Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MAKE @ Engadget Expand 2014: Dovetailed – 3D Printed Fruit”.
Hi, i’m matt at gadget expand i’m here with gabriel gabriel. What are you showing here? It looks like a 3d printer, but it’s not well. It is a kind of very specialized 3d printer. So what we’ve got here is a machine that turns fruit juice into fruit. Okay, so you can give it raspberry juice and tell it to build something that looks a lot like a raspberry and it feels like it. So it’s made of little droplets that are liquid, but each is surrounded by a very thin gel membrane.
So when you bite into these things, they pop and they release their juice, but what’s really cool is instead of just reconstructing these old-fashioned, like tree-grown fruits like raspberries, you can do things that have never existed before so uh we’ve made the tastiest thing we’ve made. I think is the honey, berry? Okay, so it’s something that feels a lot like a blackberry. You pop it in your mouth, but when you bite into it, it’s like having a spoonful of honey and there’s all sorts of crazy things you can do. You can do combinations, so you can have a strawberry with cream incorporated into the structure to have strawberries and cream. We’Ve made a wasabi worm to go on top of some nigiri sushi uh little vanilla, berries to go on top of muffins and so on. So people can choose not only the taste of it but how it looks yeah absolutely so you can personalize the shape of it, the taste of each droplet and, more importantly, the texture. So you can give texture to anything even pure water, it’s possible to make.
You know totally calorific uncalorific waterberries and you can make it very soft, like a jam or very crisp like a kind of uh like a grape, and did this start off as like a diy project or is this? Is this? How did it get started? Uh? That’S a good question so um my background, i’m the chief investor at dovetailed and my background is in biological physics and a few years ago i developed a 3d printer that made mimics of synthetic tissues, so it uh made things that behaved a lot like tissues and Could play the same tricks but from purified ingredients, and it turns out that those structures looked delicious. They looked like little fruits, so what we’ve done is adapted technology uh, i assure you, we’ve changed all of the ingredients and now we’ve made these little edible structures, and so at the moment it’s very much in the prototype stage and we’re looking to commercialize it soon. Great thank you. They do look delicious.
I can’t wait to try one thanks again. You .