Welcome to the future: 3-D printable pizza
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future food for the masses
or some really rich really high pot head
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Welcome to the future: 3-D printable pizza
A Texas company has won a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop technology that can print food from powder.
The last time we checked in on 3-D printing, it was being used to make print-at-home handguns. Now the hot technology is being adapted for a more benign purpose: making pizza.
NASA has awarded a $125,000 grant to a Texas company to build a food synthesizer that can mix food and print it out in layers using a 3-D printer. One of the easiest foods to print this way is pizza, because it can be created and cooked in layers.
The potential for this technology is far-reaching. NASA is interested because it could be a way to feed astronauts who spend decades in space. But the company behind the technology, Systems & Materials Research Corp., has more ambitious ideas. If this works, an engineer at the company told Quartz, every kitchen might have a 3-D printer creating meals from a base of powders.
Here's how it works: The printer takes its ingredients from attached canisters of powdered food and oils. It combines those ingredients in a mixing chamber and uses the 3-D printer to shape the food.
With a pizza, the dough is mixed from powders and printed as the first layer. It gets cooked as it is printed, according to Quartz. Then a layer of tomato sauce is mixed and added. And so on.
We're not talking gourmet food here. But as the world's population grows and food becomes scarcer, perhaps a plan to mix powders into something edible isn't so crazy.
"I think, and many economists think, that current food systems can't supply 12 billion people sufficiently," the engineer behind the technology told Quartz. "So we eventually have to change our perception of what we see as food."
or some really rich really high pot head
http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post ... 1049357c75
Welcome to the future: 3-D printable pizza
A Texas company has won a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop technology that can print food from powder.
The last time we checked in on 3-D printing, it was being used to make print-at-home handguns. Now the hot technology is being adapted for a more benign purpose: making pizza.
NASA has awarded a $125,000 grant to a Texas company to build a food synthesizer that can mix food and print it out in layers using a 3-D printer. One of the easiest foods to print this way is pizza, because it can be created and cooked in layers.
The potential for this technology is far-reaching. NASA is interested because it could be a way to feed astronauts who spend decades in space. But the company behind the technology, Systems & Materials Research Corp., has more ambitious ideas. If this works, an engineer at the company told Quartz, every kitchen might have a 3-D printer creating meals from a base of powders.
Here's how it works: The printer takes its ingredients from attached canisters of powdered food and oils. It combines those ingredients in a mixing chamber and uses the 3-D printer to shape the food.
With a pizza, the dough is mixed from powders and printed as the first layer. It gets cooked as it is printed, according to Quartz. Then a layer of tomato sauce is mixed and added. And so on.
We're not talking gourmet food here. But as the world's population grows and food becomes scarcer, perhaps a plan to mix powders into something edible isn't so crazy.
"I think, and many economists think, that current food systems can't supply 12 billion people sufficiently," the engineer behind the technology told Quartz. "So we eventually have to change our perception of what we see as food."
fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
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Your on the clock.
or do you hang it on your wall?
To any one here that has ever tried NASA pizza, you know like I know, the package it comes it is more edible.
It tastes like colored cardboard. This future looks not very tasty.
I think Pizza Hut spent like 20 million to have a pizza delivered to the International Space Station once.
Given the ridiculous & shameful amount of wasted food all over (think buffet brunches, cruises, restaurants serving huge portions, craft service tables, "celebrity food demands", etc. as a start)...cut out such disregard for what others hold dear (and key to their survival) and a whole lot more people could be fed.
it is sad
and it's getting worse
as climate change heats up, farms will produce less and less
and no
$125K doesn't seem like nearly enough
"what a long, strange trip it's been"