Sunday, May 07, 2006

Ice cream anyone?

MooBella, a nine-employee company in Taunton, Massachusetts has developed a machine no larger than a Coke vending machine that instantly makes a scoop of ice cream from fresh ingredients stored within.

On the machine's front is a computer screen running on a Linux operating system. It displays menus of possible flavors and allows the user to create any combination, such as low-fat coffee ice cream with Oreo cookies. If the machine runs out of a flavor, it stops putting it on the menu and sends a message via a wireless Internet connection to MooBella asking for a refill.

Now I know what you're thinking, Windows can do the same thing. If a Windows machine runs out of a flavor, what would you get? You guessed it, a "Blue Screen of Death."