Is this the ice cream van of the future?

Barclaycard has created a contactless payment ice cream van that enables customers to pay for and pour their own ice cream in less than a minute.

The payment giant has converted a traditional ice cream van into one that supports “touch and go” payments, where users select the ice cream they want from a touchscreen, tapping to pay on the contactless point and then pouring the ice cream themselves.

Called Contactless Cones, Barclaycard has created the van to mark the upcoming 10-year anniversary of contactless payments being available in the UK, which falls in September.