.

Yeah it would be horrible if mass production of these machines for the consumer market ended up lowering the cost of them for medical uses.

 

[BrokenVisage]

1 liter a FUCKING TITS please.

 

[rcpratt]

Awesome, a technology breakthrough to make us even fatter.

 

[slag]

Sorry to be debbie downer on all you folks, but these machines suck ass. Sure there are more combinations (who is really going to drink orange diet coke though), but you can make the same combinations at a regular fountain drink place that any 7-11 or kwik-shop has. In addition, if it is the sole fountain drink machine at the restaurant, be prepared for lines.. long lines, while people sit there and first figure out the machine, then figure out what they want, advance a screen, go back, pick something else, etc. The line at a close by wendy's was 21 people the other day and it wasn't worth going back for a refill. If there were multiple machines in an area with enough room for people to stand around and wait, it might not be such a big deal, but while the theory is good, the selection isnt that hot and the time it takes to pick what you want and go through getting your soda makes for long lines.

 

[SpunkyJones]

I saw one of these a couple of weeks ago, I was pumped to get some vanilla coke, and the kids liked being able to choose their flavors.

 

[Fritzo]

You seem to get very excited about soft drinks.

 

[RagingBITCH]

I used one once pretty recently at a taco joint. Honestly - it might have just been the shitty place it was at, but it didn't seem calibrated right at all. It tasted like ass.

 

[MisterJackson]

My son and I saw one of these in a Moe's a few weeks back. He attempted to make a suicide with all of the flavors, but stopped after 10 or so. It was not a pleasant taste.

 

[Wyndru]

I just manually mix every flavor when I'm at a fountain dispenser.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

have fun with your type 2 diabetes

 

[Modelworks]

http://www.sodastreamusa.com/
Make all you want in any flavor you want.

 

[alfa147x]

wtf is this 2010? This is old news!

 

[ViRGE]

http://www.sodastreamusa.com/
Make all you want in any flavor you want.

Have you ever tried one of those? It's terrible soda for the price.

 

[Nebor]

They had one of these five guys in Chicago.

 

[polarmystery]

Good luck with your type 2 diabetes goals in 2011

Fixed

 

[that_guy]

These have been around for a long time in Atlanta. Peach Vault is win.