Design and manufacture of edible microfluidic logic gates

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48 points·PaulHoule··16 comments

Among the various types of green materials, edible materials offer robots the potential of being consumed by means of deployable robots to nourish endangered animals in nature and interactive robotic cuisines for recreational dining experience.

Slightly late April Fools?

We're thrilled that you have found a liking to our Starbucks SmartCarrotCake (tm) carrot cake. To continue your eating experience, simply download our companion app and follow the on-screen instructions to register an account!

»Please make sure to unlock the "non-deadly" option before consumption«

Or Keurig coffee grounds that will refuse to brew outside of a Keurig 3.0 unit.

Either way it's certainly an idea ripe for text-to-image.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son#/me...

Goya got there first

And Douglas Adams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLy27bK-wU

Yikes, trigger warning on that image. If you can't read the full URL, it's "Saturn Devouring His Son".

Could have been generated by a LLM?

I think I am gonna write a LLM bot that comments on anything if it has been generated by LLMs.

>> We validate the proposed design with the production of a functional NOT gate a

Packaging includes the label: Do NOT eat.

New meaning for the term "Not edible"

NOT, edible

We're sick of melody pops; kids today just aren't creative enough to use them. The time has come for candy that can play its own themesong.

What we want is a circuit that gobbles up all the calories after ingestion, then leaves the body.

So... neurons?

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