Inventors: Sebastian Kersting, Sandor Soeter
Invention: PeCoMix (the Personal Cocktail Mixer)
Inventor’s Location: University of Muenster, Germany

Two technical engineers from University of Muenster in Germany have invented a kitchen machine which looks like an espresso maker, but automatically mixes the perfect cocktail.

Before PeCoMix, for some people, there was the embarrassment and awkwardness of mixing drinks. No more. Now, with PeCoMix, there is no measuring or mixing. Just put a cocktail glass under the spout, select your poison and press the “start” button. Moments later you impress your guests with a tray loaded with the perfect party pepper-uppers.
PeCoMix was invented by Sebastian Kersting and Sandor Soeter. Both are from the University of Muenster in Germany. It took them around 18 months of effort to finally design PeCoMix, a personal cocktail mizer which stands 75 centimetres tall and houses over half a dozen bottles of soda and hooch, all ready to be mixed. The metal and plastic machine has a little window in front which allows you to peer inside at up to eight bottles which are mounted upside-down on a rotation device just waiting to be rotated. Depending on what it is loaded with, the machine can make up to 35 different cocktails automatically, according to the inventors. To make a cocktail, you just need to place a glass under the spout and select the cocktail you want from the digital read-out. The bottles rotate behind the little window and you get the finished cocktail in less than a minute. You just need to stir and serve.

The invention prototype won the Best New Invention of the Year award from WDR Television in 2007. Kersting and Soeter have already patented their invention.