Last week we brought you mildly-cool, but apparently still very useless experimental, Japanese wine-tasting robot.

Not to be outdone, the Japanese beer industry presents us with the Asahi Refrigerator Robot:

It’s flaws are obvious and many:

• The robot doesn’t bring you the beer, you have to walk over to the robot;
• The robot takes an eternity to do anything;
• The robot spills beer everywhere; and, worst of all,
• The robot pours what looks like a terrible, frothy beer.

In fact, it looks like Doc Brown’s dog food dispensing machine from Back to the Future, with a fridge attached.

You Tube [via TechEBlog]

To be filed under problems you shouldn’t have anyway – using the same bar of soap for washing your face and, well, the rest of you.

The British (hence the spelling) have developed black/white, Arse/Face soap. Basically, oh, do we really need to explain it to you? Once you get it, you get it.

A few points grab us immediately, however:

• Surely no-one still washes their face with soap; and
• The British all take baths instead of showers, so regardless of which side of the soap they use, they’ll be splishing about in the lather anyway.

It’s largely a gag purchase. For some vulgar friend this holiday season for whom you can’t think of a real gift.

Arse/Face Soap [via Neat-o-Rama]