Design and Print Your Own 3-D Chocolate Objects

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Using new digital technology the printer allows you to create your own designs on a computer and reproduce them physically in three dimensional form in chocolate.

3-D printing is a technology where a three dimensional object is created by building up successive layers of material. The technology is already used in industry to produce plastic and metal products but this is the first time the principles have been applied to chocolate.

Yummy. I wonder how much this technology will cost? I think im going to make some chocolate airplanes...or a beer bottle....maybe a chocolate this I would love to eat a chocolate LoL face. Imagine drinking from a chocolate bottle!

I wonder what the next thing to be 3-D printed will be?

Drinking out of a chocolate bottle?
Well, TWA used to serve cordials in tiny chocolate cups in first class. Way back when traveling by air was a luxury, the passenger was king, the stewardesses were lovely and friendly.
Now TWA's gone (no more Harvey Wallbangers!) and we're just cattle being poked and prodded and stuffed into ever-shrinking seat spacings.

Originally posted by buni11687
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I wonder what the next thing to be 3-D printed will be?

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Check with the porn industry. I am sure they can come up with something. On the serious side, this technology was developed in 1994/95 in New Hampshire by a company called SDI, if I am not mistaken (since I saw it working there). At the time they could use any fast reactive liquid to generate 3D objects.

Have you heard about the electropolymer muscles developed by a NASA subsidiary, I've got the formula around here somewhere. I tried that one out (because the porn industry was looking for a novel way to have sex over the internet) and built a couple of electrically activated polymer units to see if I could make proportionally contracting errrr, donuts? Yeah, that's it, donuts, LOL.

There are some really neat technologies out there, you just have to use your imagination when it comes to applications ;-)

Cheers - Dave