Posted on 12/30/2013 4:48:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Can the Star Trek replicator be far behind?
"Anjan Contractors 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 Contractors company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer."
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