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Come On Over and I’ll Print A Lasagna or Pizza For Dinner!

January 14, 2010

in Innovate,Link of the day,The trend is my friend

I spent far to much of my youth riding my snowboard, so getting me into MIT would probably involve both bribes and plastic surgery. But if I had, the MIT Media Lab is for sure the place to be if you wanna tap into the future for real.

Hidden in room 320 you’ll find Pattie Maes and her Fluid Interfaces Research Group. This is a part of MIT where the goal is to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. Pattie and her students has already brought us tons of cool stuff like the wearable computer interface and the Stiftables (that I’ve written about before).

Well, this morning when I browsed through the Shapeways blog I feasted my eyes onto the Fluid Groups latest vision for the future – a 3D food printer called Cornucopia. You heard me right. The 3D food printer.

This little beauty, yet to be seen in real life, will let you print your food. Get it? Cornucopia’s cooking process starts with an array of food canisters, which refrigerate and store a user’s favorite ingredients. [click to continue…]

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Get your kid high on Scratch

April 14, 2009

in Family,Link of the day,Software

My parents always thought I spend to much time in front of my computer. Personally I’m afraid my kids won’t spend enough time there.

If there’s anything I’m sure of its the fact that kids growing up with a sound relation to computers will create a strong platform for the rest of their life.

This is why I love Scratch. Scratch is a programming language suitable for kids that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

So, if you’ve got kids – move them from slaying other people in war games to building applications in Scratch.

Thanks Rory for the Tweet-tip

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Toys that makes me go wow

February 22, 2009

in Innovate,Just another day,The trend is my friend,Video

When I was a young boy my passion among other things were airplanes. Big ones, small ones, fast ones & slow ones. It didn’t really matter as long as they contained some kind of innovation. Sadly most of my favorite ones were military jets. As with many other fields the army were heading the pack in terms of innovations due to the cold war. Today this is not really the case. Of course the military innovates, but the time for wow innovations seems to be over and in the field of military jets it’s the F16, the Apache and the F117 that rule, the same ones I was keeping track of when I was 15 years old.

When it comes to gadgets my focus has instead turned otherwhere. Lately I’ve been amazed with gadgets coming out of the toy industry. These guys are on a innovation spree. Of course they’re after my money but if they continue the way they’re being going lately I’m all for it.  Here are three toys that show [click to continue…]

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