3D pasta and 4 other things from the future
1. Google experiments with 3D printed pasta
It’s official. Not a week goes by now that I don’t see something new and amazing related to 3D printing. Just recently, we heard about a giant 3D printer that can produce a custom house in 20 hours. And about how the fact that future of retail will be unrecognizable because we’ll likely be able to print out all sorts of goods at home. This week, I’ve learned that now you can order 3D printed pasta at Google’s cafeterias. Employees at the tech giant’s Mountain View headquarters can now try out 3D printed food courtesy of Exhibition Chef Bernard Faucher, who prints out edible products using ingredients like pasta dough and vegetables. In this “Star Trek” future where food is printed on demand, will nourishment come in the form of “food inks,” and will we be buying them from unlikely sources such as Google and HP?
Read the full story here: http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/08/28/5-things-future