Oreo Allows Guests at SXSW to 3D Print Their Own Cookies, Based on Twitter Trends

IMTS

Share this Article

You know that 3D printing is entering the mainstream when you see Oreo allowing people to 3D print their own custom cookies. This is just what they are doing at this year’s SXSW in Austin Texas. The Oreo lounge will be open from March 7th to 11th from noon to 7pm each day.

oreo-1Oreo has an entire area set up at the show, called the Orea Cookie “Trending Vending Machine.” The machine relies on social media trends to determine which color combinations, as well as flavors, are available for printing. Mondelez worked with design firm MAYA Design to create the 3D printing lounge. The lounge features a touchscreen, and is connected to Twitter.com, via the hashtag #eatthetweet. After a person selects the cookie they want, with the help of Twitter, the 3D printer will build the cookie in under two minutes. Attendees are given 12 flavors and colors of cream filling to choose from.

Janda Lukin, senior director for Oreo at Mondelez International, said: “Oreo Trending Vending is another example of our continued commitment to providing consumers with unique experiences and delicious ways to engage with Oreo on and offline. We’re excited to see how social trends and our cookies intersect in the real world at SXSW Interactive.”

Oreo has been known for their clever social media marketing strategies. In this case they are combining the crazy media attention that 3D printing has been receiving lately orea-featwith the growing popularity of Twitter, to become a trend on social media themselves.  The #eatthetweet hashtag has been trending on Twitter tracking sites for the last 24 hours.

“Mondelez International continues to push the boundaries of digital creativity by using technologies like Twitter to bridge real-world events with online conversations,” said Ross Hoffman, director of US brand strategy at Twitter. “Giving SXSW attendees the ability to transform and customize something as iconic as an Oreo cookie, simply by tweeting, is very exciting.”

There are two “Trending Vending Machines” within Oreo’s lounge, and the last we heard they were one of the more popular areas for SXSW attendees to be.  Discuss the 3D printed Oreo promotion at 3dprintboard.com

Share this Article


Recent News

Will There Be a Desktop Manufacturing Revolution outside of 3D Printing?

Know Your Würth: CEO AJ Strandquist on How Würth Additive Can Change 3D Printing



Categories

3D Design

3D Printed Art

3D Printed Food

3D Printed Guns


You May Also Like

Featured

Pressing Refresh: What CEO Brad Kreger and Velo3D Have Learned About Running a 3D Printing Company

To whatever extent a business is successful thanks to specialization, businesses will nonetheless always be holistic entities. A company isn’t a bunch of compartments that all happen to share the...

Würth Additive Launches Digital Inventory Services Platform Driven by 3D Printing

Last week, at the Additive Manufacturing Users’ Group (AMUG) Conference in Chicago (March 10-14), Würth Additive Group (WAG) launched its new inventory management platform, Digital Inventory Services (DIS). WAG is...

Featured

Hypersonic Heats Up: CEO Joe Laurienti on the Success of Ursa Major’s 3D Printed Engine

“It’s only been about 24 hours now, so I’m still digesting it,” Joe Laurienti said. But even via Zoom, it was easy to notice that the CEO was satisfied. The...

Ricoh to Open 3D Printing Center of Excellence at North Carolina State University

Japanese 2D-to-3D printing firm Ricoh is further extending its activities in the additive manufacturing (AM) sector, this time partnering with North Carolina State University to establish a Center of Excellence....