TCHO: iPhone Controlled Artisan Chocolate Factory!
Artisan chocolate meets technology, Apple style.
Video: TCHO iPhone Controlled Chocolate Factory
This must be Apple fans’ Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory: Remote chocolate lab enterprise operation? There’s an app for that.
How does former NASA software entrepreneur improve artisan chocolate? By using the “best technology available.” In this case, no Oompa-Loompas, but utilizing the Apple iPhone.
TCHO stands for technology + chocolate. It is founded by former NASA software entrepreneur Timothy Childs. Its CEO, Louis Rossetto, is cofounder of Wired magazine. The company, the only bean-to-bar chocolate factory left in San Francisco, brings their artisan chocolate “from the pod to the palate.”
Irony: A cocoa bean business, controlled by with an iOS App built with Apple Cocoa. TCHO uses Apple iPhone and a custom app as virtual window to remote operate their chocolate enterprise.
Video: TCHO Artisan Chocolate
More about their attention in the complete process of artisan chocolate production at their San Francisco Bay factory, from beans, to creation, to brand and product design:
Oh, and they are Mac fans:
Favorite iPhone Apps, TCHO Chocolate Factory
TCHO Favorite iPhone Apps:
- Units (unit conversion) [App Store]
- Omnifocus (productivity, task manager) [App Store]
- Keynote Remote (presentation) [App Store]
- Bloom (music) [App Store]
- Zagat (dining) [App Store]
- Urbanspoon (dining) [App Store]
- Flight Tracker [App Store]
P.S. you can order their chocolate online from TCHO.com
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via cultofmac
Wow, two of my favorite things together, chocolate and the iPhone has got to equal just one thing………. yummy!
All they need is an iPhone controlled slingshot that fires the chocolate for delivery. Each package would be build in With parachute of course.