Sadly, the Bev-Cam doesn’t take any actual pictures. Now that would really be something. Instead, this handy pocket-sized product is for the true alcoholic, who needs to hold a few nips into a device designed to deceive others. I’d assume that after downing the 5 ounces of alcohol that this unit holds, you might be running around, acting like you’re taking pictures.

Parent company Binocktails says that the Bev-Cam comes with the flask, a carrying case, and a funnel for easy filling — hopefully just not in your car.

This product might make for a fun gift for the just-over-21 crowd, as well as bachelor and bachelorette parties. A gift for yourself? Well, that might just be more on the sad side. Either way, I’d have to guess that if you own one of these, the family will never have to tell you to smile and say, “Cheese.” As a matter of fact, someone might have to slap you to get you to stop doing those things.

Just in case a camera doesn’t manage to hide your alcoholism all that well, Binocktails also makes the Bev-Burry, which holds 3 ounces of your favorite beverage inside a faux Blackberry.  That one runs $11 and includes a clip-on holster.

Both products, along with the original 16-ounce binocular double flask ($17), are available exclusively on the Binocktails website.

If you’re the smart couch potato, you stop sweating and simply pick up your Clicker Universal Remote.

The Clicker is a sleek and attractive universal remote with a bottle opener integrated into its side. Control for up to eight electronic components is available: There are component select buttons for TV, DVD, SAT, CABLE, VCR, CD, DVR, and AMP with 630 presets for most major brands and a preset search function for easy setup.

And then, of course, there is control of a ninth component: Your bottle cap. The one integrated opener is preset to handle thousands of major and minor brands, and there’s no need to utilize a function search here — the only search necessary is for the remote itself.

Evidently the company is currently out of stock and on back order, but you can leave your contact information to be notified when the stock is replenished. Cost should be around $25.

Your beer gut will thank you heartily.

The world’s greatest beverage hasn’t escaped the iPhone’s pull, either. While some of the gadget’s beery apps are worthless for anything but a laugh and even downright demeaning—come on, I don’t want to pretend I’m drinking a beer!—others are decidedly more useful. One such example is GreatBrewers.com’s BeerCloud.

Great Brewers describes BeerCloud for the iPhone thusly:

“BeerCloud is a revolutionary mobile app that helps you pair beer with food, track down your favorite beers in your neighborhood, discover the world of beer styles, and pull up a full description of nearly any beer in seconds. Whether you’re a beer consumer who could use some guidance in making a well-educated purchase, a food lover looking to discover new ways to enhance a meal with a complementary beer pairing, or a traveling beer enthusiast who wants to instantly map the closest stores, bars, and restaurants carrying your favorite beers, BeerCloud is an essential iPhone app.”

That means that, instead of having to pretend to drink a beer, you can find out just where to get the best ones, and even what type of food you should pair them with. BeerCloud is able to utilize the iPhone’s GPS receiver to point out exactly where to you should head when looking for that elusive one-off Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout or the nearest brewpub to your hotel.

Great Brewers’ database is being constantly updated, but it’s currently quite a ways off from those of BeerAdvocate or RateBeer. BeerAdvocate’s BeerFly tool is a great way to find the best breweries, brewpubs, beer bars and shops in an area, but it doesn’t integrate with your GPS to tell you where they are, so BeerCloud has a one-up in that aspect. And its other features only bolster its usefulness. The website touts the following for its app (which, in addition to iPhone availability, can also be nabbed for Google’s Android):

• Search the perpetually growing database of 2,900+ beers from GreatBrewers.com
• Descriptions include product image, style, taste profile, food pairing recommendation, strength (ABV), color (SRM), and bitterness (IBU)
• View more than 400 brewery pages for a description and a list of beers they produce

For beer lovers sporting iPhones in their pockets, BeerCloud is perhaps the greatest addition to portable beer connoisseurship since Oskar Blues put Ten Fidy in a can.

And undoubtedly BeerCloud would be quite apt at telling you where you can grab a can or six.

The creators at Underdevelopment say “We get it that some chicks just don’t want that pregnant look that comes with The Beerbelly.” Man, those guys have their fingers on the pulse of women! For $29.95 what could possibly make a better gift this holiday season?

What are the two biggest problems with beer pong? Bad racks and spillage! There is nothing worse than someone who lacks the ability to tightly re-rack and pattern a set of cups. Except maybe a couple of sissies who fail to put enough alcohol in their cups to keep them glued to the table, causing cups to topple and precious booze to be wasted.

Check out the beer pong rack from The Founding Collegians and you’ll never again have to worry about opponents so drunk from a night full of beatings that they can’t figure out how to construct a basic geometric shape or girls wasting your entire roll of paper towels just to clean up their fallen soldiers.

The Beerbot is prepared to follow your full drinking cycle, from cooling cans, opening the flip top, and pouring perfectly into chilled glass mugs. But wait, there’s more! The R2-D2-esque bot stores and refrigerates up to six cans, comes with programmable voice controls, a child lock, 2 custom glass mugs, 6 foam cup bases, a plastic floor protector, and even has a self cleaning mode. It’s designed to work with Japanese sized cans (350ml), but has been tested with American-sized beer bullets (355ml) and worked just fine. No guarantee on other cans though, and no word yet on a glass bottle friendly version (fingers crossed).

When the Beerbot comes back in stock, be prepared to lay down a cool $800. Check out the official website for a video of the bot in action.

Don’t Break the Bottle is a wooden wine puzzle bent on frustrating porch sippers and dinner guests this summer. In fact, at $20 per puzzle, you could probably stand to stock up and start wrapping your “thanks for inviting me” gift bottles in this noodle scratcher. Before enjoying that lovely cabernet-merlot blend from Australia, hopeful lushes must first extract the bottle from the wooden maze cage (I’m not going to give away the secret, but it involves balls, ropes, blocks and pulleys).

For extra fun, wait ’til your friends are a few sheets in, and then hide the instructions.