Addivite Manufacturing Industry and the idea that is always linked with automotive and aerospace engineering doens’t make sense anymore. Open Meals, presented in The SXSW 2018 event, presented his innovation project in Japan. Their core members are dentsu, Yamagata University, Denso and Tohokushinsha, and they wish transform the way people see food. One of the concepts that support his project is the teleportation– wherever it is.
To make this a possible goal, Open Meals created two key components:
- The patent-pending “Food Base” digital food platform that stores precise measurements (flavor, shape, color, nutrients, and texture) of different kinds of foods. As Apple’s iTunes, Open Meals want to create a Food Database to be a place for people to search, download, and upload food data. The company argues that,
“our database is the foundation for making authentic food reproduction possible”.
2-The second component to “teleporting” food is the Pixel Food Printer, a custom-built robotic arm that prints out tiny little pixel cubes made from a type of edible gel. Each cell is injected with different flavors, color, nutrients and combined together into the finished pixelated-looking food.
The pixel blocks reduction makes food looks more realistic when pieced together. However, Open Meals cannot precise when they’ll be able to make that happen.
Pixel Food Printer could be useful in several ways. For instance, we could teleport different dishes from Earth to astronauts that are in space, or a cooking show chef could send meals to viewers’ homes. Like most tech at SXSW, the Pixel Food Printer is still a prototype concept, so there’s no 3D Pixel Food Printers for sale yet. Instead of the concept’s and prototyping good acceptance, there are still many barriers to cross. A lot of people looks to 3D printed food as an industry trick, but it’s already shown itself to be a potential answer to a lot of problems like gluten allergies and difficulty swallowing.
If Open Meals makes the access possible to a variety of foods for people who can’t otherwise access them, it could do a world of good in improving nutrition for people wherever it is.
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https://mashable.com/2018/03/11/3d-printed-8-bit-sushi-sxsw/#kHuAzu.qqgqE Mashable, by Raymond Wong, visited on 15th March, 2018.
https://www.3dprint.com/206700/3d-printed-pixelated-sushi/, by Clare Scott/3DPrint, visited on 15th march 2018.Video credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRiDRLD4ng , visited on 15th March, 2018.
https://mashable.com/2018/03/11/3d-printed-8-bit-sushi-sxsw/#kHuAzu.qqgqE, by Phillip Tracy, visited on 15th March 2018.Image credits:
Raymond Wong/Mashable, first and second article photo, https://mashable.com/2018/03/11/3d-printed-8-bit-sushi-sxsw/#kHuAzu.qqgq, visited on 15th March 2018.
Erin Carson/CNET, article presentation photo, https://www.cnet.com/news/3d-printed-sushi-open-meals-looks-an-8-bit-meal/, visited on 15th March 2018.
Brian Wong/Mashable, Claire Scott/3DPrint, third and fourth article photos https://www.3dprint.com/206700/3d-printed-pixelated-sushi/, visited on 15th March 2018.
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