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Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy is a project by two grad students working in MIT's Fluid Interfaces Group. The goal: a consumer-friendly machine that prints food. (Spork not included...)
Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory that brings the versatility of the digital world to the realm of cooking. In essence, it is a three dimensional printer for food, which works by storing, precisely mixing, depositing and cooking layers of ingredients.
Cornucopia's cooking process starts with an array of food canisters, which refrigerate and store a user's favorite ingredients. These are piped into a mixer and extruder head that can accurately deposit elaborate combinations of food. While the deposition takes place, the food is heated or cooled by Cornucopia's chamber or the heating and cooling tubes located on the printing head. This fabrication process not only allows for the creation of flavors and textures that would be completely unimaginable through other cooking techniques, but it also allows the user to have ultimate control over the origin, quality, nutritional value and taste of every meal.
[via the Shapeways blog]
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This is the star-trek replicator alpha?
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So did they try to make it look like it only make martinis?
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It's a FLDSMDFR!!!
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LOL, I was going to say the same thing. I've watched that movie three times since my daughter got her hands on it. :D
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Mmmmm, soylent green.
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This looks much more polished than my effort (http://www.cubespawn.com) mine is paycheck funded at present ;-) Eventually, I hope mine will print one food though: Meat! the ethical steak printer Beef (or Chicken) cells printed like this: http://bit.ly/5MQmX6 "Its what's printing for dinner"
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So you want to print off Thanksgiving dinner. You start with what, raw turkey slurry? Celery and mushroom slurry? Wheat slurry in place of bread cubes?
Members of the Slow Food movement around the planet will be stroking out and falling face first into their coq au vin over this one.
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soon another day will down
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