标题: Ice Cream Vending Machine That Prepares on Order [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-30-2010 08:44 标题: Ice Cream Vending Machine That Prepares on Order 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Based at Taunton, Massachusetts, Moobella invents the machine.
http://moobella.com/
My comment:
(1)
(a) moo (vi, n; imitative): "to make the throat noise of a cow"
www.m-w.com
(b) Italian adjective bella, feminine of bello handsome, beautiful (Late Latin bellus).
(2) Taunton, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton,_Massachusetts
(founded in 1637; took its name from Taunton, Somerset, in southwestern England)
(a) Taunton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton
(The [Somerset] town name derives from "Town on the River Tone" — or Tone Town)
(3) In the Moobella home page, check out the top horizontal bar for
(a) "Who is taking about us?"--link to Videos
Select Forbes profile "Maureen Farrell Forbes Boston"--shot at Curry Student Center, Northeastern University that hosts a Moobella machine.
(b) "Any questions?"--link to FAQs.
(i) "up to 96 different varieties. The MooBella® Ice Creamery can accommodate up to 12 flavors, 3 mix-ins and 2 different ice cream types (Premium and Light)"
You learn from
permutation 排列
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation
that 12 X 3 X 2 = 96.
Combination 組合 is different from permutation in that "In mathematics a combination is a way of selecting several things out of a larger group, where (unlike permutations) order does not matter."
combination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination
(ii) 4.5 oz
An ounce (abbreviated: oz, the old Italian word onza)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce
is 28.3 gram.
Price is around $3.
(4) Sara Schwartz, Unusual Vending Machine Foods Around the World. Delish, Sept. 8, 2010.
http://www.moobella.com/manager/images/upload/4551335b3e35a7aafcfcb4b7d24e2eca.pdf
(a) french fries (Australia)
(b) pizza (Italy; Let's Pizza)
(c) beer can (Japan)
(d) pecan pie (at Berdoll Pecan Farm in Cedar Creek, TX)
(e) fresh eggs (Japan)
(f) canned bread (Japan; brand Pan Desuyo (which means "This is bread!")
desuyo
(g) milk carton (Europe)
(h) Moobella
(i) Rice (Japan; in 10-kg sacs)
(j) wine and champagne (US)
(k) cotton candy (US)
(l) grilled hot dog (US)