The Somabar can be filled with up to six different ingredients: anything from vodka to cola to homemade moonshine. Those are poured into cartridges, which are equipped with an RFID chip and loaded into the machine. Using wifi, the machine connects to the Somabar app where you can let it know what's in each cartridge. From there, it will present you with a menu of cocktails to choose from based on your ingredients.

The ingredients are forced through the internal tubes, measured, mixed, and dispensed in a matter of seconds. All you need to add is ice. It rinses the system between each drink, so you don't have any cross contamination (nobody wants a gimlet that tastes a little bit like a Manhattan).

I wasn't quite sure why someone would want this. My boyfriend and I keep our bar as stocked as possible, budget permitting, and it's always fun to mix up new recipes for our friends by hand. But there seems to be a market: Somabar raised more than $300,000 through their Kickstarter. They were only asking for $50,000.