Chocolate

Cadbury Chocolate Will Literally Melt In Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand

The bright minds in Cadbury’s R&D department have done something amazing—they’ve created chocolate that won’t melt. Willy Wonka has to be real. Just has to be. The “temperature tolerant” candy remained solid, even after spending three hours in an incubator where the temp was 104 degrees, according to its patent filing. At that point it…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 28

Nestle Chocolate Syrup Fountain Is Classier Than Drinking Straight From the Bottle

Been on the hunt for a low-rent version of those luscious chocolate fountains you usually only see at weddings? Your search is over and your life is about to change for the better. Instead of high quality chocolate, this Nesquik-branded fountain runs on cheap chocolate syrup. You’re only suppose to put a few quirts of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

This Easter, celebrate with face-hugger-impregnated bunnies

If mixing monsters from the mind of H.R. Giger with a beloved Christian holiday is wrong, WE DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT. Oh, and if you find the image up top offensive, you definitely, definitely don’t want to click this. Seriously. You’ve been warned. Do you know the artist behind this unholy mashup? Let us…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 1

Snails form better memories thanks to chocolate, but do you?

Let’s say you wanted to analyze if the purported brain benefit of flavonoids in chocolate actually did anything. How would you go about it? By teaching snails, of course. Researchers from the University of Calgary set out to better understand the supposed memory benefits of flavonoids, specifically (−)epicatechin (epi), which is found in chocolate, red…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 28

Chocolate Record Woos Your Tastebuds and Destroys Your Needles

Vinyl records have been supplanted by other musical formats many times over by now, but a band called BreakBot has found the perfect way to help vinyl reclaim its popularity—delicious chocolate records! That’s right, the band’s latest album, By Your Side, can be purchased in two unique flavors—horribly inedible and possibly dangerous-to-consume plastic, or exquisite…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 21

Did Microsoft Steal Its New Logo From a Candy Company?

Ritter Sport makes fine German chocolate in a variety of flavors. Microsoft makes electronics and software of all sorts. Ritter is found in grocery stores, bodegas, and booze emporiums the world over. Microsoft is found in pockets and PCs and places of business all across the land. Both good companies. Both successful companies. But neither…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Sep 13

Chocolate could protect men from strokes

Not that anyone needs an excuse to eat chocolate, but a recent study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is suggesting that eating moderate amounts of chocolate each week may be associated with a lower risk of stroke in men. The CBC reports: Those eating the highest amount of chocolate had a 17 per cent…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 30

Want to prevent senility and keep your blood pressure down? Drink cocoa.

Did you know that chocolate could save your life? Two new studies are adding fuel to the claims that chocolate will make your life incredibly better. The first study looked at how flavanol-packed cocoa affected elderly patients experiencing mild cognitive impairment. Flavanol is a chemical in some chocolate that acts as an antioxidant. Subjects were…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 16

Scientists Invent Healthy Chocolate Made With… Fruit Juice?

While there’s some evidence that chocolate is good for you, the fact remains that it’s so full of fat and sugar that binging on it will make you fat. Now, though, scientists have developed a healthier version of chocolate using fruit juice—but how the hell does it work? https://gizmodo.com/chocolate-keeps-you-slim-5896690 In fact what they’ve done is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 14

Holy Crap It’s Edible Instagram For Chocolate

There are certain things we like at Gizmodo HQ. Instagram is one. Chocolate is another. Oh, if only they could somehow be combined without getting goo in your phone. Oh, wait, they can! Meet Cocoagraph. Vintage-style photos, printed on delicious chocolate squares. Yes, please? https://gizmodo.com/inside-instagram-how-slowing-its-roll-put-the-little-s-5878942 Cocoagraph is a Philadelphia-based confectionary with a rather unique twist:…

Tech News Brent Rose Jul 24

10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself

Suppose you’ve been given a few weeks to live, but you’ve decided you don’t want to spend your last days in a hospital bed. What if you decide, “Today is a good day to die,” in a suitably stentorian Klingon voice? And you want a method of self-annihilation that’s both interesting and nearly pain-free? Don’t…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 2

Gigantic 18,000 Pound Chocolate Mayan Temple Predicts the End of the World’s Diets

