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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I've been doing this for decades with my old dot matrix printer. The ink tastes like crap though.
Just slurp the ink
So the ink bypasses all the other processes? How? there's an Ink Fairy? It's delivered via plumbing?
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?
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.... More
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
Finally... I've been waiting for this all my life. Never liked the idea of growing plants in order to eat them.
Any StarTrek fan would see that the technology is original, but the idea is not....
That's gotta be all kinds of unhealthy.. i dont want to eat paper with my fake nasty food anyways.
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