Hershey Signs Deal to Develop 3D Chocolate Printers

January 18, 2014 // 2:18 pm

3D Printers have become quite the popular gadget nowadays with the machines looking past plastics and diving into the food world. From sour candies to pizzas 3D Systems has got a leg up on the competition with their ChefJet printers. The company debuted the kitchen-ready ChefJet a…

The Wonderbag May Soon Replace Your Beloved Slow Cooker

January 4, 2014 // 11:31 am

Crock Pots may soon have some competition in the slow cooking game thanks to Wonderbag. The cleverly named invention is indeed a wonder as its insulated design allows food to safely continue cooking without the need for additional energy. The process is extremely easy and also helps alleviate that…

Bodoki Cutting Board Will Solve All Our First World Food Prep Problems

December 28, 2013 // 4:33 pm

Cutting boards can be such a pain sometimes. You have to wash the whole damn thing to avoid cross contamination, they don’t clean themselves when juices get everywhere and you have to remember which side’s for meat and which side is for product. Lame.

Lucky for us a…

What a Pizza Illuminati iPhone Case Looks Like

October 25, 2013 // 6:00 am

Oozing cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms and olives just waiting to be taken a bite of? Is it a pizza, or is it the symbol of the all-knowing secret society known as the Pizza Illuminati? The iPhone snap case, for both iPhone 4 and 5, sports a cheesy unique take on…

Reverse Microwave Chills Beer In 45 Seconds

October 24, 2013 // 4:23 am

Microwaves are handy little units when we want to heat food or drinks up quickly. However, never before has there been a gadget that does just the opposite — cooling without the long wait. That is, until now.

A product of Enviro-Cool Limited, V-Tex is an environmentally-friendly, efficient system…

Spin Chill Your Way to a Frosty Beer in Minutes

October 12, 2013 // 12:48 pm

Warm beer got you down? If only there were a more efficient way to chill your beer without having to wait …enter Spin Chill.

Ty Parker and Trevor Abbott, a pair of young mechanical engineers, were looking for a way to alleviate warm beer syndrome when they were inspired…

Clothing Camera Calculates Calories Based on Photos of Food

October 6, 2013 // 6:00 am

It seems like we’re constantly being bombarded by ways to eat better and resist the urge to binge on stuff like Oreo cookie butter. Now, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are in the process of developing clothing cameras that could help with portion control by analyzing the food…

Meat Advertising May Lead to Printed Pork Chops

September 30, 2013 // 9:19 am

For IDEO’s WebDev101 sessions, designer Ivy Hu experimented with laser-cutting to make posters on unconventional objects: like meat.  Yes, your steak might soon be full of advertiser’s messages, your burgers emblazoned with logos, your pork chops printed with fonts.

Hu created a laser-etched meat poster containing…