To celebrate Quinza’s 30th anniversary and the opening of the company’s new chocolate institute, chefs Francois Mellet and Stephane Treand created this six-foot tall 18,239 pound chocolate Mayan temple. It wasn’t the Europeans that wiped out the Mayans, it was diabetes. The chocolate version of the Kukulkan temple at Chichen Itza actually set a new…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 15

Wage War On Your Diet With a Chocolate Grenade

Easter is one of those magical days in the year when diets don’t exist. So today, in addition to a mountain of other sweet confections, you can enjoy Raphael Volkmer’s chocolate ‘Calories Bomb’ grenade that explodes with even more delicious shrapnel. Just think of it as an uneasy truce with your diet, although when you…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 8

3D Chocolate Printer Sadly Arrives Too Late To Churn Out Easter Bunnies

The creators of what will be one of the first commercially available 3D chocolate printers had hoped their device would hit the market well before Easter, letting consumers print their own cheap bunnies and eggs at home. But sadly the British-based Choc Edge won’t get its printer into the hands of the chocaholic masses until…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 8

Eat chocolate. Lose weight. Yeah, right.

By now you’ve heard the news: people who eat chocolate are thinner than those who don’t. It’s the perfect news story, and one that a lot of outlets ran with — ourselves included — but it’s also the kind of piece that science writer Deborah Blum says can contribute to public cynicism about science and…

io9 Deborah Blum - Knight Science Journalism Tracker Mar 30

Chocolate Keeps You Slim

It sounds whack, but a new scientific study suggests that people who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner. Sadly, that doesn’t quite mean that you can run out and stuff your face full of candy all day to keep your weight down—but it does mean you probably should be eating some chocolate regularly. The…

Health Jamie Condliffe Mar 27

Eating chocolate could actually help you lose weight

Chocolate, like any other candy, makes you fat. That’s such a basic and well-known fact that it’s easily taken for granted… but it could be wrong. New research reveals that people who regularly eat chocolate are thinner than those who don’t. Top image: Shutterstock.com That’s the finding of UC San Diego researchers Beatrice Golomb, Sabrina…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 26

Chocolate Millennium Falcon Will Give You Diabetes in 12 Parsecs (UPDATED)

Sweet? She’s sweet enough for you, old man. I don’t know who made this geeky confection, but I want to hug them. The attention to detail, the… the chocolate! And oh my god it’s filled with even more chocolate. I wish I could tell you where you could get these, but nobody seems to know.…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 25

I’m So Glad This Chocolate-Themed Phone Isn’t Coming To The US

If you thought that Apple’s attempts to make a wild west-inspired skin for the iPhone was horrific, think again. What we have here is Sharp’s attempt to woo their Japanese market with, uh, a chocolate-themed phone. It features a “three-dimensional melting chocolate block” on the rear, along with a special Android skin that makes it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 25

Now you can eat the solar system with these beautiful planet truffles

It’s the perfect way to get to know the solar system — with your mouth. Japanese chocolatier L’Eclat is offering this collection of planet truffles, painted beautifully and flavored in the ways you always imagined. According to Spoon and Tamago: The chocolaty solar system includes Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (cream lemon), Earth (cacao), Mars (orange…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 23

Cadbury Chocolate Will Literally Melt In Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand

Nestle Chocolate Syrup Fountain Is Classier Than Drinking Straight From the Bottle

This Easter, celebrate with face-hugger-impregnated bunnies

Snails form better memories thanks to chocolate, but do you?

Chocolate Record Woos Your Tastebuds and Destroys Your Needles

Did Microsoft Steal Its New Logo From a Candy Company?

Chocolate could protect men from strokes

Want to prevent senility and keep your blood pressure down? Drink cocoa.

Scientists Invent Healthy Chocolate Made With… Fruit Juice?

Holy Crap It’s Edible Instagram For Chocolate

10 Fun Ways to Euthanize Yourself

Gigantic 18,000 Pound Chocolate Mayan Temple Predicts the End of the World’s Diets

Wage War On Your Diet With a Chocolate Grenade

3D Chocolate Printer Sadly Arrives Too Late To Churn Out Easter Bunnies

Eat chocolate. Lose weight. Yeah, right.

Chocolate Keeps You Slim

Eating chocolate could actually help you lose weight

Chocolate Millennium Falcon Will Give You Diabetes in 12 Parsecs (UPDATED)

I’m So Glad This Chocolate-Themed Phone Isn’t Coming To The US

Now you can eat the solar system with these beautiful planet truffles

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