Ice cream cone lick

Designers Carla Diana and Emilie Baltz recently whipped up a musical performance where a quartet of players jammed using just a quart of vanilla ice cream. Capacitive sensors were embedded in 3-D printed cones that were perched atop pedestal-like boxes and when a tongue made contact with the creamy treat, a signal was sent to a hidden Arduino, assigned a sound by onboard software, and was pumped out through speakers. Vanilla was originally used, but the designers commissioned a custom flavor filled with Cayenne pepper. The exhibit has a humorous flavor, but was designed with serious intent. Ice cream can be the reward after a successful little league game, a consolation after a bad breakup, or, in the hands of gourmet geeks, a sweet musical instrument. Designers Carla Diana and Emilie Baltz recently whipped up a musical performance where a quartet of players jammed using just a quart of vanilla ice cream and some high-tech cones.

If you thought there was one only way to devour a scoop of ice cream, hold on to your seat — or your teeth. There's a new food debate in town, and it's bound to give you brain freeze. Licking a dripping cone of ice cream under the hot sun is a summer rite of passage. Something we never pictured in that scenario? Biting into that freezing cold ice cream.

It's no surprise: we all have different ways of eating ice cream. Some people prefer their frozen treats in cups while others want them mounted on top of extravagant waffle crisps. But the latest scoop is that how you eat your ice cream reveals what kind of person you are. Want to see how you match up?

Sidney Anderson. But they also do the darndest things. The weirdest, most bizarre, hilarious, and sometimes disgusting things. Still, nothing could have prepared her for the "trauma" of what happened last week, after Blakely handed her an ice cream cone she no longer had use for. According to Anderson, she bought Blakely a McDonald's ice cream cone on Monday, but halfway through eating it, Blakely decided she was done.