Edible holograms could someday decorate foods
Holograms are everywhere, from driver's licenses to credit cards to product packaging. And now, edible holograms could someday enhance foods. Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have developed a laser-based method to print nanostructured holograms on d.....»»
Camille Walala creates pop-up Supermarket food store at the Design Museum
Designer Camille Walala has turned the London Design Museum's shop into a pop-up supermarket selling artist-designed foods. Read more Designer Camille Walala has turned the London Design Museum's shop into a pop-up supermarket selling ar.....»»
Gwyneth Paltrow invests in The Expert, a video marketplace for high-end interior designers
The pandemic-induced lockdowns halted many a home decoration project, but the irony was that our homes became even more important. But where to get ideas to decorate? Home decor experts could no longer visit. Now an LA-based startup is addressing thi.....»»
Cultivating matsutake, valuable edible fungi
Costing anywhere from 15 to 70 dollars per mushroom depending on the quality, matsutake mushrooms are some of the most valuable edible fungi in the world. Revered for their delicate scent, matsutake mushrooms are cooked in rice or soups as an Autumn.....»»
Boasting menus from chefs at French Laundry, vegetarian mealkit startup Simple Feast hits the U.S.
Offering a respite from processed foods for the richest 20% of Americans, Simple Feast has landed on U.S. shores with a mission to expand its presence on the back of $45 million in financing from investors. The European startup is looking to take a p.....»»
Impossible Foods In Talks To Go Public
According to Reuters, Impossible Foods is preparing for a public listing which could value the U.S. plant-based burger maker at around $10 billion or more. From the report: This would be substantially more than the $4 billion the company was worth in.....»»
Smugglers transported 300 GPUs in a Mission Impossible-style speed boat chase
Hong Kong Customs met a group of smugglers outside the airport, taking up to 300 Nvidia GPUs alongside smartphones, exotic foods, and system RAM......»»
Separating beer waste into proteins for foods, and fiber for biofuels
Home brewing enthusiasts and major manufacturers alike experience the same result of the beer-making process: mounds of leftover grain. Once all the flavor has been extracted from barley and other grains, what's left is a protein- and fiber-rich powd.....»»
Keeping it fresh: New AI-based strategy can assess the freshness of beef samples
Although beef is one of the most consumed foods around the world, eating it when it's past its prime is not only unsavory, but also poses some serious health risks. Unfortunately, available methods to check for beef freshness have various disadvantag.....»»
Chocolate"s secret ingredient is the fermenting microbes that make it taste so good
Whether baked as chips into a cookie, melted into a sweet warm drink or molded into the shape of a smiling bunny, chocolate is one of the world's most universally consumed foods......»»
This room-sized ‘hologram’ display generates enormous 3D images
Most 'holograms' that you see online aren't holograms at all -- they're visual tricks that only appear to be 3D. This one, however, is the real deal......»»
Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat
Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance that may accelerate the development of cultured meat, acco.....»»
The coolest waffle makers for 2021
We can all agree that waffles are some of the best of the breakfast foods, but these savory circles can get a little boring. Here are some unique waffle makers......»»
Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-processed foods
Bronze Age mining sites relied on outside sources to deliver pre-processed food to sustain the community, according to a study published March 24, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andreas Heiss of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and colle.....»»
Scientists created edible films for food packaging
An international group of scientists from India and Russia has created edible food films for packaging fruits, vegetables, poultry, meat, and seafood. Films consist of natural ingredients, they are safe for health and the environment. In addition, fi.....»»
Amazon was supposed to kill Instacart. Instead Instacart became a mini-Amazon
When Amazon bought Whole Foods in 2017, the outlook appeared bleak for Instacart. Four years later, Instacart increasingly resembles Amazon, with hundreds of thousands of workers, deliveries that range from food to office supplies, and reported inter.....»»
Study examines molecular basis for why wine goes so well with fatty foods
Tannins interact at molecular level with fat globules in cheeses, meats, and oils. Enlarge / The traditional cheese and charcuterie board is generally considered an excellent pairing for a classic bold red wine. A new study finds that the secret.....»»
Deep Learning Enables Real-Time 3D Holograms On a Smartphone
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Now researchers at MIT have developed a new way to produce holograms nearly instantly -- a deep-learning based method so efficient, it can generate holograms on a laptop in a blink of an eye. Th.....»»
Deep Learning Enables Real-Time 3D Holograms On a Smartphone
New AI technique can rapidly generate holograms with less than 1 megabyte of memory Using artificial intelligence, scientists can now rapidly generate photorealistic color 3D holograms even on a smartphone. And according to a new study, th.....»»
Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time
Despite years of hype, virtual reality headsets have yet to topple TV or computer screens as the go-to devices for video viewing. One reason: VR can make users feel sick. Nausea and eye strain can result because VR creates an illusion of 3D viewing a.....»»
The gut mycobiome influences the metabolism of processed foods
Studies of the microbiome in the human gut have largely overlooked non-bacterial microbes: viruses, protists, archaea and fungi. Now research in mice points to a significant role for fungi, called the mycobiome, in the intestine......»»