MIT's Food Printer

Tommy writes:

Have you heard about the MIT project called Cornucopia? No? Well here is a description:

* Cornucopia's cooking process starts with an array of food canisters, which refrigerate and store a user's favorite ingredients. These are piped into a mixer and extruder head that can accurately deposit elaborate combinations of food.

Yep, that's right, Cornucopia is a food printer! And as you can see...not just pretty pictures of food or pictures ON food....printed food. Can Star Trek's synthesizer be far behind?

You know, I got to say one thing though... "done that"... looking at how this is done, yep, anyone of us that has had a can of Cheese Whiz, a cracker, pepperoni and Jalapenos has spent a night "printing" up some good eats.

Gizmodo has the background story.