Racecarlock said:
https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=webhp&source=hp&q=%223d+printed+food%22
Sure, they're not that advanced yet because they're basically version 1.0 .
But guys, we have replicators. From star trek. This is amazing.
sorry to be a buzz kill, but it really isn't, it's a cool food printer sure but just that isn't a replicator
it's cool but it doesn't have.. well any of the features a replicator does it can't recycle it can't make anything instantly it can't make different foods, it can't make objects other than food
and it can't turn energy into matter, and.. that's really the main issue! the point of treklore replicators was energy = anything.
if a food printer is a replicator, then well vending machines have been doing the same for generations really.
the food exists somewhere and it gets piped to you 'by some means'