Drunken Nerds Seen By Many, Blog Reports

College students have come very far from the stereotypical drunken frat boys of the football team. Now, even the honor science societies are drunken frat boys, although some 'modding' of the 'hardware' was to be expected. Meet the Kegbot, a normal kegerator with an electronic reader for a device called the iButton. The iButton collects information on the keg's activity, temperature, users, etc. and then sends it to a main server, where the data is displayed and compared against all the other drunk MENSA members in the world.

There's an article about it on the Washington Post that talks about how the idea came about between a group of very intelligent and highly respected hackers and software programers working on bugs and code for RFID devices. Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a method of storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is a small object, such as an adhesive sticker, that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person. RFID tags contain antennas to enable them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver. Passive tags require no internal power source. So I'm sure you can see where the connection is.