• DocumentCode
    78979
  • Title

    Tasty Morxels

  • Author

    Myhrvold, Nathan ; Holman, P.

  • Volume
    50
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jun-13
  • Firstpage
    78
  • Lastpage
    82
  • Abstract
    Have you seen a vending machine lately? Most are still pretty basic: Put in some cash and out comes a can or package. But the most advanced models have computer processors and touch-screen displays that let you customize your order to a remarkable degree. Touch-screen drink machines, for example, use a set of flavor cartridges to create more than a hundred soft drink combinations, be it Raspberry Coke or Peach Sprite Zero. The Let´s Pizza machine kneads the dough, spreads it with sauce, cheese, and your choice of toppings, and then bakes it under infrared lamps-all in less than 3 minutes. And MooBella´s Ice Creamery takes a mere 40 seconds to create a customblended. dish of ice cream, with nearly 100 combinations of flavors and mix-ins.
  • Keywords
    food products; vending machines; MooBella Ice Creamery; Peach Sprite Zero; Pizza machine; Raspberry Coke; computer processors; flavor cartridges; infrared lamps; morxels; soft drink; touch-screen displays; touch-screen drink machines; vending machine; Food industry; Food manucturing; Food technology; Machinery;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2013.6521039
  • Filename
    6521039