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3D Printers Create Edible Objects
MrShaggy writes "An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed up to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink. From the article: '"It lets you do complex geometries with food that you could never do by hand," said Jeffrey Lipton, a researcher and graduate student at the lab. "So far, we've printed everything from chocolate, cheese and hummus to scallops, turkey, and celery," Lipton told CBC Radio's Spark in an interview that aired Sunday.'"
Someone go patent some shit about the .. well, something that occurs somewhere among the process of creating small spaceship-like or donkey-dung like 3d printed snacks or something.
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This would be good for deep space travel, where you could just bring along big vats of nutrient goo and print out a different meal every night.
Nerd: feel like a.. chocolate cheeseburger? *snort* Girl: what do you mean Nerd: it's a cheeseburger, made of chocolate *chuckles* Girl: why is that funny? Nerd: it's- Girl: OK, I'm leaving
Somebody invents a 3D food printer and we get **AUDIO**? Isn't that sort of the wrong way to convey this information?
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Can it print using tiger blood? Because that would be pure winning, assuming you were some sort of Vatican assassin warlock.
Sounds perfect for the production of rude food!
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I've been working on this. They beat me to it... :(
Chicken nuggets that look like Chickens.
Something like the food replicators on Star Trek? Punch in what you want, and it prints out the thing itself... :Kewl! :-)
With lots of BBQ sauce: http://www.mndl.hu/works/fractalcow
Now how do I find the T-bones on that thing?
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There was one done quite a bit ago that used sugar as the print material. Wasn't very high resolution, but it worked, and could be eaten. Also, I've heard of Rep-raps using chocolate (and other substances) in the past.
This also doesn't appear very high resolution, so I'm failing to see what about this is first or even particularly novel about it. The only first I see is the specific things they used.
Ah, indeed, I have found a link: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab
You could print up stuff using caviar and Kobe beef and it'd still be cheaper than ink refills.
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This will certainly redefine 'Spam', that's for sure.
Are we going to hear about every single object that can be printed 3D? The same way we heard of every company that had a twitter account in the beginning, or now everytime something happens by interacting on facebook?
... graphics printed on wedding cakes. Or even complex 3D decorations as a business model real soon now.
Have gnu, will travel.
A kitchen conversation in a few years:
"Mom! I'm hungry!"
"You know how to print a double cheeseburger yourself, young man."
When food didn't have the texture of crap.
"Go download me a hoagie from the Internet!"
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Tea. Earl grey. Hot.
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Okay, for this to be a reality, we need to get 3-D printing down to at least the cellular, if not molecular, level. (Would quantum uncertainty effects render this impossible?) But this is a nice idea, cleverer than the idea of a Star Trek style transporter. It would be the 3-D equivalent of faxing a letter. Unlike "beaming", 3-D "faxing" does not imply the destruction and subsequent recreation of the original. A 3-D fax produces copies.
This raises a moral dilemma. If I fax myself, let's say, to Alpha Centauri, who then is the real Me, the spaceman or the one who stayed behind? Do I have the right to kill(switch) my other self (the one who stayed behind)? Would I be guilty of murder? Would it even count as suicide? Or could it simply be a form of hi-tech amputation or surgery, getting rid of an unnecessary body (part)?
And toss an electric sheep on the rotisserie while you're at it.
For drinkables, I would advise a pianocktail.
I wonder what music would produce a hot cup of tea.
... new types of monster munch.
sudo email_me_a_sandwhich
I wonder when a proper 3D copier will be on the market. Apart from any really useful application, putting one's behind on/in a copier then suddenly gets a whole new dimension, especially if the result is edible too... ;)
... to stick in the kitchen. Though, I might be able to replace the food processor with one of these.
to the "dog ate my homework" line.
I swear I saw a story the other night that they printed out a heart. I was only half paying attention and had a few drinks so I just kind of shook it off like I must have missed something. Turns out they didn't just print them out but the thing beats.... eeerry
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/printed-heart-c/
"Organ ‘Printing’ Creates Beating Heart Cells"
"A Missouri professor took several types of chicken heart cells and 3D printed them into large sheets with cell-friendly gel. The cells took over from there, sorting themselves into working order. Then they began beating, just as a heart would."
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Shaped like real cartoon characters!
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sudo make me a sandwich
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Finally, we could grind up bacon and make carrots!
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