The Ninja Swirl by Creami can make both hard and soft serve ice cream, plus any number of other frozen treats.

Ninja just announced a new ice cream maker that does something its existing Creami model can’t: make soft serve. The Ninja Swirl packs the option to create both regular scooped ice cream and softer swirls, and, like the original Creami, it’s versatile enough to create frozen yogurt and other variants too.

As mentioned, the Ninja Creami Swirl is currently only available in the US, leaving ice cream lovers in other countries looking sadly at their empty waffle cones. The soft-serve machine is likely to launch elsewhere later in the year, but if you can't wait that long then don't worry, there are other options.

Ninja debuted its latest and greatest creation: the Swirl. The next generation of Ninja Creami still lets you customize flavors and ingredients, but it now churns out both classic scooped and soft-serve treats.