32 flavors and then some RFID chips

Chocolate chip ice cream is a nice enough, but it’s no RFID chip – that delectable morsel that tells fans of Izzy’s Ice Cream that their favorite flavor is in.

Izzy’s hired us to build a site that updates every three minutes based on interchangeable buckets of ice cream so flavor watchers can see exactly which 32 varieties are available, right then and there. RFID chips attached to nameplates of each bucket of each flavor (Izzy’s has more than 200 and counting) direct site content as flavors rotate in and out, and customers know what’s what (and when) via Facebook and Twitter.

Find your flavor in a timely manner at http://flavorup.izzysicecream.com/flavor-grid, and read all about it at MinnoV8 and St. Paul Pioneer Press (yeah, they scooped us on this story – pun well intended).

How do we know Izzy’s admires our work as much as we admire theirs? Because the ice cream man was generous to Nerdery staff when we debuted this project at last Friday’s BottleCap Talk.