It’s easy enough to embrace 3D printing technology when it’s doing something cool like drawing stuff in mid-air or making adorable prosthetic limbs for injured animals…but eating 3D printed food? That seems a little out there for most people. A company called Dovetailed aims to make it much more mainstream by putting 3D printed fruits into kitchens around the world.

The company’s 3D fruit printer actually uses technology that has been around for quite a while: spherification. The process, invented in the 1950s, basically takes regular liquids and encloses them in an edible outer membrane. Dovetailed has been working with Microsoft to create their proprietary 3D printer, which they unveiled at the Tech Food Hack of 2014 in Cambridge, UK.

According to Dovetailed, the machine can print any real-life fruit – the flavor, size and shape of the “fruits” are fully customizable. This means that you can not only print apples and bananas, but customize your fruit flavors to create something completely new. As cool as the idea is, the process begs the question: how healthy can these fruit creations really be if they’re made of juice, missing the fiber and vital nutrients of real, fresh, natural fruit?

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That old potato battery experiment from your seventh-grade science class sure was a boring one. Then again, so are most to a twelve-year-old. Simply put, an electrical current is produced when opposite sides of a potato are impaled with a galvanized nail and copper wire. A Bangor, Maine-based artist sees it as much more than that.

“The utter simplicity of this electrical phenomenon is endlessly fascinating for me,” artist Caleb Charland said. He used this idea for his photography series ‘Back to Light’. In the collection, various fruits and vegetables provide the current of electricity for the light source in his long exposure photographs.

The fruits or vegetables act as working batteries, powering small light bulbs that illuminate just enough for the pictures. The effect is an eerie one, as just enough of the dim light surrounds the produce to create a ghostly glow.

Charland went on to express a lofty goal for the series. “My hope is that these photographs function as micro utopias by suggesting and illustrating the endless possibilities of alternative and sustainable energy production.”

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