By: Anthony Jamison

2012 is the year of the gadgets: iPad HD, Sony’s Google TV, and Sprinkles’ cupcake ATM machine?

Yes, you read that correctly, a cupcake ATM machine.

A friend of mine literally jumped up and down when I told her about it. Sources at the Georgetown Sprinkles say there might be round-the-clock cupcake vending in the  D.C.-area this summer.

“Does it take cards only? Is there a convenience fee?” asked Ben Hagos, 22-year-old, mass communcation major, and senior at George Mason, while laughing. “Damn now I have a reason  to go to Georgetown. Awesome!”

In Beverly Hills, cupcake addicts can get their sugar fix 24-hours a day via a vending machine outside the flagship store.

“Really, people want cupcakes that seriously?” asked Chris Johnson, a 31-year-old, 2005 alumi of George Mason, and editorial assistant at the National Association of Counties.

Yes. There is always a line at Georgetown Cupcake — and cupcake shops are popping up all over the District.

“Is it like the crane game — with the claw —  because I want to play,” stated Ricky Lowy, 24, a George Mason senior majoring in mass communication.

The way the cupcake machine works is about 600 cupcakes will be baked daily, and boxed individually. It’s touch screen (like everything now these days) and you can flip through it to choose a cupcake . And voila — it appears.

So all of you cupcake fanatics, stay tuned this summer because you will be in for a real treat!