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Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek , from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea . And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation , just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3D printing, envisions a much more mundane—and ultimately more important—use for the technology. He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3D printer, and the earth’s 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store.
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5 Web Technologies and Trends to Watch in 2011
In 2010 we saw the rise of HTML5 , the maturation of CSS3 , the release of Rails 3.0 , and the widespread adoption of the @font-face selector (part of CSS3) — among other things . In short: it was a busy year for advancing web development technologies.
Email Scams Come To Facebook
It was only a matter of time: scammers have started targeting Facebook's new messaging system . I got my Facebook email account last Thursday. Early this morning, I received a notice that I'd won 950,000 South African Rand (about $135,000) in a contest held by the South African branch of Shell Petroleum.
