Friday 20 February 2015

All the talk about the world's first 3D-printed selfie pancake is half-baked

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When I heard about 3D-printed selfie pancakes, I thought we were one step closer to the dream of an all-selfie breakfast.

The UK research, design and development house Kinneir Dufort announced the foodie breakthrough earlier this week, following in the steps of the selfie toaster.

In a release, the company detailed a process that used digital imaging, face tracking and recognition software, a 3D printer filled with pancake batter and a griddle to print (and cook) a shape emulating the face of James Torbett, a senior electronic designer. We learned, in mouth-watering detail, how cooking instructions applied to a computer-guided 3D printer (batter was cooked longer for darker tones, and vice versa). The result, as seen above, was a pancake featuring a nearly perfect rendition of the original phototgraph. Or so it seemed. Read more...

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