Wednesday, October 8, 2008

the future is now

I'm not trying to over-do it with the vending machine posts, but I saw something amazing today. It was a new way to obtain our nation's most precious commodity - something that tells me just eight years into the 21st century, we are already prepared for the 22nd.

Dippin' Dots...in a vending machine...in our hotel. That's right, the Ice Cream of the Future, here now at our convenience. It's so futuristic, I'm not even sure how it works, except for pure robotic genius. What I extracted from gazing through the "anticipation window" was this electronic arm with futuristic suction powers somehow opens this "freezer" device where the tiny iced morsels are kept at dangerously cold temperatures.

From there, my only guess is magic fairies carry the cup o' dots to the release portal and consumption can commence. It's really quite a process, one I didn't see arriving until some point in the distant future, but our society clearly has progressed into a revolutionary era.

3 comments:

Marissa DeMercurio said...

They come in little pockets like freeze dried ice cream the astronauts eat in space. They have it at the Centerra movie theatre.

Connie D. said...

Maybe since you got Marissa's espresso machine, you could buy her one of those machines. Or maybe you should get one for yourself and put it next to your gas station latte machine when you get it!

Marissa DeMercurio said...

Yeah-- in your movie theatre inside Grammy and Gramps' basement!