ChocoBot

I live in a country where chocolates are a national obsession (Belgium). There's an entire culture around chocolates, with debates over new tastes, new forms and new combinations.

We also have some very famous chocolatiers who make customized chocolates like little works of art, at a nice price.

The idea is to "industrialize" this process, but without losing the romance of the métier.

Create transparent plastic automatons, like street vending machines, where the customer can make his own chocolates. He sees different kinds of "basic" chocolates with several forms to start with. He can then program a parcours which each chocolate should take.

There are countless options; the chocolates can drop into a vanilla liquid first, then roll over into a dry cocoa, next into a mild coffee liquid, then move on to finish off with a coconut powder.

At the end, all your individualized chocolates fall nicely into a fine box, and there you are.

You pay with a creditcard.

[My favorite chocolate scenario would go like this: a big walnut falls into dark, pure chocolate, rolls over into a quick bath of strong pastis liquor, followed by a hardening phase, to end with a dot and a dip into fresh natural menth.]