Why would anyone need a motorized ice cream cone? The inventor, Rick Hartman, explains: ...ice cream cone technology has basically been stagnant for the last 200 years. They work okay... but there's all that finger spinning and the neck movements and the tongue stress from licking your ice cream. So clearly there was a need ( and the U.S. Patent Office agreed) for a new and improved ergonomic ice cream cone! Clearly people are getting lazier every day.