Masshightech.com has an article about Moobella winning a new round of fundraising to continue to improve their on-demand ice cream vending machines. Moobella has “burned” through $25M and secured an additional $18M. The idea of an ice cream ATM has a Jetsons quality to it. I attended a superheated demo in Kendall Square, where the atmosphere was breathless with imminent success. The ice cream has certainly gotten better but why anyone who didn’t live on a space station would want this stuff is beyond me. At least at this stage of development. I may simply lack vision. The company has tested machines at the Natick Mall and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The WPT test went well.

For the details go to
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/09/14/daily61-MooBella-advances-on-demand-ice-cream-machine.html

A final personal comment is the name isn’t very good. I’ve never been fond of cows and the juxtaposition of “moo” with the Italian “bella” is contrived.

1. A Devout Patron on September 30th, 2009 at 9:01 am

   “Never been fond of cows”?! What do you have against this species that provides most of your income? I was taken aback by this remark.