General / Off-Topic Science fiction once again becomes science fact.

[kofeyh]

I remember watching the "replicator" on the Enterprise being used in Star-Trek:TNG and thinking it was the most amazing thing.

I have a 3d printer; I've had it for about 6 months. I can't make 'Tea, Earl-Grey, Hot', but I can fabricate just about anything else. They are becoming so common now, that pretty much every major department store has at least one model available.

This still blows my mind. Every time I use it.

 

[fennster]

Ladies and gentlemen...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/06/tech/innovation/foodini-machine-print-food/

In another instance of a science fiction concept arriving in real life, the technology to make food out of a 3d printer from ingredient cartridges--"food cartridges" if you will--has arrived.

I'm not the least bit surprised; when I read the description of food cartridges in ED I knew it wasn't far off. I just wonder why there isn't a 'food printers' commodity in ED?

Yeah, i'll pass thank you, here's your burger Interesting though.

 

[lysan]

just give me this.

[video=youtube;jyMYKWIAR5s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyMYKWIAR5s[/video]

 

[metatheurgist]

I just wonder why there isn't a 'food printers' commodity in ED?

Domestic Appliance.

 

[GraXXoR]

Domestic Appliance.

I had just assumed Donestic Appliances were robotic wives. ;-)

 

[who?]

I remember watching the "replicator" on the Enterprise being used in Star-Trek:TNG and thinking it was the most amazing thing.

I have a 3d printer; I've had it for about 6 months. I can't make 'Tea, Earl-Grey, Hot', but I can fabricate just about anything else. They are becoming so common now, that pretty much every major department store has at least one model available.

This still blows my mind. Every time I use it.

I keep thinking I should buy one, and how would revolutionise my life. But then again, I can't replicate imagination!

p.s. "at least one model"? Surely one 3D printer is all you'd ever need!

 

[Brian of Ardagh]

I remember watching the "replicator" on the Enterprise being used in Star-Trek:TNG and thinking it was the most amazing thing.

I have a 3d printer; I've had it for about 6 months. I can't make 'Tea, Earl-Grey, Hot', but I can fabricate just about anything else. They are becoming so common now, that pretty much every major department store has at least one model available.

This still blows my mind. Every time I use it.

In the original Star Trek, early episodes, food was made from some kind of all purpose food substance. Sure, you'd get what you ordered with the little data card but it was really just made to look like what you wanted. In reality it was recycled biomatter.

In one episode Kirk approved of the Thanksgiving "turkey" blob!

 

[Frank]

Yeah, i'll pass thank you, here's your burger Interesting though.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/da...dini-mini-burger-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg

...but still more appetising than MacDonald Burgers.

 

[glynie]

So it's food, rammed into a little box, and then spat out onto a plate. So you're still buying and loading it with the food...but going through the additional effort of squashing it into a box. I bet most of it tastes horrible...just go shopping.

 

[bootsam]

Fresh food will never be replaced. However the ability to 'print' my own Tunnocks Caramel Wafer at will intrigues me.

 

[Rogue Trader]

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[Surfinjo]

So, basically, take some goo, add colouring, flavouring, texture enhancers and squeeze it onto a dish.

https://www.naturalmachines.com/

https://www.facebook.com/natural.machines.foodini/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35631265

And I thought we'd reached the limit with oven chips.

Enjoy everyone.

 

[FuzzySpider]

You can 3D print cells and viruses now.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/16/andrew-hessel-autodesk
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n8/full/nbt.2958.html
http://lifesciences.ieee.org/articl...ampling-of-progress-in-biological-3d-printing
https://backchannel.com/where-s-my-bioprinted-kidney-already-25d8c2a5d676#.h9r0bme7q

Excellent! Now all I need is the genome of a deadly virus to create world wide havoc! Oh here's one.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/5314
https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgT...&hgsid=482070607_UnCGiCytugAIgKwEUfBPia949hyF

I am a skeptic. I am skeptical that humans are really ready to have the kind of technology they are capable of creating. When this sort of science-magic is invented someone seems to find ways to do terrible things with them. (Splitting atom - Hiroshima).

 

[Surfinjo]

I'll believe this and almost anything, when I see it.

There was a lot of nonsense about 3D printers, how everyone would be making guns, smuggling them onto airplanes and numerous other nefarious devices.

 

[Mephane]

Yeah, i'll pass thank you, here's your burger Interesting though.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/da...dini-mini-burger-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg

This is no different than the burgers you can buy, they're also pressed into shape from a paste, basically.

 

[fennster]

This is no different than the burgers you can buy, they're also pressed into shape from a paste, basically.

Yeah, I would never buy manufactured burgers either, I'd make my own. Which also are formed 'paste', but they certainly aren't of a consistency that could be piped out of a tube

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This is one of the coolest 3d printed structures if seen, the whole thing is printed fully constructed, apart from the propeller which needs attaching.

[video=youtube;K5eMKfWVkXQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5eMKfWVkXQ[/video]

 

[Mysturji]

Ladies and gentlemen...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/06/tech/innovation/foodini-machine-print-food/

In another instance of a science fiction concept arriving in real life, the technology to make food out of a 3d printer from ingredient cartridges--"food cartridges" if you will--has arrived.

I'm not the least bit surprised; when I read the description of food cartridges in ED I knew it wasn't far off. I just wonder why there isn't a 'food printers' commodity in ED?

Print me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Disgusting ! We do not stop the "progress"