here's a really cool story
nasa
is funding i three d food printer
and it's gonna start by printing pizza
nasa sponding research into this and um... there's a mechanical engineered
named on john
it appears as lessen his contractor i don't know if it just looks like the
american word contractor web but on john contractor
and he's received a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollar grant from
the agency to build a prototype three-d_ printer with the aim of automating food
creation this is like a system i've not seen it but some people told me this is
like a system in star trek it reminds me of the matter compiler
from the niels stevenson book the diamond h which i'm sure you breathless
you have in right now
it's a very good book
any case that's what this reminds me of where you basically just take the
component parts of uvm of food right
and you combine it into things that are similar to the types of food exist for
humans and we already are are in development of the the technology to
print chocolate here's a video
of a printer printing chocolate onto it appears to be a cookie or cracker of
some kind this is pretty cool
it's about to start i saw ur
and there it goes
moving slowly over the cracker
now i have to admit
who is really no difference visit visually here
printing the chocolate and just
dispensing ennada
what would be a this video is actually has compelling is that they would be but
that i've looked into this and and basically
you're going to need to have a little cartridges bright
powdered
uh...
pattern
material packard basically food components in part is that
and they they stay fresh for like thirty years
uh...
and the printer were used those components to make different fruits so
you need to have the components to make whatever that the final product is going
to be
so if you wanna make chocolate you have to have those components available right
in this particular case the way it would work is
you first print a layer of dough from the the components are talking about
it's heated as it's printed big and it basically coat does it spread then you
mixed tomato powder with water and oil to prince tomato sauce
and then there's going to be the topping will be with being described as a
nondescript protein layer sounds delicious while i hear that nondescript
protein layers have hints of rosemary is naturally just a coincidence that is
uh... sounds delicious hard to believe that uh... uh... can attract the plate
to that'd pretty cool
maybe have a one yeah
in any case i'm very very interested in this and then when you think about the
technologies that now we're looking at i mean we we're gonna talk on the bonus
show about lame regeneration we're talking about printing foo
going to be an interesting few years as an