MIT’s Digital Food Printer Could Create Nutritious Meals

I would question whether this could be news.

It's not a product. It's not even a prototype. They don't even know how to build the thing. It's just an idea, like my time-machine or my warp-drive. It has the benefit of a nice 3D model though...

But that too doesn't look very practical either...

This is a 3D printer that uses sugar. It's not nutritious but at least it's real.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

Yuck. Seems like a step in the wrong direction as far as food goes. The genesis of our current health problems as a nation can be mostly traced to eating too much processed food. Seems like this would exacerbate the problem to the extreme. High Fructose Corn Syrup isn't healthy no matter what the shape.

Seems cool, but still a long way from a replicator that can brew me a cup of hot Earl Grey.

This doesn't look like it would create many dishes of the sort most of us would consider meals. It looks more like something for prototyping highly-processed junk foods.

...so can plants and animals!