Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor received a $125,000 grant from NASA to build a prototype 3-D printer capable of creating food.
Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor envisions a day when every kitchen has a 3-D printer capable of printing food that's "synthesized one layer at a time from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store," Quartz reported.
This vision would mean the end of food waste, because the cartridges' shelf live would be up to 30 years, and could also be used to print pizza for astronauts on long-distant space missions.
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