Taste your favourite music!

A company in Japan has designed a piece of tech that lets you taste songs you like.

It’s called ‘Squeeze Music’ which, far from being an audio retrospective of Jools Holland’s old band, analyses the emotional content of any track and turns it into liquid form. Imagine a jukebox/juice bar hybrid and you’re almost there.

The software in the jukebox/juice bar mash-up works by analysing waveform of a song then ascribing their myriad moods with corresponding flavours.

So, happy is signified by sweetness, excitement by sourness, sadness by bitterness and saltiness for sentimentality. Therefore, something like Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry (Be Happy) would taste like the kind of sugar rush that might give your dentist a coronary, while Dancing with Tears in My Eyes by Ultravox would be like sucking on a case of lemons. And, while it’s still only in the prototype stage, its makers — The Nomura Open Innovation Lab — are hoping it’ll become a favourite at music festivals where punters can drink the songs as they watch them being played.

Texas toilet seat art museum for sale

A man in Texas is looking to pass on his unique collection of toilet seat art that he’s created for about half a century.

Barney Smith, 69, is offering his ‘Toilet Seat Art Museum,’ containing more than 1,300 hand-decorated toilet seats, to the highest bidder.

Smith told Fox 29 he decided it was time to sell the museum after noticing he wasn’t able to produce art as quickly in his old age.

He’s seeking between $15,000 and $20,000 for the museum and hopes to find a buyer dedicated to preserving the collection.

“I want somebody to keep it as a museum,” Smith told. In the meantime, the museum will operate normally, accepting visitors by appointment free of charge.

Ice cream bouquets hold up to 21 scoops

The stuffed bouquet was debuted on the ice cream company’s Instagram account in celebration of National Ice Cream Cone Day. But the company didn’t only release it for the day. Oh no, they’ve added it to their menu so that all of their customers get the chance to give it a go.

While you don’t have to have 21 scoops, with some customers opting for 10 or less, the stuffed ice cream bouquet is a chance to order as many ice creams as you like without anybody looking at you like you’re crazy.

The shop offers flavours such as white chocolate lavender, pumpkin spice, blueberry cheesecake, and black sesame. Of course, the ice cream bouquets do raise a few questions. Like, how are you supposed to finish the lot without covering your hands in melted ice cream? How do you stop it from falling all over the floor and ruining your day? And most importantly – how do you decide which flavour is important enough to stick at the top?

Bat wing biscuits topped ice cream

Now visitors at Disneyland can enjoy a new treat — the Bat Wing Raspberry Sundae.

Available at Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream in California Adventure, the sundae is made up of white chocolate and raspberry swirl ice cream, topped with a raspberry syrup drizzle, red sprinkles, and a pair of bat wing cookies. Drool.

The sundae’s not the only thing Disneyland is offering for scary season. Disneyland is also now selling mummified Mickey pops, salted caramel apple pies, ghost-themed toffee apples, and ice cream cones decked out in Halloween themed orange and black sprinkles.

Published in Dawn, Young World, October 28th, 2017