OK... so this is soooooooooo cool!
There is a new wine cellar prototype that has just been announced and has me grinning from ear to ear. ThingM has come up with a "smart" wine cellar system called WineM. WineM uses a system that integrates the bar code from a bottle of wine and links it to a coding system they call RFIDs. The RFIDs that are attached to bottles then display which wines you are looking for using LED back lights behind the bottles. Wine collectors (or anyone with a large wine cellar) can use it to search through collections, track the location of specific bottles and manage inventory with a minimum of data entry.
So, say you want to visually identify all wines in your collection that are from California. With this technology the system will already have that information stored into the program and will instantaneously light up those wines with a specific LED color. Same goes for if you want to search out different varietals and even food pairings! This is such an exciting new idea in wine cellar design and I can't wait for it to hit the market.
VIDEO: ThingM Smart Wine Rack
Oh that IS so cool. So if I wanted to drink a nice white wine from Nebraska's James Arther Vineyard I could make it light up blue. Awesome. I'll bet it costs a fortune.
Posted by: Bucket Trucks | 10/22/2010 at 02:07 PM