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The Trib reports today on the Museum of Science and Industry’s new exhibit, Fast Forward . . . Inventing the Future, which highlights brand-new inventions. One of the featured inventors is Homaro Cantu of Moto, who’s already known for his edible paper. According to Fast Company‘s 2006 profile of Cantu, he uses a “food replicator,” which is basically a “tricked-out printer,” to make paper in flavors like cheesecake or mojito. He now wants to take the printer to a new dimension, literally. Cantu believes it’s possible to create a machine that can make any food–a bacon cheeseburger, for example–using three-dimensional printers and plant fiber and deliver it through a telephone transmission (or something like that–the article doesn’t go into a lot of detail on just how it would work).
His larger dreams include machines that could, by following recipes on a molecular level, replicate any food that exists, using three-dimensional printers and plant fiber to deliver a tasty bacon cheeseburger over a telephone transmission.
