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PhysOrg runs a story on the implications of 3D printers for the food industry.
The use of 3D printers has the potential to revolutionize the way food is manufactured within the next 10 to 20 years, impacting everything from how military personnel get food on the battlefield to how long it takes to get a meal from the computer to your table..
The article attributes the following to "Hod Lipson, Ph.D., a professor of engineering at Columbia University and a co-author of the book Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing"
3D printing is a good fit for the food industry because it allows manufacturers to bring complexity and variety to consumers at a low cost. Traditional manufacturing is built on mass production of the same item, but with a 3D printer, it takes as much time and money to produce a complex, customized product that appeals to one person as it does to make a simple, routine product that would be appealing to a large group. ... Users could choose from a large online database of recipes, put a cartridge with the ingredients into their 3D printer at home, and it would create the dish just for that person. The user could customize it to include extra nutrients or replace one ingredient with another.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:22PM
Basically you plug in your food printer, attach your green-corn-paste-tube, your cyan-corn-paste-tube, and of course the magenta-corn-paste-tube. And then to alter texture you have your BK-hardening-soy-paste and clear-hardening-soy-paste.
I foresee the food printer being fairly cheap, but the tubes will be overpriced by 10000% to offset the cost. And of course they will contain DRM so only legitimate tubes can be used due to "safety" concerns.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday July 14 2015, @09:08PM
I'll just leave this here [schlockmercenary.com] and let it speak for itself.