News Sci-Fi Inkjet Printers

It seems that there's nothing that an inkjet printer can't print these days, as long as you can afford to replace those ever expiring cartridges. Food, skin, displays - PCWorld names some of the odd things the humble tech is being used for:

If you are what you eat, at Moto restaurant in Chicago, you are edible origami. The Canon i560 inkjet printer employed there doesn't just print the menus; it prints menus you can eat.

Homaru Cantu, the executive chef, prints menus and many other items onto edible starch-based paper. Instead of using the typical CMYK inks--cyan, magenta, yellow, and black--Cantu has filled the cartridges with edible solutions. Think SSSB: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty, the four attributes our tongues detect.

Cantu uses combinations of these four liquids on the edible paper to create dishes unlikely to be found anywhere else, such as "baked map of Alaska" and a type of maki sushi that he wraps in flavored paper bearing images of sushi, instead of seaweed.

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[Homer]Ummmm - CMYK.... *Drool*[/Homer]

 

Wierd ... but interesting ... Not sure I would want to eat anything that comes out of a printer (however well maintained it may be).

 

talk about having biodegradable food containers..... Um yes I'll take the Big Mac with the Chicken McNugget container, and a large Fry with the onion ring container. That'd be craaaazzyy!!!!!!

-Fiz

 

That's just strange.

I think my title says it all - weird.....

 

So the future is here? I must say I am a little dissopointed, I thought we would have interstella travel and hover-cars!

 

Yeah and instead we've been fobbed off with edible food containers. ah well