yardman
Afro-pessimist
The guys at Open Meals want to do for food what Apple did for digital music: make it easy to download — or in this case "teleport" — food from anywhere in the world.
Food Base is basically the iTunes of 3D printable food.
To achieve this, they've created two key components. The first is a patent-pending "Food Base" digital food platform that stores precise measurements (flavor, shape, color, nutrients, and texture) of different kinds of foods.
Company reps told me this database is the "foundation for making authentic food reproduction" possible. Like iTunes, they want Food Base to be a place for people to search, download, and upload food data.
The second component to "teleporting" food is the Pixel Food Printer, a custom-built robotic arm that prints out tiny little pixel cubes made from a type of edible gel. Each pixel is injected with different flavors, color, nutrients, etc. and combined together into the finished pixelated-looking food.
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