This may be my favorite beer story of all time. I’m so proud of this guy that I wanted to be sure all Duke University donors got a chance to see the kind of “outside-the-fridge” thinking a Duke education can provide.

Heart-lung machines, lunar modules, the internet…these things are Tinkertoys! A Duke University student has made one of the most important cultural contributions in human history.

Duke student John W. Cornwell has invented something long-needed and surely to be copied—a beer-can catapult that can pitch you a cold one from across the room, sparing you the effort of rising, going to the fridge and missing even one precious second of a televised Blue Devils’ basketball game.

The video that appears on the following link will show you one of the world’s ultimate inventions. Pay close attention to the trial accuracy test. It’s phenomenal! Even better than Duke’s best free-throw shooter ever. I’m not going to comment further—the video speaks for itself.

Cut and paste this one into your browser window for an eye-popping experience. Here it is: http://www.duke.edu/~jwc13/beerlauncher.html