[766] in Humor
HUMOR: ...like a Xerox for food
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Mar 14 16:56:33 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:50:43 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:19:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: joeha@microsoft.com
WhiteBoard News for March 13, 1995
This item comes by way of Matthew Johnston:
Los Angeles, California:
"It's like a Xerox machine for food," says California inventor John Kitos
of his creation "Decorate." The machine scans color images and paints
them on white frosted cakes with near-photographic quality resolution.
Decorate, approximately $18,000, is based on a 386 computer, a color
scanner, and a custom painting unit that squirts edible food dye. The
painting unit is "halfway between an inkjet printer and an air brush,"
Kitos explains. Refill cartridges, holding enough dye for about 40 cakes,
cost approximately $40.
And cake isn't the only thing Decorate can paint. Any food with a flat
surface will serve as a canvas.
