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Gallagher girl
Oct 03 2012 at 7:31 PM
iI disagree i totaly hate it why would we want to eat paper the human race will refuse it anyways. -_-
Guest
Oct 27 2012 at 6:50 PM
You aren't eating paper when you eat something from this "printer"...
It would be taking in various chemical combinations that would combine to make something similar/identical to the molecular/chemical makeup of a cake/pie.
You would be in essence eating the same thing as a cake, it would just be made of the broken down components as opposed to semi-broken down components.
There are 3D printers out there now that can make plastic/metal devices... why not have something that makes food?
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that would go into this I can only assume from the article would be things like protein, sugars, fats, and various nutrients.)
Also: Do you really think humanity would say no to making cake at home versus running out to buy the cake?
Enter your name
Jul 03 2012 at 2:30 PM
I immediately thought of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.....
Enter your name
Jun 20 2012 at 3:45 AM
the "ink" didnt come from nowhere
the food was still farmed, and processed to hell
this isnt eco friendly, modified foods are NEVER eco friendly.
anonymous
Jun 04 2012 at 11:34 AM
I don't get this. What's it printing the food on? Are we going to be like the Jetsons or living in the Douglas Adams universe? Just paint my food on my plate, thanks. No need to tell the machine what I want, it can just pick it out of my head. Now where's my lightsaber-butterknife?
matthew06040
May 27 2012 at 6:15 PM
while this may become a reality, like the lab grown meat, it wont become socially acceptable, and normal people will prefer the organic stuff. you can see that happening in the world right now, with all the gmo products out there and the rise of the organic revolution...this, while cool looking, seems like a step backwards for society as opposed to a step forward.
thrisa
Sep 12 2012 at 9:17 AM
I completely agree!! The conventional and GMO growers are panicking as sales for organic foods continue to increase and more and more people are switching out highly processed crap and poisoned foods for real food. It's an exciting time to be alive!!!
elimgarak01
Mar 06 2012 at 8:37 PM
I've been doing this for decades with my old dot matrix printer. The ink tastes like crap though.
Roger Lord Zeck
Jan 29 2012 at 12:11 AM
So the ink bypasses all the other processes? How? there's an Ink Fairy? It's delivered via plumbing?
Mika
Nov 30 2011 at 1:19 PM
People seem to be forgetting that farming, fertilizing, transporting, refrigerating, packaging, fabricating, cooking, and serving are people's JOBS. Without the need for those things, just how many millions of people would be out of a job?
Guest
Mar 20 2012 at 9:14 AM
except in a non-convoluted world, jobs are performed because they fulfill a need - people produce what is needed to survive and thrive. Once technology progresses far enough to alleviate mankind of tedium and jobs associated with it, it is entirely a societal construct to have any kind of adverse repercussions for some of mankind's greatest achievements.
(robotics replacing factory workers, emailing clients replacing mail men, computers replacing computers (people who compute))
Alas, the world is
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a convoluted place, and as such there will always be people left to fend for themselves when their essentially meaningless duties are performed more efficiently and cheaper by technology. The winners will be the rich corporate leaders who will cash in and pocket the profits of laying off the laymen. Add in some sickening finance, and you have an economic system perpetuated by the people profiting from it, even at the expense of the well-fare of entire nations.
Where once an economic system was developed to make commerce and barter easier, it has now transformed into its own entity, where "money" is something in and of itself (rather than representing your productivity, by extension), and even money (and worse yet; debt) can be bought for money.
So instead of blaming new technology for stealing jobs, a more productive and reasonable approach to the situation would be to try to have government and unions force the ones who stand to profit on laying off human workers in favor of machines to compensate (or re-educate and employ as something else) those who would stand without jobs due to the advances of mankind.
solomack
Aug 05 2011 at 2:15 PM
what happen to invention number 17 lol we want invention 17 hell no we wont go...we want invention 17 ..hell no we wont goooo lol crazy people why they put number 17 them i miss invention 17 lol
Alex
Jul 29 2011 at 1:22 PM
Finally... I've been waiting for this all my life. Never liked the idea of growing plants in order to eat them.
Anon
May 10 2011 at 4:41 PM
Any StarTrek fan would see that the technology is original, but the idea is not....
3-D food printer
Scientists at Cornell University are developing a commecial 3-D food printer known as a “FabApp” that could one day allow you to print your meals off the Internet using raw-food “ink.” The printer is limited to ingredients that can be extracted from a syringe, but researchers say they’ve had success creating chocolate, cake and cookies.
Pretty soon the FabApp may become as common as the microwave, a development that would have huge environmental benefits. Chef Homaro Cantu told the BBC, “You can imagine a 3-D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilizing, transporting, refrigerating, packaging, fabricating, cooking, serving and the need for all of the materials in these processes like cars, trucks, pans, coolers, etc."
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