Bands Make Music by Licking Ice Cream. Wait–What?

February 25, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment 0 min read

Yes, it’s a solution in search of a problem, but anything involving ice cream can’t be all bad, can it?

Using some high-tech ice cream cones with embedded capacitive sensors, a four-piece band–they’re called Lickestra–was able to perform a song by licking ice cream. Full details at Wired. And please don’t tell Gene Simmons about this…

(Thanks to John for the link.)

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