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Automated Wine Snob

Posted October 16, 2006 6:00 AM
Pathfinder Tags: infrared sensors IR wine

It's a secret your cultured friends don't need to know. "Robo-sommelier" uses infrared sensing technology to taste wines. Its built-in voice then describes the wine, and recommends food pairings. Accurate but limited, the machine can only recognize several dozen of the thousands of varieties of wine.

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10/16/2006 7:04 AM

"If the winebot says it's so damn good, beam me up a bottle or two, Scotty!"

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10/17/2006 2:01 PM

Sounds interesting... Can you give us a source or more info? I suspect this is really only measuring the IR absorption, but it could be using spectroscopy. I'd like to know.

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