ice cream
Random Stuff
Steve’s Ice Cream
8:50AM Jesus Diaz | The Man is back, and he’s holding a cone: “I feel great. I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good. I’m eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream.” Hmmmm. Ice cream. [NYT]
Science
The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow
10:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The Cloud Project is a tricky little concept that would spray flavored condensation and liquid nitrogen into clouds, “seeding” them, and forcing flavored snow to fall from the heavens. It’s pretty much straight of of a children’s book. More »
Gadgets
Make Perfect Ice Cream with the $3US5,000 NitroCream N2-G4
12:20AM Mark Wilson | You could freeze ice cream with about 10-cents of liquid nitrogen and a bowl. Or, you could use the luxurious $US35,000 NitroCream N2-G4. More »
Gadgets
Tonda Rotating Ice Cream Display Tilts Deliciousness Into View
10:40AM Jason Chen | Makio Hasuike’s Tonda rotating ice cream display is to regular displays as air conditioning is to using a fan. More »
Gadgets
Ice Cream Keeper Lets You Ice Cream It Up Anywhere
10:20AM Jason Chen | This Zak Designs Ice Cream Keeper could be the best thing I’ve ever seen. I mean, keeping up to a pint of ice cream cold so you can eat it in the car, on the toilet, in the office, in the office toilet and in public bathrooms? How is that not genius? The freezable gel insert is where the magic happens, and I for one am in for three. [Zak via Coolhunting]
Announcements
Notes: Eat Honey Bee Vanilla Hagen Dazs, Save the Bees From Your Mobile Phones
10:06AM Brian Lam | Hagen Dazs is selling a limited edition brand of honey flavored vanilla ice cream and it is the most incredible flavour I have ever experienced. But don’t eat this ice cream for the benefit of your palette. Do it for the bees. Which your mobile phones are allegedly murdering. More »
Design
The Ice Lounge: Custom Seating to Enhance Ice Cream Eating
7:20AM Sean Fallon | I like ice cream as much as the next guy, but all I need to enjoy it is a spoon or a cone and a nice hot day. However, Swiss ice cream manufacturer Mövenpick has taken things a step further by hiring Claudio Colucci to design a chair specifically customised to enhance the ice cream eating experience. The result is the “Ice Lounge”–a white cocoon that supposedly relaxes the mind and body while heightening the senses to the complex, sugary flavours. It also features a built-in music system, so hardcore ice cream connoisseurs are free to pair metal music with mint chocolate chip. Unfortunately, the Ice Lounge is for special events only. [Claudio Colucci via Le Design via The Design Blog] More »
Gadgets
Best Summertime Gadget Ever: Fizz Cup Bottle Top Makes Ice Cream Sodas Anywhere
12:30AM Matt Buchanan | Damn I love me some ice cream sodas. Coke floats, root beer floats, whatever. They are the ultimate in 45-degree-weather deliciousness. Problem is, it’s hard to find them anymore. But Fizz Top will let you make them anywhere—screw it onto a soda bottle, add whatever ice cream you want, and then squeeze the carbonated sugar water of your choice into the top for floaty awesomeness. What’s great is that since you control how much soda mixes with the ice cream, you can get the consistency exactly how you want it: drinkable soda ice cream, or ice cream with a splash of soda. Man, this just makes the rainy day outside my window that much more depressing. [Firebox via Shiny Shiny] More »
Gadgets
Ice Cream Company Gives Away 10,000 Frozen iPods Inside Popsicles
7:20AM Jesus Diaz | After decades of popsicle promotions that included prizes printed on the stick, Brazilian ice-cream company Kibon has taken it to a new level by including the actual prize inside the popsicle: they will manufacture 10,000 specially made propsicles, identical in size and colour to the actual thing, frozen with iPod shuffles inside. We talked to Mentor Muniz Neto—creative director for Bullet Brazil, the company who got the idea—about how they worked with Apple to achieve this. More »
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