From the terrifying geniuses at the MIT Media Lab, Cornucopia is a conceptual design for a machine that would “print” food. Wait, stop. Before you go fetching your sledgehammers and start smashing stocking frames, let us consider the idea in more detail. This would be a kind of “personal food factory” that stores your raw food materials in refrigerated cannisters. These are then piped into a mixer where an extruder head creates digitally determined combinations of food elements while being heated or cooled by mechanical printer ‘heads’ through a remote fabrication process accurate to the … you know what, go fetch that sledgehammer.
(On the other hand, they do have digital chocolate. And you can’t go wrong with chocolate.)
